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What’s the “Cloud” or better “What’s not a Cloud”
On analyst (and very active Tweeter on http://twitter.com/monkchips) quite a while ago (March 08) published a post, which we recently drew up in one of the cloud discussions:If you peel back the label...
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Secure Datacenter, Secure Cloud, Secure Government
At the moment I invest a lot of my time in a Whitepaper on Client and Cloud Security. There are a few fundamentals, which are already clear to me:You will not be able to run a trusted cloud ecosystem...
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HP and Microsoft Partnership: That’s What You Need in the Cloud
Often when I talk to our customers and they ask me about the cloud, a lot of questions come up. Most of them are security related (obviously) but some of them are more management focused. For example...
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Cloud Security Paper: Looking for Feedback
As most of you as well, I was looking for information and opinions on Cloud Security over the last year. I found a lot of papers but when I talk to our customers I realize that they think about the...
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Legal Challenges of International Business and the Cloud
To start with: I am an engineer not a lawyer – and this might be part of the problem…When I started to think about the Cloud and security and thought about all the work I do with Law Enforcement and...
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Insider Threat of Cloud Computing
Tonight I got this article forwarded to me: Afraid of outside cloud attacks? You're missing the real threat. David Linthicum (the author) claimed that if you are looking at the hackers attacking “your”...
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Azure Showcase: The Eye on Earth
Well, you know, fairly often when I look at showcases I am a little bit disappointed I have to admit. Mainly because the technology which is shown is really cool and I would love to leverage it – just...
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Council of Europe – Octopus Conference (Cooperation against Cybercrime) – Key...
I blogged on Day 1 and Day 2 but as I expected, I was unable to blog yesterday on the conference. However, let me just briefly give you my impression of the final day:The core part of this last day was...
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Manage your PCs in the Cloud – Sign up for Windows Intune Beta
We just opened the Beta for Windows Intune, your new PC management and security solution in the cloud. Here is a screenshot if the web console:So, go and sign up for the Beta:...
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A Detailed Analysis of an Attack – Do We Need an International Incident...
I recently came across a paper called Shadows in the Cloud, which is actually a follow-up report of Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network, an investigation of the attacks on the...
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Identity in the Cloud
Kim Cameron, one of our key identity architects had an interesting presentation on identity in the cloud and a corresponding interview. Both are worth looking at if you are planning to move into the...
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We Need Solid and Strong Transparent Processes for the Cloud
This morning I was reading an article called Google seeks to assure customers on cloud security practices on ComputerWeekly. I had to read this – obviously . It references a paper written by the Google...
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The Value of Government Clouds
We recently released a paper called The Economics of Cloud Computing for the EU Public Sector, which is actually valid for every other European country as well as it is not too narrowly focused on the...
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Cybercrime as a Service–Our Future?
It is not really surprising that the criminals will leverage the economy of Cloud Computing for their illegal purposes. Especially activities, which consume a lot of processor power will be moved to...
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Cloud computing providers: Clueless about security?
To me, one of the benefits of moving to the Cloud is security – obviously besides availability and costs.Recent incidents made me doubt: Amazon not only having significant downtime but in the same time...
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Who cares where your data is?
Wow, I guess the reason for you clicking on the link is this statement – right? Well, “unfortunately” I cannot claim ownership of it. It was made by a Google representative during an interview in...
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Internet Personalization–and How I Never Looked at It…
This is actually a great speech but very, very, very scary:and the scariest part is that I never looked at it that way but he is rightRoger
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Does the business really hate IT?
Back at the times of outsourcing, there was real tension between IT and the business. Internal IT had the “comfortable” position of having a monopoly: The business used the internal IT and basically...
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Security Considerations in a Private Cloud
I am talking a lot about Cloud Security. There are a few observations I made:Even though a lot of people are talking about the Cloud, there is still not too much knowledge about it. What is a private...
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Cloud Security in Office365
You heard about the launch of Office365 recently and I hope you read the blog post on the application of the Cloud Computing Security Considerations to the private. cloud. If not, here it is: Security...
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