Cloud computing brings changes for IT security workers
Watch out, computer security professionals: Cloud computing vendors are coming for your jobs.
Fred O'Connor | 09 Apr | Read more
Watch out, computer security professionals: Cloud computing vendors are coming for your jobs.
Fred O'Connor | 09 Apr | Read more
While having instant access to your information via the Cloud is a major bonus to productivity and convenience, there's a risk that the security trade-off will be too high.
Steve Ragan | 08 Apr | Read more
This may finally be the year that the U.S. Congress gives email and other documents stored in the cloud for several months the same privacy protections from police searches as newer files or paper records stored in a file cabinet, say backers of electronic privacy reform.
Grant Gross | 12 Mar | Read more
Google has released a security scanner to help its cloud customers guard against attacks on their Web applications.
Joab Jackson | 20 Feb | Read more
A long-standing effort to extend privacy protections to email and other data in the cloud got new life Thursday when U.S. lawmakers introduced not one, but two bills to reform the country's electronic privacy laws.
Grant Gross | 13 Feb | Read more
A Russian software company has updated its forensic software to work-around the security features Apple recently added to iCloud and increased what information can be extracted from the cloud storage service.
Fred O'Connor | 18 Dec | Read more
Up to a half of IT European staff admit they're not ready for the EU's ground-breaking General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and more than that number aren't even sure what the term ‘GDPR' stands for, a survey of European professionals by network management firm Ipswitch has suggested.
John E. Dunn | 13 Nov | Read more
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has launched the sixth round of procurement for the G-Cloud framework.
Charlotte Jee | 07 Nov | Read more
The issue of so-called 'shadow IT' – informal adoption of cloud-based applications independent of a company's official IT strategy – has continued to cause problems but is more pronounced in smaller businesses with little or no IT oversight.
David Braue | 06 Nov | Read more
The #nomakeupselfie campaign, which raised £8 million for Cancer Research in six days, sparked so much unexpected traffic to Cancer Research UK's website that CIO Mike Bennett believed it was under attack.
Margi Murphy | 24 Oct | Read more
Governments may need to tighten the regulatory screws on SaaS vendors to make them be more transparent and forthcoming about their security practices.
Fred O'Connor | 23 Oct | Read more
HP has enhanced its disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) offering in the cloud. Known as HP Helion Continuity Service, it forms part of HP's new HP Helion cloud package of services.
Antony Savvas | 17 Oct | Read more
The cloud computing industry is improving its security story – long based on installing intermediary encryption gateways – but is still more than a year away from having “ubiquity in terms of security controls”, a Symantec security expert has warned.
David Braue | 17 Oct | Read more
Hosted service vendor Telco Systems is hoping to make it easier for businesses to buy cloud-based routers and firewalls, but the company first has to convince service providers it's a good idea.
Mikael Ricknäs | 16 Oct | Read more
Microsoft researchers have figured out a new way to keep data and applications secure in the cloud, by cordoning them off in memory from the underlying infrastructure.
Joab Jackson | 10 Oct | Read more