The cloud gets in your eyes
Driven by the inexorable push crush towards digital transformation, investment in cloud services has snowballed in recent years.
David Braue | 10 Jul | Read more
Driven by the inexorable push crush towards digital transformation, investment in cloud services has snowballed in recent years.
David Braue | 10 Jul | Read more
Today’s businesses are producing so much data that a core part of IT strategy is just finding somewhere to store it.
The Commonwealth government’s secure cloud strategy may be trying to clear out a cloud-services certification logjam, but worrying cloud malware figures suggest that agencies face an uphill battle sifting through an ever-expanding array of options to match the policy’s goals with the technologies they actually implement.
David Braue | 09 Feb | Read more
The escalating incidence of fraud may be driving financial institutions to ramp up their data-protection efforts with automation and orchestration tools, but one security executive has warned that many organisations risk exposing themselves if they open themselves too quickly to manage fraud and malicious attackers.
David Braue | 13 Dec | Read more
Even as one-time Internet giant Yahoo is swallowed in a $6.5 billion acquisition, merger and acquisitions (M&A) experts have warned that due-diligence audits of companies targeted for acquisition often reveal cybersecurity risks that compromise compliance and could threaten the merger and acquisition activities.
David Braue | 01 Aug | Read more
Microsoft toolset for monitoring corporate data in third-party cloud apps is now available for all customers.
Private-sector enterprises are exploring alternate file-sharing tools as they increasingly recognise the value of classifying and securing their data as government agencies have done for years, according to one senior security vendor executive.
David Braue | 23 Oct | Read more
Dropbox has had its share of security woes over the years. While the cloud storage provider has done much to beef up its defenses, there's still plenty you can do on your own to improve the safety of your files. Here are a few ways to get started.
Michael Ansaldo | 15 May | Read more
Keeping your Google account secure is already a good idea, so you might as well nab some Google Drive storage while doing it.
Jared Newman | 11 Feb | Read more
Last week, Microsoft released Outlook for iOS and offered a preview version of Outlook for Android. While this was generally heralded as a significant productivity win, it seems that there might be some security problems.
Anthony Caruana | 06 Feb | Read more
Cloud storage is incredibly convenient, but it can also be confusing. Sometimes you're just not sure what files to put up there or if you should store anything online at all. One way to approach the issue is to ask yourself what you want to get out of storing files online. Is your overarching concern convenience, security, or a mix of the two?
After reading my article on encrypting sensitive data, Ian Cooper asked if it was safe "to use one of these encryption tools in conjunction with an online backup service?"
Lincoln Spector | 19 Dec | Read more
The line between local and remote storage started blurring long ago. The moment you could save a file from within a program on a Mac or other OS to something that wasn't a physically connected hard drive--whether a network file server, a remote AFP volume elsewhere on the Internet, or a Finder-mounted whatever--you had to make a conscious effort to remember what was entirely within your control and what was not. Sure, remote files used to take longer to save: we'd watch a progress bar or beachball on larger files, and the latency reminded us.
Glenn Fleishman | 07 Nov | Read more
Microsoft yesterday pulled another patch, this one released Tuesday, that was meant to fix OneDrive for Business, the online storage service for employees running Office 365.
Gregg Keizer | 12 Sep | Read more
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 | Read more