What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success?
Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. Since I had a ringside seat to the company before it really existed all the way through the end I thought I’d […]
It’s Time For You To Make Security a Core Feature — Not a Tax
So many things have gotten better on the product side of SaaS in the past few years. Amazing tools, the evolution of AWS as “enterprise grade”, so many great things. One thing I am less impressed with though is the evolution of SaaS security — application-level security, in particular. Let me give you two recent […]
Technology and Business Speed has Changed–So Must Identity and Access Management
Compelled by competitive pressures and user demand, companies have embraced mobility and cloud. And even if companies haven’t embraced cloud, their employees have. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is now commonplace, and the average mobile worker carries an average of3.5 mobile devices, each accessing multiple applications that connect to protected corporate information, or that serve […]
We Got Hacked, Now What?
Hopefully you really have a good answer for this. Getting hacked is no longer a distant probability; it’s a harsh reality. The most recent incident was Evernote losing customer information including email addresses and passwords to a hacker. I’m an Evernote customer and I watched the drama unfold from the perspective of an end user. […]
Is security that complicated
I recently had to set up an account with a US Government web site. I had a dickens of a time picking a password. They had amazing rules: The first character needed to be a number. The password had to have at least 7 characters, but no more than 12. Only lower-case letters could be […]
Executive Order: Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Heck, we wouldn’t be bloggers, and we wouldn’t care about our industry, cloud or information security if we didn’t spend time reading this executive order and seeing what hidden neat treats there are in there. Overall I am impressed with this executive order as it looks like someone actually thought about it in the first […]
Kim Dot Com’s new Mega site has XSS Security Holes
Any new site, not just Mega is going to have security holes, and reports have surfaced in Twitter, Reddit, and over on ZDNet that Mega has a couple of persistent XSS security holes that are going to make users days a little bit harder. Beyond the crypto issues that you can read on ZDNet, persistent […]
Understanding Shodan HQ for hacking and cyber warfare
Understanding Shodan HQ for hacking and cyber warfare Shodan HQ is probably one of the more interesting web sites that few people know about. Shodan scans the internet looking for devices that people have left unsecured or with default if any login information. Sometimes a web site just makes you happy, and Shodan has shown […]
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! […]
AppSense Trying To Make Personal Clouds Enterprise Worthy
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 […]
Video: Cloud In The Eyes Of VCs
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 […]
Verizon Acquires CloudSwitch To Beef Up Terremark Enterprise Cloud
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 […]
What is Really Holding the Cloud Back?
As I was listening to speakers at Structure Conference this year, something caught my attention and changed my thinking on cloud priorities. When IT decision makers are asked to rate the top challenges for cloud adoption, security always rises to the top. Security, security, security. At Structure, I heard something slightly different from Microsoft’s Satya […]
Apigee Asks: Is Your API PCI Compliant?
Apigee (previous CloudAve coverage), the API management company formerly known as Sonoa Systems, yesterday launched PCI-Compliant API management solution in the cloud. As we move into an increasingly platform based world where APIs are the key, the next important issue we, as an industry, have to tackle is security. Already companies like Apigee, Mashery, etc […]
VMware Horizon App Manager – A Quick Analysis
Whether you want to call it consumerization of enterprises or democratization of IT, we know that it is happening already and no FUD can stop them anymore. Instead of fighting this process, today’s smart enterprises are embracing them by empowering their users to securely use SaaS and other consumer applications. VMware realized this trend and […]
