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Seven cloud-computing security risks

Cloud computing is picking up traction with businesses, but before you jump into the cloud, you should know the unique security risks it entails

Multiple Experts Try Defining "Cloud Computing"

jg21 writes "Even though IBM's Irving Wladawsky Berger reports a leading analyst as having said recently that 'There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud computing is,' here are no fewer than twenty attempts at a definition of the infrastructural paradigm shift that is sweeping across the Enterprise IT world — some of them really quite good. From the article: 'Cloud computing is...the user-friendly version of grid computing.' (Trevor Doerksen) and 'Cloud computing really is accessing resources and services needed to perform functions with dynamically changing needs. An application or service developer requests access from the cloud rather than a specific endpoint or named resource.' (Kevin Hartig)"

Patent office puts hold on 'Cloud Computing' Trademark

In the race to build out the cloud infrastructure and utility computing, Dell attempted to trademark the term cloud computing. But now Dell's application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is on hold pending a review. When it comes to the cloud and utility computing, Dell, IBM, HP, Yahoo, Google and Amazon.com are all competing for dominance.

Cloud Computing: AT&T Joins Google, IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Intel, Dell and HP

In a May 2008 report, Merrill Lynch estimated that 12% of the worldwide software market would start using cloud technology in the next 5 years and that the annual revenue for cloud computing will increase to $95 billion in the same period. Now, according to the Wall Street Journal, AT&T has become the latest company to invest in cloud computing.

Secure Computing Positioned as "Top Player" in Radicati Group's Corporate Web Security Market Quadrant

Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security company, today announced that its Secure Web (formerly Webwasher®) has been positioned as a "Top Player" in The Radicati Group's new market brief, "Corporate Web Security - Market Quadrant 2008." Published in June 2008, the brief evaluates nine vendors and focuses only on the Corporate Web Security segment of the Security Market, which according to the report, is expected to grow in value from $531 million in 2008 to $1.1 billion by 2012. The full market brief is available for review at www.securecomputing.com.

Procter and Gamble Selects IBM Internet Security Systems to Help Amplify Its Threat Protection, Simplify Its Security

ARMONK, NY, Aug 29 (MARKET WIRE) -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Procter and Gamble (NYSE: PG) has selected products and services from IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division to expand its global cyber-security initiative. The agreement will strengthen Procter and Gamble's (P&G) threat protection arsenal by streamlining the management of its layered security tools and ultimately can help deliver substantial savings in administrative costs. This simplified security approach will streamline the management and help increase the efficiency of P&G's cyber-security project. First developed in 2005, P&G pioneered a layered, preventative network protection and vulnerability assessment project to mitigate and eliminate major costly internal vulnerabilities.

IT Jobs To Drop In 2009

ruphus13 writes "A new Goldman Sachs IT report recently released states that IT jobs will be dramatically reduced in 2009, starting with contract and offshore developers. From the article: 'Sharp reductions likely in contract staff, professional services and hardware, and almost no investment in cloud computing.' The article goes on to say 'The CIOs indicated that server virtualization and server consolidation are their No. 1 and No. 2 priorities. Following these two are cost-cutting, application integration, and data center consolidation. At the bottom of the list of IT priorities are grid computing, open-source software, content management and cloud computing (called on-demand/utility computing in the survey) — less than 2% of the respondents said cloud computing was a priority.

Cloud Computing - Yahoo, HP & Intel Embark on Joint Cloud Research

Yahoo, HP and Intel are going to do cloud research together using a global, multi-data center, open source Cloud Computing Test

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Open source fuels growth of cloud computing, SaaS

Open source software is critical to the growth of both software-as-a-service and cloud computing, and cloud-based computing in turn is making it easier for open source vendors to lower costs, the analyst firm Saugatuck says in a new research note.

