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Top Cloud Computing Security Issues and Solutions

Top Cloud Computing Security Issues and Solutions

By Gilad Parann-Nissany on May 5, 2014

Businesses large and small are realizing the benefits that come with cloud computing.  The scalability that allows you to easily grow (or shrink) your operation, the agility that enables you to make quick changes, the cost-effectiveness that can save you money: the cloud seems like a no-brainer.  However, with increased cloud adoption rates come increased […]

Posted in Security, Your POV | Tagged cloud computing, cloud encryption, cloud security, data security best practices | 3 Responses

Thwarting the Mobile Data Security Threat

Thwarting the Mobile Data Security Threat

By Gilad Parann-Nissany on February 7, 2014

Mobile usage is up in the work force – and it is not about to go down. Check out these statistics: Mobile broadband subscribers are forecasted to grow dramatically from 1 billion in 2011 to over 5 billion globally in 2016. By 2015, more Americans will have mobile access to the internet than desktop PCs. […]

Posted in Security, Your POV | Tagged cloud encryption, cloud security, data security | 2 Responses

Stop Ignoring Terms and Conditions in the Cloud

Stop Ignoring Terms and Conditions in the Cloud

By Simon Bain on October 21, 2013

Check your T&C’s as you could be handing over your creative work for free.

Posted in Trends & Concepts, Your POV | Tagged Cloud Providers, cloud security, Contractual term, dropbox, Google Drive, intellectual property, Terms & Conditions | 1 Response

AppSense Trying To Make Personal Clouds Enterprise Worthy

AppSense Trying To Make Personal Clouds Enterprise Worthy

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 21, 2012

AppSense, the NewYork based company focussed on Virtualization solutions, today announced their research wing, AppSense Labs, focussed on bridging the gap between personal services and enterprise. They also announced their first product under AppSense Labs called DataLocker (iTunes link for iPad and iPhone). This got my attention for two reasons: As the so called consumerization […]

Posted in Security | Tagged appsense, briefs, cloud computing, cloud security, cloud storage, dropbox, enteprise, personal cloud, Security, sugarsync

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Video: Cloud In The Eyes Of VCs

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 2, 2011

From time to time, we post videos from different vendors on their take about cloud marketplace. Below is a video of Okta CEO, Todd McKinnon, talking to two of their VCs Ben Horowitz (from Andreessen Horowitz) and David Weiden (from Khosla Ventures) about their take on where cloud is heading. While we take pride in […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged cloud computing, cloud security, identity, okta, Security, VC, video | 1 Response

Verizon Acquires CloudSwitch To Beef Up Terremark Enterprise Cloud

Verizon Acquires CloudSwitch To Beef Up Terremark Enterprise Cloud

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 26, 2011

Verizon (previous CloudAve coverage) yesterday announced that they are acquiring CloudSwitch (previous CloudAve coverage), the Burlington based company founded in 2008 to make life easy for enterprises to extend their datacenter into the cloud, for an undisclosed sum. With this move, Verizon has made it even more clear that they are serious about the enterprise […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud security, Cloudswitch, iaas, infrastructure, Infrastructure services, insights, Security, terremark, verizon | 2 Responses

RSA Chief - Cloud Security Is Real And Virtualization Is The Silver Lining

RSA Chief – Cloud Security Is Real And Virtualization Is The Silver Lining

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 15, 2011

RSA 2011 conference is going on in San Francisco at this point of time and Cloud Computing is a hot topic again this year. In his keynote address, RSA executive chairman, Art Coviello, told the audience that Cloud Security is real and he argued that virtualization is the path to better cloud security and control. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged briefs, cloud computing, cloud security, rsa, RSA 2011, virtualization

