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Sep 23rd, 2011 |
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Christine Drake in
Cloud, Cyber crime, DataCenter, hybrid-cloud, IaaS, PaaS, private cloud, public cloud, SaaS, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security, Threats, Threats from the Cloud, Virtualization
Sep 8th, 2011 |
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We often hear that security and privacy concerns are the main inhibitors to cloud adoption. But what are the true threats? Is the cloud really more dangerous than your on-site data center? I would say that virtualization and cloud computing aren’t inherently more dangerous, but they have unique infrastructure that must be addressed when creating a security foundation.
There are similar attacks across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures—data-stealing malware, web threats, spam, phishing, bots, etc. So many companies are tempted to deploy their security for dedicated physical...
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Christine Drake in
Cloud, Deep Security, hybrid-cloud, IaaS, Privacy, Compliance and Identity, private cloud, public cloud, Securing the Cloud
Sep 1st, 2011 |
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By saying that encryption is not enough for cloud security, I don’t mean that you also need other types of protection like server security, identity management, etc. I think most people deploying cloud computing plan to implement more than encryption for security. What I mean is that encryption alone is not enough in an encryption solution when it comes to cloud environments.
Of course, industry-standard encryption is essential, but it’s table stakes. When dealing the multi-tenant nature of the public cloud, or even the inter-departmental shared resources of a private cloud, how encryption...
