Keeping IT systems secure and running within regulatory compliance mandates, especially for mid-sized and even small businesses, seems next to impossible. There are many reasons for this — but fortunately, several recent technological trends show that it doesn’t have to be this way.
This paper covers how small and medium-sized organizations can manage their IT [...]
Researchers at Stach & Liu, a security consulting firm, have advised organizations against storing critical information on the public cloud until there are better intrusion detection systems available for cloud services, the Dark Reading website reports.
The firm made the recommendation after discovering that access codes and passwords to thousands of public cloud services could be [...]
IT Best Practices: The IT organization is undergoing rapid change. Changes like virtualization and consumerization present new opportunities for business, and new challenges for IT. Cloud computing shifts IT to more of a creator and distributor of services, but brings with it increased security concerns. In this podcast, Alan Ross, who leads the Security Architecture [...]
The Windows Intune cloud service helps you centrally manage and secure your PCs through a simple web-based console, whether your IT staff or end users are in the main office, at a branch office, or on the road.
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Windows Intune simplifies and helps businesses manage [...]
Visibility + Control = Trust
Federal Cloud Computing Strategy: Cloud First Policy “This policy is intended to accelerate the pace at which the government will realize the value of cloud computing by requiring agencies to evaluate safe, secure cloud computing options before making any new investments.”
Titles on How to Secure the Cloud ….
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By NICK CLAYTON – WSJ.com
As the much-hyped next big thing in information technology, the cloud in cloud computing seems almost too apt as a metaphor. Constantly moving and changing, impossible to pin down and the closer it gets, the harder it is to distinguish from fog.
It has divided opinion. On one side are those who [...]
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Above the Clouds: Managing Risk in the World of Cloud Computing
By Dick Weisinger
Security usually tops the lists of concerns that people have about the cloud. And now it seems like there is good reason. On a recent survey of 100 “elite” hackers at the 2010 Defcon conferenece, 96 of them [...]
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Cloud computing security risks are sometimes considered greater than cloud’s rewards. The industry is working to change that, and so can you.
By James A. Martin
Cloud computing offers many compelling benefits to organizations, such as reduced capital and operating costs and as-needed scalability. So why aren’t more businesses taking advantage of the on-demand computing [...]
What is Cloud Computing and does it provide more protection to your business?
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Cloud Computing will bring many benefits to organisations, some of which include reducing operating costs, reducing power consumption and freeing you up to focus on your core business.
The concept of shifting computing to a shared service provider [...]
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Cloud Security and Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance
The ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) released the Cloud Computing Risk Assessment document.
The document does well by including a focus on SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) because, as the report says, “Given the reduced cost and flexibility it brings, [...]
