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Dave Asprey in
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Apr 26th, 2012 |
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Trend Micro is putting on a pretty cool, free event for virtualization and security industry leaders.
We’re doing interactive roundtables and presentations to help IT people learn how to protect your data when using new innovative computing environments represented today by virtualization and cloud architectures.
Our presenters will share how progressive business and IT leaders are accelerating their paths to cloud computing with confidence without sacrificing availability or service quality — and at an improved cost of ownership.
We have some serious experts coming to present, including...
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Dave Asprey in
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Apr 26th, 2012 |
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I was on a panel at the DCIA Cloud Computing Conference at the NAB show in Las Vegas.
You can hear the entire panel here.
The topic was Privacy Issues, Reliability Questions, Security Concerns in the Cloud Computing Space, and the panel included:
Dave Asprey, VP, Cloud Security, Trend Micro
Tom Mulally, Consultant, Numagic Consulting
Graham Oakes, Chairman, Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA)
Rajan Samtani, SVP, Sales & Marketing, Peer Media Technologies
Dan Schnapp, Prtnr. & Ch. of New Media, Ent. & Tech., Hughes, Hubbard & Reed
Yangbin Wang, CEO, Vobile
Marvin Wheeler, Chairman,...
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Dave Asprey in
Cloud, Privacy, Compliance and Identity, public cloud
Apr 25th, 2012 |
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In 1998 I helped to create one of the first modern cloud services at Exodus Communications, and since then there has been a nagging concern in the back of my mind that legacy government interpretations of our Fourth Amendment rights would smack down enterprise adoption of cloud computing. That didn’t happen, thankfully. But now the Terms of Service for the new Google Drive may open a new legal argument that hurts adoption of cloud storage for everyone.
To see why this can happen, it helps to understand how courts interpret the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, which provides that the...
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Dave Asprey in
Cloud
Apr 12th, 2012 |
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Nearly five years ago the British House of Lords used the term ‘wild west’ in a damning report on the state of the internet, calling on government and industry to do much more to protect users online and help restore fading confidence in the world wide web.
Today pundits bandy the same term about, but this time they are talking about mobile apps, and in particular a storm that erupted earlier this year around iOS applications which take data from user address books without user consent or even knowledge.
The issue first came to attention in early February when a developer discovered that a...
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Jonathan Gershater in
Cloud, Deep Security, Malware, Privacy, Compliance and Identity, public cloud, Securing the Cloud, Security, Threats
Apr 2nd, 2012 |
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Not a month goes by when there isn’t an announcement of a breach of electronic health records thereby disclosing personal and financial data; and that excludes breaches that are not publicly acknowledged. In a recent report from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 18 million Americans have had their personal health information stolen over the past two years.
So one has to ask: considering the financial and legal implications of a breach of health records, why don’t organizations deploy security solutions to protect electronic health records? Answers often offered by CIOs...
