cloud security in pictures

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  IN PICTURES: Datacenter Dynamics Asia-Pacific conference
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  Seven deadly sins of cloud security

• How to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data

  By Lucas Mearian | 16 May, 2013 09:55

  A growing number of SaaS providers offer secure encryption log-in to Dropbox and other cloud storage vendors, meaning even they can't access the data you store. And neither can the government.

• SMX makes significant investment into Australia

  By Julia Talevski | 15 May, 2013 16:54

  Cloud email security and hosting vendor, SMX, has made some significant investments hiring Mark Wilson as its new Australian country manager and opening offices in Sydney and Melbourne.

• The state of cloud encryption: From fiction to actionable reality

  By Debabrata Dash, Ph.D., chief scientist and architect, CipherCloud | 09 April, 2013 18:21

  The risks of data privacy, residency, security and regulatory compliance remain significant barriers to cloud adoption for many enterprises. While encryption seems like an obvious solution, historically the technology produced usability issues for cloud applications. To complicate matters, putting encryption into the hands of cloud service providers still left the enterprise open to risks such as insider fraud, hacking and disclosure demands from law enforcement.

• Dirty smartphones: Devices keep traces of files sent to the cloud

  By Brandon Butler | 26 March, 2013 22:02

  When smartphone users upload files to cloud-based services, remnants of those files often remain on their handheld device, even if the data is meant to be stored only in the cloud, researchers have found.

• Bomgar CEO talks mobility, cloud risks and old cars

  By Jon Gold | 19 March, 2013 16:10

  To hear founder and CEO Joel Bomgar tell it, he might never have started his eponymous company if he'd had a cooler car.

• Learn to fail and avoid the next cloud outage

  By Apurva Dave, vice president of products and marketing, Riverbed Stingray Business Unit | 11 February, 2013 20:05

  Outages with large public cloud providers aren't more common than they are with a business' own private infrastructure.

• IT security vendor Verdasys brings DLP to the cloud

  By Brandon Butler | 29 January, 2013 15:58

  Security vendor Verdasys says it's ready to bring data loss prevention (DLP) to the cloud.

• PGP Corp. co-founder's startup targets cloud authentication

  By Ellen Messmer | 26 November, 2012 19:00

  When Phil Dunkelberger co-founded PGP Corp. in 2002 with Jon Callas, it was to acquire the codebase for the famous encryption technology known as "Pretty Good Privacy" which had been sold to Networks Associates in 1997. That proved a good move for public-key encryption, and now Dunkelberger says his next project -- the formation of a company called Nok Nok Labs -- involves a revolutionary way to support authentication in corporate networks and the cloud.

• Cloud security not really slowing IT adoption

  By Bernard Golden | 20 November, 2012 13:47

  Cloud security has been discussed ad nauseum for years, and it's often cited as the biggest barrier to enterprise cloud adoption. Such conversations are misguided and ignore the larger challenge of cloud adoption: accommodating developers.

• Safety in the cloud

  By Art Coviello, president, RSA | 04 March, 2010 09:00

  RSA President Art Coviello's thoughts on cloud security.