The latest reports surrounding the surveillance programs of the NSA and their International counterparts reveal that these agencies have been able to decode the encryption methods some enterprises and organizations use to keep their online data private.
While these headlines are likely disconcerting for those operating in the U.S. or using software applications from cloud providers, as stated in our recent press release and blog post, enterprises do not need to allow their fears to slow down or stop their cloud adoption.
More attention has been turning to tokenization recently as a strong approach to secure sensitive data. Tokenization, like encryption, encodes or conceals data so it is protected from unauthorized parties. But unlike encryption, in which a mathematical link back to the original data’s true form still exists; tokenization is unique in that it completely removes the original data from the systems in which the replacement tokens reside (in this case, the cloud itself). You can find out more information about tokenization on this resource page.
When implemented in its strongest fashion (a randomized token generation approach
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Portal Architects to Unveil New Skysync at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Portal Architects, creators of SkySync will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SkySync enables businesses to easily Sync, Copy, or Migrate Files across any on-site or cloud-based storage platform. With SkySync’s new file virtualization capabilities, organizations can perform federated searches across any number of connected systems at once. The search results are automatically aggregated into a single folder which can then be synced, copied or moved to any defined storage destination.
Application Security in the Cloud Is Still Cloudy
IBM shared a security related infographic via Twitter recently and in looking through the statistics (most of which are attributed to 2011 research, by the way) I happened to catch a statement claiming «The average company is attacked 60,000 times a day.»
IBM notes that «average» is average for the study, which consisted of mostly large enterprises, and while I’m certain there are still experts who would dispute this claim (it’s higher! it’s lower! That’s only an average of a subset of a selection of a …) for me it raised an interesting question with respect to attacks and cloud-based applications: If your application is deployed in the cloud, how do you if/when it’s being attacked? Perhaps more importantly, though, is whether or not you should know. After all, «the cloud» is taking care of all that infrastructure and networky stuff under the covers for you, right? And one of those «stuff» is addressing attacks.
Application Security in the Cloud Is Still Cloudy
IBM shared a security related infographic via Twitter recently and in looking through the statistics (most of which are attributed to 2011 research, by the way) I happened to catch a statement claiming «The average company is attacked 60,000 times a day.»
IBM notes that «average» is average for the study, which consisted of mostly large enterprises, and while I’m certain there are still experts who would dispute this claim (it’s higher! it’s lower! That’s only an average of a subset of a selection of a …) for me it raised an interesting question with respect to attacks and cloud-based applications: If your application is deployed in the cloud, how do you if/when it’s being attacked? Perhaps more importantly, though, is whether or not you should know. After all, «the cloud» is taking care of all that infrastructure and networky stuff under the covers for you, right? And one of those «stuff» is addressing attacks.
The Importance of Disaster Recovery Testing
In this business, we talk quite a lot about the importance of disaster recovery plans and strategies. Today’s organizations face a multitude of choices when it comes to building a disaster recovery (DR) plan to protect their data and provide business continuity in the case of outages and other disasters. Available options include building out a second data center/disaster site, populating a colocation facility with redundant hardware, outsourcing recovery to a hosting provider or utilizing cloud compute and storage for an on-demand recovery strategy.
The Importance of Disaster Recovery Testing
In this business, we talk quite a lot about the importance of disaster recovery plans and strategies. Today’s organizations face a multitude of choices when it comes to building a disaster recovery (DR) plan to protect their data and provide business continuity in the case of outages and other disasters. Available options include building out a second data center/disaster site, populating a colocation facility with redundant hardware, outsourcing recovery to a hosting provider or utilizing cloud compute and storage for an on-demand recovery strategy.
When Should We Switch to VPS
A middle-of-the-road solution between dedicated servers and shared hosting is a balance that makes a lot of sense for many businesses. Such a service exists and is called a virtual private server (or VPS). VPS offers webmasters a way to host their own server, but without the higher costs and complexities of dedicated servers. Here’s more about whether VPS strikes the right balance for you.
When a website uses shared hosting, it shares memory, hard drive space and CPU cycles with other sites on the same server. If one site gets hacked, there is a chance that other sites on the same server can get hacked. If one webmaster uses up all the server resources, other sites on the same server suffer. Some web hosts place hundreds of sites on the same server, so each site is at the mercy of other webmasters.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Ceph and DevOps in the Cloud
Is your IT organization being pushed to increase the tempo of your software release cycles? Do you currently automate application builds and the creation of staging environments? Do you always test thoroughly before pushing code out to production? Does your hair catch on fire every time you put out a new release? IT organizations large and small are turning to the set of processes, technologies, and organizational practices called DevOps as a way to deal with the need to release software more often and with less trouble by changing the way the Development and Operations teams cooperate.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Uri Budnik, Director of Business Development at RightScale, will discuss how Ceph, a fully open source distributed object store, network block device, and file system designed for reliability, scalability and performance, is transforming DevOps.
Coraid Appoints Dave Kresse as CEO
Coraid has appointed Dave Kresse as Chief Executive Officer. Kresse will lead the company’s continued expansion into the enterprise and cloud markets, building on the company’s growth and award-winning EtherDrive® and EtherCloud™ platforms.
“Enterprise and cloud datacenters are undergoing a massive shift towards commodity scale-out designs and software-driven automation. Coraid is ideally positioned with top-tier customers and a proven storage platform to help customers deliver enterprise-class storage within an elastic, programmable cloud architecture,” said Kresse. “Coraid has the team and is delivering the right solutions to become the storage platform of choice for the world’s largest private and public cloud infrastructure buildouts.”
Kevin Brown, who has served as the company’s CEO since 2009, has moved to the Coraid board of directors as an independent director, where he will contribute to company strategy and key industry initiatives, including participation in the OpenStack community.
Coraid Appoints Dave Kresse as CEO
Coraid has appointed Dave Kresse as Chief Executive Officer. Kresse will lead the company’s continued expansion into the enterprise and cloud markets, building on the company’s growth and award-winning EtherDrive® and EtherCloud™ platforms.
“Enterprise and cloud datacenters are undergoing a massive shift towards commodity scale-out designs and software-driven automation. Coraid is ideally positioned with top-tier customers and a proven storage platform to help customers deliver enterprise-class storage within an elastic, programmable cloud architecture,” said Kresse. “Coraid has the team and is delivering the right solutions to become the storage platform of choice for the world’s largest private and public cloud infrastructure buildouts.”
Kevin Brown, who has served as the company’s CEO since 2009, has moved to the Coraid board of directors as an independent director, where he will contribute to company strategy and key industry initiatives, including participation in the OpenStack community.