Open source fuels growth of cloud computing, SaaS

Open source software is critical to the growth of both software-as-a-service and cloud computing, and cloud-based computing in turn is making it easier for open source vendors to lower costs, the analyst firm Saugatuck says in a new research note.

Open source fuels growth of cloud computing, SaaS

Open source software is critical to the growth of both software-as-a-service and cloud computing, and cloud-based computing in turn is making it easier for open source vendors to lower costs, the analyst firm Saugatuck says in a new research note.

Open source fuels growth of cloud computing, software-as-a-service

Open source software is critical to the growth of both software-as-a-service and cloud computing, and cloud-based computing in turn is making it easier for open source vendors to lower costs, the analyst firm Saugatuck says in a new research note.

Cloud Computing - Univa UD Extends UniCluster to Amazon EC2 Cloud

Univa UD announced the publication of a white paper and supporting tools that documents the process of implementing its open source UniCluster product in Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) web service.

Oracle Label Security for Privacy and Compliance

Oracle Label Security helps organizations address security and compliance requirements using sensitivity labels such as confidential and sensitive. Sensitivity labels can be assigned to users in the form of label authorizations and associated with operations and objects inside the database using data labels. Label authorizations provide tremendous flexibility in making access control decisions and enforcing separation of duty. Oracle Label Security can be used to address numerous operational issues related to security, compliance and privacy. Used with Oracle Database Vault, Oracle Label Security label authorizations are factors that control access to applications, databases and data. Label authorizations can be used in conjunction with virtual private database to mask out PII data.

Oracle Label Security for Privacy and Compliance

Oracle Label Security helps organizations address security and compliance requirements using sensitivity labels such as confidential and sensitive. Sensitivity labels can be assigned to users in the form of label authorizations and associated with operations and objects inside the database using data labels. Label authorizations provide tremendous flexibility in making access control decisions and enforcing separation of duty. Oracle Label Security can be used to address numerous operational issues related to security, compliance and privacy. Used with Oracle Database Vault, Oracle Label Security label authorizations are factors that control access to applications, databases and data. Label authorizations can be used in conjunction with virtual private database to mask out PII data.

Oracle Label Security for Privacy and Compliance

Oracle Label Security helps organizations address security and compliance requirements using sensitivity labels such as confidential and sensitive. Sensitivity labels can be assigned to users in the form of label authorizations and associated with operations and objects inside the database using data labels. Label authorizations provide tremendous flexibility in making access control decisions and enforcing separation of duty. Oracle Label Security can be used to address numerous operational issues related to security, compliance and privacy. Used with Oracle Database Vault, Oracle Label Security label authorizations are factors that control access to applications, databases and data. Label authorizations can be used in conjunction with virtual private database to mask out PII data.

Secure Mobile Computing: Using Two-factor Authentication with VPNs and Disk Encryption

Organizations of all types and sizes increasingly realize that mobile computing is critical to success. These organizations are giving their mobile users full access to the enterprise network, data, and applications through virtual private networks (VPNs.) Mobile users are also taking large amounts of sensitive corporate data on the road stored on their laptop hard drive, many of which hold up to 200 gigabytes. As a result, while mobile computing offers organizations many competitive advantages, it also entails significant security risks to corporate networks and sensitive corporate data. Indeed, the incidence of security breaches due to unauthorized access to the VPN and theft of laptop devices has skyrocketed, leading to high costs, lost competitive advantage, non-compliance with data privacy regulations, and tarnished reputations.

Secure Mobile Computing: Using Two-factor Authentication with VPNs and Disk Encryption

Organizations of all types and sizes increasingly realize that mobile computing is critical to success. These organizations are giving their mobile users full access to the enterprise network, data, and applications through virtual private networks (VPNs.) Mobile users are also taking large amounts of sensitive corporate data on the road stored on their laptop hard drive, many of which hold up to 200 gigabytes. As a result, while mobile computing offers organizations many competitive advantages, it also entails significant security risks to corporate networks and sensitive corporate data. Indeed, the incidence of security breaches due to unauthorized access to the VPN and theft of laptop devices has skyrocketed, leading to high costs, lost competitive advantage, non-compliance with data privacy regulations, and tarnished reputations.

