Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a non-profit industry organization that promotes the protection techniques in the cloud, has recently updated its list of the top threats of cloud in the report entitled “The Notorious Nine Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013”.
CSA indicates that the report reflects the consensus of the experts [...]
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Security and compliance concerns are still major stumbling blocks to cloud adoption. According to a study by security firm Lieberman Software, nearly 48% of members of teams in business fear of government and legal interference before putting sensitive data in the cloud.
This is a survey to close more than 300 [...]
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Cloud computing represents a major market growth potential. However, this potential can only be exploited if appropriate frameworks exist. The normalization and standardization of cloud computing are crucial in that respect.
Booz & Company recently released a paper on, “The Standardization Environment for Cloud Computing”, on the current normalization and [...]
Continue Reading →Cloud Security Alliance Congresses and Summits continue to be premier gathering for IT experts and executives for industry-specific case studies that will help attendees learn and leverage best practices used by their peers in moving to a secure cloud.
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, last week released a report of [...]
Continue Reading →The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released version 1.0 of the security guidance for critical areas of mobile computing. The guide details the various elements associated with mobile computing that corporations should consider and how to apply it in your business.
The document “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Mobile [...]
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More companies now use cloud technologies to reap the benefits, such as lower cost, higher efficiency and more flexibility. Often, however, lacks the understanding of security and privacy policies of their own systems and industry-specific regulations or legal framework.
To allow companies to test their cloud security knowledge, Microsoft allows companies to [...]
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The findings of a survey conducted jointly by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA show that government regulations, exit strategies and international data privacy dominate the top 10 areas where trust in the cloud is the lowest.
Studying Cloud Market Maturity conducted jointly between Continue Reading →
A few days ago, Cisco unveiled a set of security solutions designed to improve the robustness of data centers against the threats they constantly face while moving toward virtualized, more consolidated environments and allowing businesses to benefit from new cloud-based models.
The new set of security solutions released by Cisco extend the [...]
Continue Reading →The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced the creation of a Privacy Level Agreement (PLA) Working Group in the EU chaired by the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), to seek solutions to improve the security, development of cloud systems that respond to the challenges of cloud development [...]
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One of the main criticisms being levied at Cloud computing is its inherent security flaws. After all, the whole concept of cloud computing introduces possible security risks that are not present in conventional IT setups. However, a growing number of technologists are making the argument that clouds, contrary to popular belief, are [...]
Continue Reading →Small and Mid-sized Businesses (SMBs) are taking the advantages of cloud and anticipate the use of cloud technologies will increase the security of their operations, according to new research from Microsoft.
The study, carried out by Comscore and commissioned by Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Division found SMBs are finding that move to [...]
Continue Reading →The Cloud may be a unsafe place, especially when there are multiple entities running different (read – weird) kind of software and you don’t know what’s going on at different locations/ systems/ disks/ partitions etc. Since someone else is managing all this for you, your suspicion only goes up.
The number of [...]
Continue Reading →At the RSA conference this week, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) held a half-day summit which served as the venue for the global introduction of several research projects, including research on governance, cloud security reference architectures and cloud-specific computer security incident response [...]
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