the State of Security

cloud computing

Are you aggressive about security enablement?

by David Spark

Do you see security as a threat or security as enablement, asked Lenny Heyman, General Manager of Interop. While Heyman realizes people are concerned with cloud security, you shouldn’t be scared away from the solutions cloud offers. While the cloud has hurdles, they’re realistic. He knows for cloud success it’s going to take experimenting, and [...]

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Successful cloud security requires clarity and automation around processes and policies

by David Spark

After hearing people’s frustration with the endless talk about cloud security, I was looking to find the source of the annoyance. Dwayne Melancon, Head of Products at Tripwire, suggested that it was just the endless numbers of whitepapers on the subject. Ultimately, companies want to move to the cloud, but they are concerned about putting [...]

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Why is “cloud security” so over hyped?

by David Spark

On the first night of the RSA Conference I asked people on the show floor, “What’s the most over-hyped security issue?” Almost everyone said, “Cloud.” The next day I told Martin McKeay, host of the Network Security Podcast, about everyone’s “cloud overload” and he agreed with me in the sense that cloud security is talked [...]

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RSA 2010: Chris Hoff on the state of data in a virtualized environment

by David Spark

David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco. Mr. Cloud, aka @beaker on Twitter, and one hell of a smart and nice guy, Chris Hoff, Director of Cloud and Virtualization Solutions for Cisco Systems, chatted with me about the state of data in a virtualization space. When I asked [...]

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RSA 2010: End of day show report from Alex Howard of SearchCompliance.com

by David Spark

David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco. Alex Howard (@digiphile) of SearchCompliance.com gave a great summary of the first full day at the RSA Conference. He summed up what he saw with these four points: 1. Howard Schmidt, the President’s Cyber Czar announced new metrics that will give [...]

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RSA 2010: Security in the cloud is everyone’s responsibility

by David Spark

David Spark here reporting for Tripwire at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco. RSA conference officially launched on Tuesday morning with a full band playing “Let’s Get Some Encryption” to the Bangles’ tune of “Walk like an Egyptian.” Following and acknowledging the hype in an industry for which he was a founder, Whitfield Diffie, [...]

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