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Chrome OS: So secure we don’t need security?
Trend Micro - Cloud Security BlogWith the launch announcements of various Google Chrome OS netbooks, the focus of the press and security companies alike is beginning to take a closer look at the security promises made and also at some of the more ’media friendly‘ statements such as, “...users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates”. -
Open Source Clouds Become Enterprise-Grade: Citrix and OpenStack
Trend Micro - Cloud Security BlogToday at Synergy, Citrix announced “Project Olympus,” effectively making open source clouds a more viable option for enterprises. In the past, it was cloud providers like Rackspace who tended to focus on open source cloud infrastructure, while enterprises tended to make more conservative choices where support contracts were available. -
A Tale: The Snack Supplier, the Vending Machine, and the Cloud
Trend Micro - Cloud Security BlogI recently had an interesting chat with the operator of our snack vending machine while making a coffee in the kitchen. She was restocking our machine and had her iPad sitting on the table. In their 2 person company they now have 2 iPads and a PC. They do their inventory control and tracking while onsite at customer premises via the iPad. -
Did Amazon’s aggressive algorithms prevent customer data loss?
Trend Micro - Cloud Security BlogHow difficult is it to run a public cloud service? As all of us know, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced an outage on 21-Apr-2011 and that lasted for almost 4 days. Quite a lot of companies were affected and you can find the list here. The Internet was flooded with articles speculating what went wrong, [...] -
Do you have a migration plan for IPv6 yet? (part 2 of 2)
Trend Micro - Cloud Security BlogIPv6 is growing rapidly. Chart from http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/index.html Over the past few years, the growth of IPv6 has increased greatly. Already, there is about 100,000 times more space advertised on IPv6 as on IPv4. Well, that’s not exactly correct, since we “count” addresses differently. As of today, there are around 202,926,147,961,349 so-called “/64′s” being advertised [...] -
IPv6 is here. How does this affect email?
Trend Micro - Cloud Security BlogPart 1 of 2 parts IPv6 will change how we use the internet, again. To the typical user, there is no difference; web sites work the same. But email is a different story. When using IPv6, addresses are allocated in a different manner. Most end-users today get one IP address, which is shared between multiple [...] -
Cat Massage and Security Awareness
Mad SecurityA friend posted an awesome video on Youtube today. Unfortunately, it reminded me of far too many of the security awareness videos I’ve seen in the past few years – entirely focused on the message and without any real thought about the presentation. The goal of your security awareness campaign isn’t to end up [...] -
Sticky Like Porn
Mad SecurityEvery organization uses security awareness training to give their users the message on the importance of information security and the role they play. The way you get your message across is the difference between checking the box and being effective. We were asked by a potential customer to show him something that was “sticky”, so [...] -
MAD Security is hiring a Security Engineer ASAP
Mad SecurityMAD Security is hiring a security engineer immediately for one of our partners. See the brief below; for more specific information on experience requirements, visit our job posting the Security Engineer position. Brief: One of MAD’s partners requires a resource to work in and with its Security Operations Center (SOC) team. This role will be [...] -
Who cares about Security Awareness? (or: why “Just Say Security” doesn’t work)
Mad SecurityI spend a lot of time talking with people about our awareness training efforts. And the first thing that almost every one of our clients who “gets it” tells me is the same thing: ”We don’t want security awareness.” That’s not how they say it, but that’s what they’re ultimately saying. What their actual [...]