Cloud Computing: Security Compliance and Governance
The technical awareness of the legal system with regards to cloud technologies is increasing. The courts are beginning to take a useful, pragmatic and well balanced approach to evaluating the fairness and effectiveness of service provider T&C’s in meeting customer information security requirements and obligations. The concept of what is reasonable is central to this [...]
Cloud Security and Privacy: An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance (Theory in Practice)
You may regard cloud computing as an ideal way for your company to control IT costs, but do you know how private and secure this service really is? Not many people do. With Cloud Security and Privacy, you’ll learn what’s at stake when you trust your data to the cloud, and what you can do [...]
Up in a cloud for processing computer data – Jerusalem Post
Up in a cloud for processing computer dataJerusalem PostBrakerski, together with Dr. Vinod Vaikuntanathan (who was Goldwasser's student at MIT), surprised the computer security world earlier this year with two scientific papers in which they described several new ways of making fully homomorphic encryption … “computer security” – Google News
The Cloud on Your Terms: Windows Intune
What in the world is this thing called Windows Intune? Windows Intune is management and in the cloud: Perform and management tasks remotely from a web-based console. Help secure PCs from malware and virus threats with endpoint protection.
Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns (Michael S. Rosenwald/Washington Post)
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns — MAIDEN, N.C. — Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment is rampant …
GAO sees no compelling reason to restrict Cloud data centers to U.S. locations
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: it_security In a May 2011 solicitation for Cloud providers – particularly for email services – the General Services Administration (GSA) found itself in an argument with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) over whether the data centers that would provide such Cloud services [...]
Above the Clouds: Managing Risk in the World of Cloud Computing
Product DescriptionInterested in ways to make your business more efficient? Then Cloud Computing may be just what you have been looking for. Cloud Computing can enable you to drive down the costs of your IT function and gives you the ability to focus on your core business, whilst saving energy. The concept of shifting computing [...]
Cloud Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Cloud Computing
Product DescriptionWell-known security experts decipher the most challenging aspect of cloud computing-securityCloud computing allows for both large and small organizations to have the opportunity to use Internet-based services so that they can reduce start-up costs, lower capital expenditures, use services on a pay-as-you-use basis, access applications only as needed, and quickly reduce or increase capacities. [...]
Amazon updates Cloud Drive and Cloud Player with unlimited music space, free storage for Amazon MP3s, iPad web player (Todd Haselton/BGR)
Todd Haselton / BGR:Amazon updates Cloud Drive and Cloud Player with unlimited music space, free storage for Amazon MP3s, iPad web player — Moments ago Amazon announced that it has made a number of enhancements to its Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services. First — for a limited time — anyone who signs up [...]
Microsoft to make inbound data transfer free on Windows Azure cloud (Mary Jo Foley/All about Microsoft Blog)
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:Microsoft to make inbound data transfer free on Windows Azure cloud — Microsoft plans to tweak its Windows Azure pricing, come July 1, to make the platform more attractive to users who want to migrate lots of data to the cloud. — The change, announced on June 22, [...]