Secure Mobile Computing: Using Two-factor Authentication with VPNs and Disk Encryption

Organizations of all types and sizes increasingly realize that mobile computing is critical to success. These organizations are giving their mobile users full access to the enterprise network, data, and applications through virtual private networks (VPNs.) Mobile users are also taking large amounts of sensitive corporate data on the road stored on their laptop hard drive, many of which hold up to 200 gigabytes. As a result, while mobile computing offers organizations many competitive advantages, it also entails significant security risks to corporate networks and sensitive corporate data. Indeed, the incidence of security breaches due to unauthorized access to the VPN and theft of laptop devices has skyrocketed, leading to high costs, lost competitive advantage, non-compliance with data privacy regulations, and tarnished reputations.

Secure Mobile Computing: Using Two-factor Authentication with VPNs and Disk Encryption

Organizations of all types and sizes increasingly realize that mobile computing is critical to success. These organizations are giving their mobile users full access to the enterprise network, data, and applications through virtual private networks (VPNs.) Mobile users are also taking large amounts of sensitive corporate data on the road stored on their laptop hard drive, many of which hold up to 200 gigabytes. As a result, while mobile computing offers organizations many competitive advantages, it also entails significant security risks to corporate networks and sensitive corporate data. Indeed, the incidence of security breaches due to unauthorized access to the VPN and theft of laptop devices has skyrocketed, leading to high costs, lost competitive advantage, non-compliance with data privacy regulations, and tarnished reputations.

Are IT Security Professionals Less Happy?

zentanu writes "It's said that if you want to be happy, be a gardener. What about IT security professionals? Having worked as an IT security consultant for several years, I now wonder if my job has a negative influence on my happiness, because it constantly teaches me to focus on the negative side of life: I always have to think about risks and identify all sorts of things that could go wrong. As an auditor I search for errors that others have made and haughtily tell them. As a penetraion tester I break systems that system engineers and administrators have laboriously built. I assume inside threats and have to be professionally suspicious. The security mindset surely helps me in my job, but is it good for me on the long run? What kind of influence has being an IT security professional had on your general attitude towards life? What helps

The Ideal, Non-Proprietary Cloud

jg21 writes "As previously discussed on Slashdot, the new tendency to speak of 'The Cloud' or 'Cloud Computing' often seems to generate more heat than light, but one familiar industry fault line is becoming clear — those who believe clouds can be proprietary vs. those who believe they should be free. One CEO who sides with open clouds in order that companies can pick and choose from vendors depending on precisely what they need has written a detailed article in which he outlines how, in his opinion, Platform-as-a-Service should work. He identifies nine features of 'an ideal PaaS cloud' including the requirement that 'Developers should be able to interact with the cloud computer, to do business with it, without having to get on the phone with a sales person, or submit a help ticket.

Two Black Hat Talks On Apple Security Cancelled

An anonymous reader writes "Two separate Apple security talks have been nixed at the last minute from next week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. The Washington Post's Security Fix blog reports that Apple researcher Charles Edge was to present on flaws in Apple's FileVault encryption plan, but asked Black Hat to cancel the talk, citing confidentiality agreements with Apple. Then on Friday, Apple pulled its security engineering team out of a planned public discussion on the company's security practices — which would have been a first for Apple. 'Marketing got wind of it, and nobody at Apple is ever allowed to speak publicly about anything without marketing approval,' a Black Hat spokesman said."

More customers are shopping for security software online

A recent report from The NPD Group revealed some interesting statistics about consumers' perceptions and awareness of security software products. Among the findings: the majority of security software purchases occur on the Internet, free security software downloads are competing directly with paid security software, and the biggest perceived household security threat is viruses.

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