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Divide and Reduce Risk: Segregation of Duties in the Cloud

Posted by admin in Cloud-based Security, Privacy, Compliance and Identity, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Threats from the Cloud, Virtualization Sep 21st, 2010 | Comments Off
Divide and Reduce Risk: Segregation of Duties  in the Cloud   Author: Todd Thiemann   Plenty of regulatory regimes mandate that enterprises have a segregation of duties or separation of duties (we will use the terms interchangably in this post) as a required internal control mechanism. Separation of duties divides the responsibility of a critical task among different people and provides “checks and balances” against fraud or error. ISACA has a nice journal article about Segregation of Duties here and Nick Szabo writes about the concept  here. Internal controls and Separation of Duties apply... read more

UPDATE: Why Trend Micro’s Cloud Security Protection is relevant to the new Adobe Flash Player Security Vulnerability

Posted by admin in Cloud-based Security, Securing the Cloud, Threats from the Cloud, Uncategorized Sep 16th, 2010 | Comments Off
Enterprises using Adobe in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud environment may find a new Adobe Flash Player vulnerability to be of interest. Trend Micro’s antivirus and Trend Micro Deep Security offerings can both protect for this latest vulnerability and counter exploits of the vulnerability. If you have a IaaS cloud server with a Deep Security agent using updated rules (specifically rule–1004403 (Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution), you are covered. The above is an update to what we posted yesterday (September 15, 2010) regarding this critical vulnerability in Adobe’s... read more

New Adobe Flash Critical Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild.

Posted by admin in Cloud-based Security, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Threats from the Cloud Sep 15th, 2010 | Comments Off
Adobe has issued a security advisory APSA 10-03 describing a new critical vulnerability in its products. This time, the primary target is Flash Player with multiple platforms—Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and Android—all affected and is currently being exploited in the wild. Current versions of Acrobat and Reader—the target of last week’s vulnerability—are also affected by the said exploit although Adobe states that in-the-wild attacks against these have not yet been seen. Trend Micro detects malicious ShockWave Flash (.SWF) files exploiting this vulnerability as TROJ_SWIF.HEL. This functions... read more

Trend Micro announces SecureCloud public beta at VMWorld Conference

Posted by admin in Cloud-based Security, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Threats from the Cloud, Virtualization Sep 8th, 2010 | Comments Off
In this 30-second video, Todd Thiemann,  Sr. Director, Data Protection Marketing, talks about all the buzz around the Trend Micro SecureCloud public beta at the VMWorld Conference in San Francisco, Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2010.  Click “Read More” button for the link to the short video. click to view  Trend Micro SecureCloud public beta :30 video Share/Bookmark read more