A team made up of executives from Aruba Networks and Panzura are out with a new self-funded startup this week that aims to deploy security tools that enterprises use in their campus and extend it to the cloud.
Brandon Butler |
27 Oct |
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At the RSA Conference, VMware demonstrates the security features of its NSX network virtualization product.
Brandon Butler |
04 Mar |
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Cloud computing offers many advantages, but with those benefits come a new range of security concerns.
Brandon Butler |
03 Oct |
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When people think of network virtualization, the advantages that come to mind typically include faster provisioning of networks, easier management of networks and more efficient use of resources. But network virtualization can have another major benefit as well: security.
Brandon Butler |
15 Sep |
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In what is considered to be a natural evolution of tactics used by cybercriminals to infiltrate corporate networks, security firm Trend Micro has new evidence that more botnets and malware are being not only hosted in the cloud, but controlled remotely from cloud servers.
Brandon Butler |
26 Jun |
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This week disappointing news came from service provider Code Spaces, a company that provided support for devops application management. Code Spaces, which was hosted in Amazon Web Service's cloud, ceased operations. after suffering a distributed denial-of-service attack by a perpetrator who demanded ransom and then began deleting data when company officials logged into their AWS account to stop the attack.
Brandon Butler |
20 Jun |
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Some cloud storage providers who hope to be on the leading edge of cloud security adopt a "zero-knowledge" policy in which vendors say it is impossible for customer data to be snooped on. But a recent study by computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University is questioning just how secure those zero knowledge tactics are.
Brandon Butler |
21 Apr |
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VMware today said that its popular virtualization and cloud management products have security vulnerabilities that could lead to denials of service for customers using ESX and ESXi hypervisors and management platforms including vCenter Server Appliance and vSphere Update Manager.
Brandon Butler |
18 Oct |
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Looking to solidify its refocused efforts on private cloud platforms, Dell today rolled out new features to improve security and manageability of its offerings.
Brandon Butler |
01 Oct |
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The Cloud Security Alliance has updated its Cloud Control Matrix (CCM), which is designed to help organizations vet the security credentials of cloud service providers.
Brandon Butler |
30 Sep |
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IT departments have only a loose handle on what types of cloud-based services are being used within their organisations, and many services are being used without the IT department's blessing. Meanwhile, in an attempt to curb this behaviuor, IT departments commonly block popular cloud-based services, but allow potentially more high-risk services to be used unfiltered.
Brandon Butler |
26 Sep |
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The spectacle of National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposing the covert spying nature of US federal officials has sent ripple waves through the technology industry -- especially in the outsourcing arena.
Brandon Butler |
23 Sep |
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Through advancements to back-end systems, providers of cloud-based disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) are becoming more efficient at storing customer data and getting faster at restoring sites.
Brandon Butler |
13 Sep |
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Windows data volumes (meaning virtual machine hard-drives) in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services can be copied and have their access credentials modified, allowing a hacker to glean insights into the data, a programmer has reported.
Brandon Butler |
12 Sep |
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It's not a new notion, but one that is gaining adherents: Perimeter-based security options like firewalls and access controls just will not cut it for new technologies that expand beyond corporate networks.
Brandon Butler |
31 Jul |
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