Why Higher Education Institutions Need Cloud-based Identity Providers
By Dan DagnallFederation is definitely a hot topic these days, with NSTIC attempting to create an identity ecosystem, InCommon continuing to build its service-provider fede ...
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Seeing Through the Clouds
By TK KeaniniThe economics of cyber-attacks have changed over the years. Fifteen years ago, it was all about network penetration, but today advanced attackers are more concerned about being detected....
View ArticleCloud Collaboration: Maintaining Zero Knowledge across International Boundaries
By Jonathan GohstandThe increasingly global nature of business requires companies to collaborate more and more across borders, exchanging all manner of documents: contracts, engineering documents and...
View ArticleWhat Should Cloud-enabled Data Security Protections Look Like in the Future?
By V.Jay LaRosaWhile listening to one of my favorite podcasts about two months ago, I heard a quote from a man named William Gibson that really resonated with me. He said, "The future is here already,...
View ArticleSSH – Does Your “Cloud Neighbor” Have an Open Backdoor to Your Cloud App?
By Gavin HillSecure Shell (SSH) is the de facto protocol used by millions to authenticate to workloads running in the cloud and transfer data securely. Even more SSH sessions are established...
View ArticlePatching the Perpetual MD5 Vulnerability
By Gavin HillEarlier this month, Microsoft updated the security advisory that deprecates the use of MD5 hash algorithms for certificates issued by certification authorities (CA) in the Microsoft root...
View ArticleDigital Certificates: Gone in 60 Months or Less
By Gavin HillFor years, cybercriminals have been taking advantage of the blind trust organizations and users place in cryptographic keys and digital certificates. Only now are vendors starting to...
View ArticleWatering Hole Attacks: Protecting Yourself from the Latest Craze in Cyber...
By Harold ByunCybercriminals are clever and know how to evolve – you’ve got to give them that. They’ve proven this once again with their latest cyber-attack strategy, the
View ArticleBeyond Encryption: The 5 Pillars of Cloud Data Security
By Kamal ShahGiven the recent influx of cybersecurity attacks and the hubbub about the National Security Agency’s PRISM program, there is lot of talk about the im ...
View ArticleA Prescription for Cloud Data Security for Healthcare Service Providers
By Kamal ShahCloud services are here to stay, and practically everybody is embracing them. In fact, the cloud computing industry is growing at the torrid pace of nearly 30% per year right now,...
View ArticleIT Opportunities Surrounding Shadow IT
By Kamal ShahThe magnitude of Shadow IT is significant and growing. Gartner has predicted< ...
View ArticleA Hybrid Approach for Migrating IAM to the Cloud
By Merritt MaximWe continue to hear about how cloud, mobility and the consumerization of IT has the potential to transform business. However, the ongoing hype around these trends may lead some to...
View ArticleDon’t Let a Disaster Leave your Data Out in the Cold
By Andrew WildWhen we see images from natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy of flooded neighborhoods, downed power lines and destroyed homes the first concern, of course, is for the safety of the...
View ArticleRethink Cloud Security to Get Ahead of the Risk Curve
By Kurt JohnsonEver since the cloud sprung up to the top of every IT discussion, the issue of cloud security was right alongside it. Let’s face it, enterprise security has never been easy, and the...
View ArticleHow the “Internet of Things” Will Feed Cloud Computing’s Next Evolution
By David CanellosWhile the Internet of Things is not a new concept (Kevin Ashton first coined the term in 1999 to describe how the internet is connected to the physical world), it is just now becoming...
View ArticleBuilding Trust and Security through Transparency of Service
By David BakerWith the growing movement of enterprises to the cloud, it’s more important than ever that service providers demonstrate and prove good security practices to their customers, in good times...
View ArticlePlugging "Cloud Identity Leaks": Why Your Business Should Become an Identity...
By Mark O’NeillMost people have used the Facebook, Twitter, or Google Apps buttons located on websites to log into third-party services. This approach is useful within consumer IT as it enables the...
View ArticleSecurity Check List: An Ounce of Prevention is Better than a Pound of Cure
By Wolfgang KandekIt is common belief that buying more robust and expensive security products will offer the best protection from computer-based attacks; that ultimately the expenditure pays off by...
View ArticleIdentity Management Plays a Key Role in Mobile Device Management (MDM)
By Dan DagnallAs BYOD and other mobile device related initiatives take hold, sooner rather than later, identity management will once again be considered as an ...
View ArticleHow to Adopt the Public Cloud While Attaining Private Cloud Control and Security
By Gerry GrealishEarlier this year, McKinsey & Company released an article titled “Protecting information in the cloud,” discussing the increased us ...
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