By Richard Medugno As a result of the recent Epsilon data breach, customers of US Bank, TiVo, Capital One, Dell, Best Buy, Disney Destinations, Visa Card, and Walgreens, to name a few, have had their email addresses compromised and have received warnings to be on the lookout for phishing attacks. Phishing attacks are criminal attempts…
Read MoreDespite the recent setback caused by the failure of Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service last week, forecast for the cloud looks favorable, according to a recent Forrester Research report. While the current size of the market – around $40.7 billion – is nothing to scoff at, the research firm projects monumental growth for the cloud…
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Speaking at a White House event, federal government chief information officer Vivek Kundra recently said the government has now met several of the goals laid out in the IT restructuring initiative in began last year.
Read MoreRecent technical difficulties experience by cloud computing giant Amazon have led some analysts to discuss issues surrounding the reliability and performance of cloud-based solutions. Despite this increased attention, however, some experts are claiming that cloud security will remain the most important issue for many considering cloud adoption. Amazon’s outage affected a number of popular websites,…
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A recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, an independent research firm that specializes in information and data security, suggests there may be significant differences of opinion between users and vendors when it comes to cloud computing security. The study, entitled Security of Cloud Computing Providers, surveyed 103 cloud computing service providers in the U.S….
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Speaking to a group of engineering students at the University of California, Berkley, this week, Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano asserted that security in cyber space can only be achieved through the combined effort of the private and public sectors. “All of us, from the most casual users to the most highly trained…
Read MoreLast Thursday, April 21, 2011 Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) had an outage that impacted multiple Availability Zones. Thursday morning, Amazon issued a status update indicating that the outage was based on problems with replication mirroring: “This re-mirroring created a shortage of capacity in one of the US-EAST-1 Availability Zones, which impacted new EBS volume creation as well as the pace with which we could re-mirror and recover affected EBS volumes. Additionally, one of our internal control planes for EBS has become inundated such that it’s difficult to create new EBS volumes and EBS backed instances.”
Read MoreThe security concerns around cloud computing are real, according to ShareFile CEO Jesse Lipson, but they may not be the same concerns foremost in the minds of IT professionals and corporate decision-makers. Data loss, Lipson writes in a guest article for Forbes, is one of the most common concerns about storing important information in…
Read MoreAs a growing number of companies, government agencies and other organizations migrate to the cloud, cloud computing security management has received increasing attention. According to a recent Fierce Government IT report, some cloud computing security experts believe that any network connected to the internet requires additional data protection attention, as cyber criminals develop new means…
Read MoreTo help businesses and consumers become more comfortable storing information in the cloud, the Cloud Security Alliance recently announced a partnership with the International Organization for Standardization to establish cloud security and privacy standards. Announced at the CSA Summit at Infosecurity Europe in London last week, the CSA said it will have a “key role…
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