Presentation: Cloud Security Management – Overview and Challenges
What’s your first priority cloud security concern ? From an attacker’s perspective, cloud providers aggregate access to many victims’ data into a single point of entry. As the cloud environments become more and more popular, they will increasingly become the focus of attacks. Some organizations think that liability can be outsourced, but no, it cannot! [...]
Dropbox Shows Why We Can’t Have The Cloud The Way We Imagined
For the past few weeks, Tech Media is buzzing with discussions on Dropbox (see previous CloudAve coverage) security. Dropbox from their modest beginnings have grown big with 25 Million users. Recently, a security engineer Derek Newton exposed a serious security issue with them where they store the machine hash in an unencrypted form in any machine [...]
Now You Can Get Your Google Apps Data Backed Up for Free. Startup Econ 101: When Giving it Away is a Good Deal.
Ouch that’s a longish title. OK, I admit, I am tired, could not decide between two messages and ended up combining them. Well, let’s see the messages. The Art of Pricing The other day I got into a tweet convo with a Startup Entrepreneur whose product I found interesting, at least at first glance. But [...]
Cloud Security Needs A Rethink But The Evolution Will Be Slow
Image via Wikipedia Recently, Andreas M. Antonopoulos wrote an informative piece on Computer World about Cloud Security. In his post, he clearly outlines the mental shift needed on Cloud Security so that auditors and regulators are convinced about the issues of security and compliance. The crucial takeaway from his post is the following we are rapidly moving [...]
Do You Want to Pay Ransom for Your Data?
I saw this ad on Craigslist: Stolen White MacBook – $1000 (berkeley) Date: 2009-07-29, 1:57AM PDT Reply to: sale-wuutq-1294683068@craigslist.org White MacBook stolen by two African American men near North Berkeley BART at 11:30 PM July 28, 2009. Willing to pay $1000 for the stolen laptop no questions asked as long as information is provided letting [...]
SaaS and Religion: the Tenancy Debates. Do Customers Care?
(Warning: this is a long post. Only read it when sitting in a comfortable chair. Or a pool lounge, holding your CrunchPad.) Two recent posts by Enterprise Social Software vendors Jive and Atlassian set up a huge debate amongst my fellow Enterprise Irregulars. Here’s the money-quote from Jive: It’s not so long ago that it [...]
Rudder’s Financial Data Breach is NOT a SaaS Failure
Wow, what a day. I was halfway through writing a post inspired by Mint’s intent to sell aggregate, anonymized customer data – and it was meant to be a positive post, pointing out the business model potential in SaaS. But somehow this message doesn’t feel right on the day people are up in arms finding [...]
Questions To Ask Before Trusting a Cloud Vendor
Many consumers and businesses are flocking to cloud computing as they see an opportunity to compete on equal footing with well established firms with big IT infrastructure. Even though there are apprehensions in the minds of clould computing customers, partly due to the myths promoted by some pundits and vendors whose core business is threatened [...]
