The US government is on the verge of announcing a winner for its competition to build a new cryptographic hash algorithm – but not everyone thinks it's necessary. Current encryption can do the job nicely and – in the case of some cloud-computing services – for free. Cloud providers are responsible for your personal data when it's loaded into cloud services, but encrypting it may prove valuable if you're not entirely convinced.
David Braue |
04 Oct |
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Almost 30 per cent of Australian CIOs and ICT managers responding to a study had allocated funds to deploy or at least pilot Cloud infrastructure over the next year, with 20 per cent considering it for their next budget.
Byron Connolly |
16 Aug |
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As the world of cloud computing grows and becomes part of organisational growth strategies, procurement of cloud computing services has also reached front of mind.
Puneet Kukreja |
30 Jul |
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Companies need to look past organisational silos to build overall IT security risk profiles that consolidate fragmented security efforts, and the complexity of new hybrid-cloud models is only going to make things worse, a security-industry analyst has warned.
David Braue |
26 Jul |
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For many organisations, the prospect of migrating some or all of their IT infrastructure to the cloud is becoming increasingly attractive, with key benefits including cost savings, scalability and more time to focus on the services and applications important to customers.
Steve Schmidt |
18 Jul |
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Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today introduced Check Point Virtual Systems that allow businesses to consolidate security gateways onto a single appliance or open server -- simplifying security, reducing costs and boosting performance for private cloud environments.
CSO staff |
17 Jul |
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Microsoft has revoked trust for dozens of self-issued digital certificates for its Business Productivity Online Standard cloud services.
Liam Tung |
11 Jul |
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Greater adoption and usage of Open standards will lower the costs of MFA. There are a number of open standards in the security market. Reducing the costs to business by using open standards in deploying MFA is a practical forward looking strategy. Provisioning MFA has traditionally been costly. With a limited choice of vendors, the drivers for change have moved very slowly. Because of the high implementation and ownership costs, widespread adoption of the technology has been inhibited.
Mike Ryan |
18 Jun |
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The success of a CSO and the enterprise’s security strategy depends on awareness at the C-level of not just the threats, but their implications, making communications and building alliances outside IT the key to a CSO’s success. The battle to secure data has become a more vicious and dynamic beast today, according to Mike Rothman, CEO of analyst firm Securosis, who says attackers, including actors who may have “very deep pockets” that tilt the balance of power in their favour. Add these to the chaos of hacktivists, well-organised cybercriminals, social media and Cloud computing, and the challenges that CSOs face in protecting corporate data become clear.
Liam Tung |
18 Jun |
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It wasn’t too long ago that security vendors were touting new ‘heuristic’, or behaviour based, analysis as a newfangled way to spot new viruses that were generated by hacker toolkits and didn’t match any known signature on file. These days, however, heuristics are less a luxury than the standard operating procedure as globally connected malware authors spew new threats faster than ever and even the most diligent companies continue to suffer the indignity of successful security attacks.
David Braue |
14 Jun |
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Content distribution network CloudFlare reset all its customer API keys over the weekend after its CEO’s personal and corporate Gmail was breached in an “elaborate” attack on one customer, which appears to have been the 4Chan message board.
Liam Tung |
04 Jun |
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Cloud computing today is no longer a buzzword associated with universities or advanced technology organisations at the bleeding edge of innovation. It is now a mainstream sourcing model that most organisations are looking to as part of their broader IT strategy.
Puneet Kukreja |
30 May |
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Despite the increasing organisational complexity of a major business restructure, a completely virtualised server and desktop environment – and a new approach to securing it – has helped Melbourne-area transit provider Grenda Transit (GT) keep on top of its changing security profile.
David Braue |
21 May |
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The first is that the delegates don’t seem to have seen it this way. Nobody seemed to doze off early this afternoon after even the third session with a predominantly legal focus (Nick Abrahams of Norton Rose following Bill Caelli following Robert Clark).
Richard Chirgwin |
16 May |
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Organisations investing in off-shore cloud services could find themselves on the pointy end of legal action should the privacy of Australians be breached as a result, Victoria's acting privacy commissioner has warned
David Braue |
09 May |
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The week also saw the successful running of the Evolve.Cloud conference, which hit Sydney and Melbourne to bring together thought leaders in cloud security for an engaging program of speakers that addressed the overall idea that cloud providers need to step up when it comes to securing the data they're handling.
David Braue |
08 May |
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Traditional security models are slowing down virtualised environments and creating an untenable management burden as aggressive cloud-computing adopters skimp on security to ensure they don’t become victims of their own virtualisation success, a security executive has warned.
David Braue |
08 May |
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Dave Asprey, VP Cloud Security at Trend Micro, talked at length about the changing landscape of mobile devices and the integration of consumer-based products into the workplace. Inevitably, he said, new consumer technology spreads to the office, where it can become a challenge for IT, particularly in relation to security.
Ashton Mills |
04 May |
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At the Evolve.CLOUD conference in Sydney CSO sat down with Archie Reed, CTO Strategic Enterprise Services APAC and Japan for HP, to talk about the Cloud Security Alliance for which Reed is also a member. He outlined the global organisation's goals for standardising security in the cloud, education and certification, and what it means for companies looking to or making a transition to the cloud.
Ashton Mills |
04 May |
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Speaking at the Evolve.Cloud conference in Sydney, Vice President and Principal Analyst APAC at Forrester Research Group, Michael Barnes, explained how even if the cloud wasn't part of a company's IT, it will be in the near future, adding that the market is undergoing "unprecedented change" and companies will need to adapt.
Ashton Mills |
03 May |
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