Panda Security is the plucky Spanish antivirus firm that stormed the international market nearly a decade ago as malware threats boomed, beating most of its rivals to the idea of cloud security as an alternative to signature scanning. Well regarded technically and apparently successful, around 2010 the firm suddenly hit a sales wall.
John E Dunn | 16 Jul | Read more
India-based data center and enterprise cloud-based services provider NxtGen Datacenter & Cloud Technologies has deployed Fortinet's security solutions and appliances at its data center to provide high-speed managed security services to businesses in India.
Computerworld Hong Kong staff | 16 Jul | Read more
The Amazon AWS cloud service is fine for enterprise workloads and applying security controls such as encryption and firewalls is possible, though more security vendors need to step up to support Amazon's EC2 service, according to the Gartner analysis presented today.
Ellen Messmer | 26 Jun | 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
The Bank of England's CIO has advised caution in adopting public cloud services, with potential pitfalls around security, costs and data sovereignty.
Matthew Finnegan | 20 Jun | Read more
Revelations about U.S. National Security Agency snooping have made some buyers outside the U.S. think twice about public clouds, placing a drag on one of the world's biggest technology trends, the head of Hewlett-Packard's enterprise group said.
Stephen Lawson | 19 Jun | Read more
Concerns over security are creating a barrier to the deployment of technologies such as cloud and mobile by UK banks, a survey has claimed.
Matthew Finnegan | 18 Jun | Read more
Public cloud may be able deliver greater agility to enterprises, but it can also complicate the already fraught information security landscape.
Hamish Barwick | 12 Jun | Read more
In today's bring-your-own-device and cloud services enterprise, real-world stories of data loss abound. What's really horrifying: Things seem to be getting worse.
Tom Kaneshige | 07 Jun | Read more
Yesterday data security company Sophos released the results of a survey it conducted on enterprise use of popular cloud-storage services such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive and OneDrive.
There's no scientific formula behind this list: It's just a bunch of new-ish, mainly enterprise-focused computing and networking companies that have launched, received fresh funding of late or otherwise popped onto my radar screen.
IBM picked a good day to launch a suite of security tools and services: a Monday morning when many CEOs saw in their news roundup that retailer Target is newly rid of a CEO who presided over a catastrophic data breach.
Juan Carlos Perez | 06 May | Read more
Google will no longer scan the email messages of students and other school staff who use its Google Apps for Education suite, exempting about 30 million users from the chronically controversial practice for Gmail advertising.
Juan Carlos Perez | 01 May | Read more
Twentieth Century Fox, one of the world's largest film companies, is considering upgrading its file transfer system to protect against hackers.
Margi Murphy | 01 May | Read more
Enterprise workloads are shifting to Cloud and hosting environments in ever greater numbers and attacks that have historically targeted on-premises environments are following them, according to a new report.
Thor Olavsrud | 24 Apr | Read more