Cloud Security Journal

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Regulation of consumer and corporate data is increasing in response to the growing movement into cloud service offerings. Coupled with high-profile intrusions by groups such as Anonymous and Lulzsec, the necessity for a standard way to assess the security of cloud service providers becomes apparent. CloudAudit is an open standard developed by a Cloud Security Alliance working group that provides an open, common, extensible namespace and interface to enable cloud providers and authorized customers to automate audits, assertions, assessments and assurance for their cloud infrastructure, platform or application environments. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Christopher MacGown, Co-Founder & CTO at Piston Cloud Computing, will look at the CloudAudit API and implementations. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exh... (more)

The Security Trope from a Best-Practices Perspective

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! The ever-present raven of Cloud Computing called "security" cannot be ignored. In this Lunchtime Power Panel at the 9th International Cloud Expo, five prominent members of the Cloud Network of Women (CloudNOW) - Jocelyn DeGance Graham, Founder and President of Cloud Network Of Women (CloudNOW); Jill Tummler Singer, CIO for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO); Jamie Dos Santos is President & CEO, Terremark Federal Group; Kristin Lovejoy is the Vice President of Information Technology Risk for IBM; and Melissa Siems, Sr. Director, Cloud ... (more)

Identity Driven Security in the Cloud

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Security is moving to Trust Management and the Cloud is going to make it happen. In a connected world security is morphing quickly and we are no longer focused on disconnected servers, objects and things. In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Scott Chasin, CTO McAfee Content & Cloud Security, discussed how it's a relationship-driven world where security is now largely about the identity of everything and how we manage security is going to come down to identifying trusted relationships. Click Here to View This General S... (more)

Hackers Hackers Everywhere, Is My Public Cloud That Safe?

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! Now that SSL has been compromised, fake certificates abound, and very sophisticated attacks are targeting private and public sector alike, enterprise adoption of cloud computing is coming under more scrutiny than ever. Nobody wants to be the next high-profile name in the news. In his general session at the 9th International Cloud Expo, Terry Woloszyn, Founder/CTO of PerspecSys Inc., introduced some of the key privacy, residency, and security areas to consider when adopting public cloud applications, and best practices for securing cloud to b... (more)

The Big Crack in Cloud Security

With the New Year having rolled in, you've probably had your fill of "This is the year of (pick your technology, fill in the blank)" predictions. After all, for how many years now have we heard, "This is the year for cloud computing?" While there's no doubt that the wave of cloud computing continues to swell, real-world IT organizations are clearly not as quick to jump aboard as prognosticators. That's because there are a lot of unknown aspects of the cloud, and security is chief among them. Deployment of cloud applications is daunting when you consider the risks of having appl... (more)