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Seven Steps to Success Securing VMware withTrend Micro

Posted by Dave Asprey in Cloud Oct 25th, 2011 | Comments Off
Check out this webinar I did together with Ravi Kumar, Group Product Marketing Manager at VMware. We cover several types of risk for virtualization in the cloud, performance issues, and I close with some specific recommendations. Worth a listen if you deal with cloud or virtualization security on a regular basis. Share/Bookmark read more

Everything You Need to Know About Windows 8 in 8 Minutes – Except Security

Posted by Dave Asprey in Cloud Oct 19th, 2011 | Comments Off
Check out this video about Windows 8. It isn’t cloud security specific, but it’s got a ton of info about how Windows 8 will interact with the cloud, and it’s just8 minutes. Very worth seeing if you’re not up to speed on Windows 8. Windows 8 is going to have “built in” cloud services that work in real time with Microsoft cloud offerings like SkyDrive, which ought to put the hurt on cloud providers like DropBox, especially if Microsoft can handle security better than DropBox has. That remains to be determined… Taking an idea from Apple, Microsoft will use... read more

Encrypting Amazon Storage: Not So Simple

Posted by Dave Asprey in Cloud Oct 17th, 2011 | Comments Off
At my Interop presentation last week, a few people asked me about how secure storage on Amazon AWS can be. Here’s my take. First off, you’d have to say which type of storage you’re thinking of using before you figure out how secure you can make it. There are 3 different kinds of storage within Amazon: Instance storage – This is storage which comes included with your Server instance when you start it up in AWS. Think of this as your normal C: drive. The storage is specific only to that instance and does not persist when the instance is terminated. This storage is just about as... read more

Beyond Perimeter Defense to Data-Centric Security

Posted by Christine Drake in Cloud, Cloud-based Security, Consumerization of IT, Secure Data Centers, Securing the Cloud, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats, Threats from the Cloud, VMware Oct 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment
Traditionally businesses have focused their IT security on perimeter defense—blocking threats before they enter the network. This protection is still important.  But with today’s cloud computing, mobile devices, and advanced persistent threats (APTs), businesses need security that protects their data wherever it travels and in whatever type of device it resides, requiring new data-centric security.  Earlier this week, Trend Micro held its annual insight event for the analyst community and announced our new vision on data-centric security (see video clips of the event here and here).  Back... read more