Posts Tagged ‘cloud’

Secure data on Android devices with SecureZIP

Friday, May 18th, 2012
PKWARE announced SecureZIP Reader for Android, an application that secures enterprise and government data. The SecureZIP Solution secures corporate information that end-users send to the cloud vi...

“Big Data” Explained

Thursday, May 17th, 2012


I hate this term. People are throwing around “Big Data” the way they threw around “cloud” three years ago, without actually knowing what it is or how to manage and secure it. Basically, relational databases were designed to deal with … Co...

SSCC 90 – A walk around Interop 2012 with John Shier

Thursday, May 17th, 2012


This week's Chet Chat comes to you live from the show floor at Interop 2012. John Shier and Chet Wisniewski have some fun and share highlights from the expo hall.

Cloud computing as key to improved data protection

Thursday, May 17th, 2012
More than half (55%) of U.S. organizations expect their use of the cloud to increase as part of their business continuity strategy over the next year, according to CA. Canadian organizations are st...

Fraunhofer Institute finds security vulnerabilites in cloud storage services

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
The Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology has tested the security of several cloud storage services. It identified security problems in several areas, including encryption and data protection


Microsoft shows cloud computing security benefits

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are gaining significant IT security benefits from using the cloud, according to a new Microsoft study in five geographies. The study shows that 35 percent of U.S...

Cloud data encryption for Hosted Exchange

Monday, May 14th, 2012
Vaultive announced Vaultive for Hosted Exchange, a cloud data encryption solution that enables customers to encrypt data-at-rest and data-in-use within the Hosted Microsoft Exchange environment, while...

5 Key Interop 2012 Takeaways for CIOs and Other IT Pros

Monday, May 14th, 2012
As everything from application delivery to security and monitoring is seemingly shifting to the cloud, IT faces a chaotic and difficult to manage world. The good news is the tools are there, but you just can't go to a single provider as you did in the past. Given this shift, it's no surprise that Interop returned to its interoperability roots last week.

5 Key Interop 2012 Takeaways for CIOs and Other IT Pros

Monday, May 14th, 2012
As everything from application delivery to security and monitoring is seemingly shifting to the cloud, IT faces a chaotic and difficult to manage world. The good news is the tools are there, but you just can't go to a single provider as you did in the past. Given this shift, it's no surprise that Interop returned to its interoperability roots last week.

Cloud Computing Tools: Improving Security Through Visibility and Automation

Monday, May 14th, 2012
Many enterprises are reluctant to move critical cloud applications out of their own data centers and into the public cloud due to security concerns. Yet the same automated, consistent provisioning that is essential to managing either public or private clouds (as well as to the process of thinking through a cloud deployment) can also offer the fringe benefit of improving security.