Art Of Defence Goes Open Source

Art Of Defence Goes Open Source

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 15, 2011

Art of Defence (see previous CloudAve coverage), originally founded in Germany with offices at San Francisco, announced during the ongoing RSA conference that they are open sourcing the core of their distributed web application firewall (dWAF). The project called openWAF will help protect the web based applications in this cloud era. This is an interesting […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged application security, art of defence, briefs, cloud security, dwaf, open source, opensource, openwaf | 3 Responses

Research Report: Cloud Trends In 2011 And Beyond

Research Report: Cloud Trends In 2011 And Beyond

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 24, 2011

Abstract As we enter 2011, the expectations surrounding the growth of cloud based services are very high. In spite of the unwarranted hype and FUD surrounding the cloud based services in 2008 and 2009, the past year saw some level of maturity in both the cloud services itself and, also, in the discussions surrounding cloud […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2011, cloud computing, cloud security, cloud storage, federated clouds, iaas, paas, researchreports, saas, trends | 2 Responses

Symplified Closes Series B Round As It Gets Ready For The Enterprise Cloud Boom

Symplified Closes Series B Round As It Gets Ready For The Enterprise Cloud Boom

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 5, 2011

Image via CrunchBase Symplified, the Boulder based cloud security company, today announced that they have raised a Series B round of $9 Million funding. Symplified offers a comprehensive identity management suite consisting of Access Manager, Identity Manager and Single Sign-On. Also, their SinglePoint PaaS offering is suitable for enterprises to have a virtual identity infrastructure […]

Posted in Security | Tagged access management, briefs, cloud security, identity, Identity Management, symplified | 1 Response

CloudAudit Joins CSA

CloudAudit Joins CSA

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 19, 2010

CloudAudit, the organization whose goal is to provide a common interface and namespace that allows cloud computing providers to automate the Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance (A6) of their infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS), and application (SaaS) environments and allow authorized consumers of their services to do likewise via an open, extensible and secure interface and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Security | Tagged Alliance, cloud security, cloudaudit, cloudsecurityalliance, csa, csacloudauditalliance, iaas, identity, paas, saas | 2 Responses

Fraud Detection SaaS Vendor ThreatMetrix Gets Series C Funding

Fraud Detection SaaS Vendor ThreatMetrix Gets Series C Funding

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 5, 2010

ThreatMetrix, the California based SaaS security vendor offering fraud prevention solutions, announced that they have secured Series C round worth $12.1 Million led by Tenaya Capital. This additional funding will help the company expand their product offerings and will also help focus more on customer acquisition. This will also offer them the necessary leverage to […]

Posted in Security | Tagged cloud security, ecommerce, financing, fraud detection, funding, funding round, saas, Series C, threatmetrix, venture capital | 1 Response

Cloud Vendors Push US Congress For More Data Protection

Cloud Vendors Push US Congress For More Data Protection

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 26, 2010

One of the biggest concerns regarding Cloud Computing is about the privacy of data on third party servers. Along with data thefts that could happen due to bad security policies of the vendors, there is always a threat from overzealous governments trying to use their authority to take anyone’s data out from the third party […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged cloud privacy, cloud security, compliance, privacy, regulation, regulations, Security, US | 4 Responses

Cloud Computing Security One Year in the Cloud

Cloud Computing Security One Year in the Cloud

By Dan Morrill on September 14, 2010

Over the last year I have been working on a project for where I work to see just what the threat level was for systems in the “cloud”.

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, cloud computing, cloud security, Misc Technology, Prezi, research, risk, risk management, Security | 1 Response

Novell Announces The General Availability Of Its Cloud Security Service

Novell Announces The General Availability Of Its Cloud Security Service

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 25, 2010

Novell has been talking about cloud and cloud security for more than a year now and, slowly, we are getting a glimpse of where they are going. After realizing that Cloud has taken off in a big way, Novell has been trying to position themselves as a serious cloud player with a stronger emphasis on security. […]

Posted in Security | Tagged cloud computing, cloud security, Cloud Security Service, Enterprise, iaas, identity, Novell, paas, saas, Security, single signon | 1 Response

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