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admin in
Cloud
Jan 20th, 2012 |
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This weekend we will be rolling out a newly refreshed version of our website www.trendmicro.com. Our web pros researched ways to enhance site navigation and esthetics for a better overall browsing experience.
Here are a couple peeks of the new design.
First impressions of the new design? Let us know!!
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Posted by
Christine Drake in
Cloud, Cloud-based Security, SaaS, Security, Smart Protection Network, Threats
Jan 19th, 2012 |
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When people talk about cloud security it can mean either 1) security for the cloud—security that protects your cloud initiatives, like protection for virtual machines or data stored in the cloud; or 2) security from the cloud such as Security as a Service that uses the cloud to deliver some aspect of protection, like hosted email or web security. Here, I’d like to focus on security from the cloud that’s delivered in a hybrid model—a cloud-client architecture.
Using the cloud for security can deliver faster threat protection and better security. Traditional security has relied on signature...
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Christine Drake in
Cloud, Privacy, Compliance and Identity, public cloud, Securing the Cloud
Jan 18th, 2012 |
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Dave Asprey and Jonathan Gershater bring up good points in their blog posts about the USA PATRIOT Act (“The USA PATRIOT Act is Bad for Business” and “Patriot Act is not the first (nor likely) last law of its kind”). The U.S. might seize your data or other governments might gain access for a multitude of reasons. Even if your government doesn’t have laws that allow data access, they may work with a government that does, and may hand over your data—perhaps without your knowledge.
But governmental seizure of data is only a small component of potential data loss. It doesn’t really...
Posted by
Jonathan Gershater in
Cloud
Jan 16th, 2012 |
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In response to my colleague Dave Asprey’s Patriot Act post:
Any law that is abused or misinterpreted is bad for society and business
There is a delicate balance between protecting citizens’ safety and violating civil liberties
First some history. The Patriot Act, passed in 2001, is not the first American law to provide law enforcement authorities with the powers to retrieve information.
The Wiretap Act: Title III of The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 permits authorities to obtain wiretaps
FISA: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 is an Act of...
Posted by
Dave Asprey in
Cloud
Jan 12th, 2012 |
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Cloud computing is growing by leaps and bounds in the US, but American cloud service providers are finding themselves at a disadvantage in the international marketplace. This is unfortunate – I helped to build the first large-scale implementation of modern cloud computing in 1999, and I did it right in Silicon Valley. It’s not a technology problem or financial problem that’s causing this issue for cloud providers. It’s a political and perception problem caused by a decade old American law called the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate...
Posted by
Dave Asprey in
Cloud
Jan 10th, 2012 |
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Check out this awesome video from dyn.com. It pretty much says it all. No one wants a dedicated hardware appliance unless they have to, and that goes double for cloud providers.
The virtual appliance writing has been on the wall for some time now. It’s why I left my position running Strategic Planning for the Citrix virtualization business unit in 2006 (ish) in order to become VP of Technology & Marketing at Zeus Technologies, one of the first virtual appliance networking companies. (Zeus recently sold to Riverbed for $100 million).
I was merciless when it came to competing with hardware...
Posted by
Dave Asprey in
Cloud
Jan 6th, 2012 |
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Recent headlines focus on how a convicted murderer got a retrial because a computer virus destroyed the transcripts of his trial. Normally, court stenographers document a trial using both electronic media and paper media. In this case, the stenographer ran out of paper and then moved records from her stenograph to her PC, which was corrupted by virus.
For the timber industry and file cabinet manufacturers, it’s refreshing to think that every trial has hundreds of board-feet of trees sitting in a file cabinet somewhere, but the costs of creating and storing the huge volume of paper records...
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Dave Asprey in
Ambient Cloud, Cloud
Jan 4th, 2012 |
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Some interesting ambient cloud news came out on January 1. Internet Explorer is continuing its decline and Google Chrome is benefiting. (And my old, formerly trusted Firefox is declining too – maybe I’ll switch back if they ever fix that memory fragmentation problem…)
At 1st blush, it’s hard to see how this has much to do with cloud computing except for the fact that browsers are used to access SaaS applications. But when you look at it from the perspective of the ambient cloud, browsers are themselves a cloud.
Think about it: what if you had an application running on tens...
