These days, it seems that every cloud provider claims that cloud is safer than your traditional datacenter. Is it though?
In his General Session at 12th Cloud Expo, Rishi Bhargava, VP of Product Management for Datacenter and Server Security group at McAfee, helps you explore and address the security challenges and considerations for public cloud (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS).
Rishi Bhargava is Vice President of Product Management for Datacenter and Server Security group at McAfee, Inc. He is responsible for Product management and strategy for datacenter solution. A visionary and technology enthusiast, he is also driving all Embedded Security Products Initiatives at McAfee. With over 12 years of diverse experience in product development and product management, he has a reputation for turning small ideas into successful market leading products.
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Sourcefire Goes to Cisco for $2.7 Billion
Cisco, in a diversification move, is buying Maryland-based cyber-security house Sourcefire for $76 a share in cash and retention bonuses, paying roughly a 29% premium to Monday’s closing price of $59.08.
The pair means to combine their widgetry to protect users everywhere – from any device to any cloud – before, during and after an attack.
They say that the evolution of the “Internet of Everything” is making discrete security products useless against dynamic threats and that Sourcefire can provide highly automated, continuously aware threat detection including next-generation intrusion prevention systems, next-generation firewalls and advanced malware protection.
Five Tips to Improve Your AWS Security
A key advantage of AWS and the cloud is that it is dynamic and can be scaled according to need. That advantage, however, can cause security nightmares. With that in mind, here are five easy tips to ensure that you keep up your end of the bargain.
Use ‘least privileging’ when permissioning. What does this mean? It means use either the templates AWS provides or create your own to insure that users are not given more access than they require. Use AWS’ resource level controls. This is equally critical when considering programs that are gaining API access. Do not over permission and carefully control privileges.
AWS allows MFA. Use it for privileged accounts. Similarly, create and enforce policies to insure that passwords are appropriately complex and secure for all accounts. Ensure that your security groups are properly configured and permissioned.
Private Cloud Is Not a Euphemism for Managing Hardware
As with every technology, definitions almost immediately become muddled when it becomes apparent that the technology is going to «change the world.» SDN is currently suffering from this phenomenon and it appears that cloud continues to suffer from it. Let me present Exhibit AAAA:
Which Cloud Delivery Model is Right for Your Business?
Private clouds are great solutions for organizations looking to keep their hardware locally managed.
Google Cloud Platform – An Introduction
Google cloud platform has come up with great innovations in the field of web development and storage. It allows you to develop your websites, applications, data storage on the Google’s infrastructure. With Google cloud platform you can build your websites or applications faster without worrying about the scaling and servers. Google Cloud platform is like a big umbrella that composes of innumerable resources which make the computing, database management, storage and application development processes quite easier. Also Google assures reliability and robustness. The computing workloads are increasing day by day by leaps and bounds and therefore Google has introduced various cloud based services that run on its own infrastructure.
One of SAP’s Co-CEOs to Step Down
Jim Hagemann Snabe, whose contract was supposed to run through 2017, has apparently tired of his half of SAP’s CEO job and will be stepping down next May leaving the post solely to Bill McDermott, a 51-year-old American.
The plan then is for the 47-year-old Dane, who’s been responsible for SAP’s product development, to join the German company’s supervisory board (provided 25% of SAP’s shareholders vote for him).
Supposedly he wants to see more of his family. In a canned statement he said, “After more than 20 years with SAP, I have decided that it is time for me to begin the next phase of my career, closer to my family.”
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Securing Your Cloud
“With all the attacks that have been going on recently around the password where users are no long under threat individually but en masse, we decided to scrap the password and replace it with something visual,” explained Terry Woloszyn, Founder & CEO of Leeward Security Ltd, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Mobile Backend as a Service Is the New Enterprise Middleware
Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) has emerged as one of the hottest trends in today’s technology market. While most of the adoptions of MBaaS technologies have taken place in the consumer or B2C space, these platforms are starting to make serious inroads in the enterprise. In order to win in the enterprise and to overcome the firmly seeded taboos with the adoption of cloud infrastructure technologies in corporate environments, MBaaS platforms must provide very tangible solutions to the well-known challenges in the mobile enterprise.
When analyzing the characteristics of enterprise and consumer mobile applications, we can find marked differences between the backend requirements of both paradigms. While consumer mobile apps typically leverage social network profiles and public data sources, enterprise mobile solutions normally require incorporating backend capabilities residing in corporate systems.
Software-Defined Storage for Cloud Architectures
Cloud computing environments with on-demand access to compute, network, and storage resources require an elastic infrastructure that can be rapidly scaled and dynamically reconfigured. Virtualization combined with x86 servers has transformed the way we scale out compute resources. The alternate approach to infrastructure that virtualization has enabled, referred to as the software-defined data center, uses standard, commodity, scale-out hardware building blocks to create pools of resources. These resources are abstracted and delivered as tiers of services that can be configured, managed and controlled entirely through software. Unfortunately, legacy Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage architectures are rooted in rigid mainframe-era designs, and are fundamentally incompatible with the dynamic software-defined data center.
Next-Generation IT Solutions
In this hypercompetitive era faced with multiple technology transitions, businesses must change the game and transform how they engage customers to promote future growth. See Cisco unveil the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) Enterprise Networks Architecture, a game-changing technology that helps you capture new business opportunities by creating innovative experiences with greater IT simplicity and investment protection.
Hear customers discuss how they use innovative networking technologies to solve IT challenges and impact business.
Watch Rob Soderbery and Inbar Lasser-Raab introduce next-generation technology architecture unveiled at Cisco Live Orlando.
Learn about breakthrough networking solutions that will help you to stay ahead of technology transitions.