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Do excuse my absence as of late. I have circled the world about 2 times since we last spoke, visiting customers, presenting seminars and what I can say with confidence is that there's a lot happening out there these days. I've been making a few observations during this time, on my travels, talking...
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Choice is a balancing act; too much and customers may be overwhelmed; too little and customers are locked in to a certain vendor. In terms of security, a single vendor may degrade into what has been cleverly termed a monoculture . As has been pointed out , Microsoft may be let off the hook as an example...
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In a previous entry , I mentioned standardization for "cloud" computing. So I was happy to see the New York Times Bits technology blog run an article on the launch of OpenStack from Rackspace . As a customer, I always insist on a published specification, preferably governed by a standards body...
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I actually find myself agreeing with Larry Ellison ... But I guess he is right once in a while! Maybe that is why he can take some time off work to go win the Americas Cup . But I digress... I too think there is a lot of hype around the "cloud." My point is that existing and readily available...
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I'm no Cliff Stoll , but several years ago, I did catch someone breaking into my system . In the mid 1990s, I administered the servers for a small Internet service provider (ISP). We had received several complaints that service was slow. As I investigated, I found that someone had used a sendmail...
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If you haven't noticed, there's a bit of a revolution going on. There's another buzzword floating around the conferences, the web sites, the blogs, and the magazines. It's called Cloud Computing . It's certainly not a new topic and I've been hesitant to talk about it on this blog...
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I promise I'm not on some kind of crusade against the whole idea of cloud computing, but just recently it seems to be coming up a lot . (That's what I get for walking around the RSA Conference trying to count the number of stock, cloud images I saw on booths.) This is an interesting article in...
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Thanks to the good folks at Security Squared for posting the video taken at RSA . Lots of industry luminaries discuss cloud and security; definitely worth a look. (OK, lots of industry luminaries and me. Yes, I'm the one with the British accent.) Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
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I had the opportunity to make a quick, 3-day trip to the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco at the beginning of March. As predicted by several pundits, securing the cloud and virtualized infrastructures was a dominant theme at the show – from the keynotes to the Exhibit Hall. Everyone sees the...
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Filed under: Security, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, RSA Conference, RSA 2010, cloud security, Enrique Salem, Symantec, Art Coviello, EMC
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On the heels of RSA, security is at the top of everyone’s mind. While many were distracted by all the talk of clouds, we need to keep our eye on the ball. Securing critical information is task #1, regardless of where that information is stored. In his weekly newsletter (sent at the end of last...
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Looking back at RSA last week, I wonder if part of what drives the almost frenzied hype around cloud security is the pervasive and lurking fear in the mindset of all security professionals: I'm missing something really important, and it's going to come back and bite me. Part of the problem is...
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I don't know what the next big security trend is going to be, but I can certainly tell you what a lot of vendors here at RSA are clearly hoping it will be: something with a cloud. There's clouds everywhere here at the show. It's like walking through some high-tech, noisy version of the afterlife...
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Have you ever realized how much information you take in and process in a single day, much less a single week? If you sat back and thought about it, you might find it interesting what information seemed to stick with you. Some of it may seem critical to your work or your family. Some of it may seem trivial...
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I had some time to meet up with Joern Wettern , Redmond Magazine , here at RSA, and he had some interesting insights regarding the way emotion can drive a lot of security and technology decisions. It's often the perception of a threat or of a risk reduction that determines what happens and how, which...
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Success in today’s world is often predicated on the ability to improve/expand/grow business with the adoption of potentially disruptive technology, which is any technology that fundamentally changes the way we are currently operating or will operate. Past examples of disruptive technology include...