Andreas Marx and Maik Morgenstern presented their paper “Why in-the-cloud scanning is not a solution” at the recent Virus Bulletin 2009 conference. The paper provided a list of the shortcomings of cloud-based security. Over the past year or so there have been several discussions on this topic, but Marx and Morgenstern have done a good…
Read MoreAmazon EC2 customers recently suffered from a concerted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that caused some consternation for the web-based code hosting service Bitbucket (news courtesy of my favorite IT tabloid, The Register). An unfortunate fact of life about the massive DDoS such as Bitbucket appears to have suffered is that there is no…
Read MoreEvery day brings more headlines about social networking, cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Each of these fast growth areas shares an important element in common – they rely on a movement of data from private computers into the public cloud. The theory goes that this data is protected by the service provider…
Read MoreThe US Federal Government recently announced its apps.gov portal for applications. This CNet News article provides a summary of what was announced by Federal CIO Vivek Kundra. apps.gov is a nice storefront featuring productivity applications to be used on non-sensitive data, and as such this announcement did not make big waves in the security community. …
Read MoreIt’s been almost four years ago since I started to look at the SaaS security model for Trend Micro. To be honest, being a software company, it was very hard getting anybody’s attention. However, the team persisted and sometimes learnt the hard way around what it takes to deliver high availability SaaS applications. Software as…
Read MoreBrightTalk is hosting a Cloud Security Summit on September 30. At this summit, industry leaders will dive into the different security options available across multiple cloud architectures, and case studies and association presentations will further illustrate the security issues facing the cloud today. Trend Micro’s CTO, Raimund Genes, will present “The Threat Cloud Landscape” discussing…
Read MoreThe topic of cloud computing is very hot these days. The advances in hardware, software and networking technologies have made the dream of computing as a utility service for cost-conscious companies or ordinary individuals a reality. Under this new paradigm, it’s possible to rent by the hour to take advantage of cloud computing. The public…
Read MoreCloud computing is the buzzword in the computing industry, but it can mean many things to many people. Trend Micro is challenged to use a common vocabulary to describe the various facets of cloud computing. This post articulates the various aspects of cloud computing so we can speak a similar language. It is intended to…
Read MoreWhile Companies are still trying to figure out how the cloud will benefit them, cybercriminals have already figured it out. They managed to infect so many computers that they have more computing power at their fingertips than all the world’s supercomputers combined. Do they use it as a weapon of mass distruction? No, and why…
Read MoreInformation technology is a great invention and giant step for humankind, almost as much the invention of paper and pen, because it enables the freedom and convenience of information sharing, which promotes and enhances the opportunity to learn, grow and prosper no matter where we are born and how we are raised (both for businesses…
Read More
