Last year marked a 10-year high for venture capitalists in terms of deals and dollars. This year is starting off just as hot. Joyent just announced an $85 million D round, bringing its total to date to about $115 million.

With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference... We have technical and st...

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 comp...

Joe Menn explores the current cyber-crime landscape, the underground cyber-gang movement, and the motive behind governments collaborating with organized crime in cyber space. Maybe you can make your enterprise a little trickier to get into than the other guy’s enterprise, but crime pa...

Here are my thoughts on what we can expect in the cloud space in 2012. Cloud data will become more insightful for business as a whole With companies sitting on zetabytes of data, many organizations are in possession of tremendously powerful knowledge and insight about their employee...

CloudPassage delivers a server security platform that's been “purpose-built for the cloud,” according to the company. I spoke at Cloud Expo with Joerg Rathenberg, the company's VP of Marketing. Joerg was with IBM early in his career, “helping to build a new IBM in Eastern Europe as the...

In just the past year, the number of attacks are up, the costs associated with them are higher and more visible, and the risks of not securing systems and processes are therefore much greater. Some people have even called the rate of attacks a pandemic. The path to reducing these risk...

In Part 1 we discussed risk, security and cloud computing at a high level. Having been a part of design teams as a contributor as well as project manager to include security and assessment team management over the last few years, I still find the same security concerns and issues direc...

With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) now in its final day, Thursday November 10 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, here's who is round off the four-day event in our keynote hall this morning...none other than the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office, Jill T. Sing...

With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference... We have t...

With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference... We have t...

With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference... We hav...

With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference... We hav...

For many, the word “disaster” conjures up images of gale-force winds ripping rooftops off buildings or post-tremblor streets littered with concrete and rebar. IT, however, knows that the disasters most likely to interrupt a company’s ability to operate are not at the hand of Mother Nat...

What better time, with just a few days now to go before Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo), to bring you a series in which we introduce you in greater detail to our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference? We have technical and strategy sessions f...

Data security – with a focus on virtualization and cloud computing – was the topic of a CIO Roundtable held in Makati City, Philippines this week, produced by Computerworld Philippines. The conference was staged at the Asian Institute of Management. The “consumerization” of IT was a...

As enterprise networking technology has evolved, so too has enterprise security. What began simply as setting up a perimeter around the network via fairly basic security tools like firewalls and email gateways, has evolved into adding an array of virtual private networks (VPNs), virtua...

The security community has a growing number of influential and important people, especially as the industry rises to meet the need to address more advanced security threats, such as targeted attacks. But how does a company in the security industry truly identify the influential people?...

These days when we hear the term "cloud computing" there is an understanding that we are speaking about a flexible, cost-effective, and proven delivery platform that is being utilized or will be utilized to provide IT services over the Internet. As end users or researchers of all thing...

In the wake of yesterday's FBI seizure of servers, it is interesting to note that one of the industry's most seasoned executives, Abiquo CEO Pete Malcolm, has been anticipating just such an eventuality for a while. In a SYS-CON.tv Power Panel recorded on the eve of Cloud Expo New York,...

Zenprise has got itself a cloud, the ZenCloud that jacks its on-premise mobile device management software on up there. CMO Ahmed Datoo says mobiles are the cloud and that Zenprise means to protect the entire mobile enterprise end-to-end. It’s the first cloud-based security and d...

Kaspersky Lab believes it’s found evidence that crooks are using Amazon Web Services to spread “financial data stealers.” And that’s after EC2 was implicated in the recent attacks on Sony. Dmitry Bestuzhev, one of the Russian security company’s experts, traced the financial malware...

In the wake of an attempted hack at Lockheed Martin, the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday that EMC unit RSA Security is offering to replace the two-factor SecurID authentication tokens its 40 million users use to log into their computers “securely.” Most of its users are ma...

I'm afraid to say I spend a lot of time reading and watching programmes about our industry. Call me a bit of a trainspotter but I do find it extremely interesting. This week on a show on the BBC was quite a long item about cloud security, to be fair it really was around smart phone se...

"When the clock strikes midnight tomorrow, we will be giving terrorists the opportunity to plot against our country undetected. Now, the Senator from Kentucky is threatening to take away the best tools we have for stopping them." And with that, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reac...

When you're up to your (neck) in alligators, you forget that you were hired to drain the swamp. This insight is germane to Steve Riley and his talk, “Wading Through the Cloud Security Swamp,” to be presented at Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York. Steve's presentation is sch...

The Obama administration has announced something called “The International Strategy For Cyberspace.” It's being presented as something that's reasonable and reflective of a technology-savvy administration that understands the big cyber-issues and what to do about them. We should a...

Whoever hacked Sony and compromised the data in 100 million user accounts, reportedly the second-biggest US data theft ever, used Amazon’s EC2 cloud to do it. Bloomberg says the culprit or culprits simply rented a server using a fake name. It was quoting an unnamed source, who told...

Tuesday might not have been the absolutely best time for Sony to divulge that it, like so many others, is going to go skipping after Apple into the media tablet business later this year with two Android Honeycomb models code named S1 and S2. See, as the last of the top 10 laptop ...

Cloud computing represents today’s big innovation trend in the information technology (IT) space. Because it allows enterprises to deploy quickly, move swiftly, and share resources, cloud computing is rapidly replacing conventional in-house facilities at enterprises of all sizes. Unf...

‘In God we trust,’ yet the currency of the Cloud is at odds with trust. Is it possible to trust applications that reside in a Cloud that seems so porous? Cloud Computing Journal sat down with GuardTime CEO Mike Gault, whose keyless signature technology is used to secure cloud hosting p...

With Gartner predicting $150 billion in cloud-related revenues by 2013, the march towards “the cloud” is not abating. As the market grows, “Is the cloud secure?” is a very familiar refrain frequently asked by corporate management. While those in IT will certainly tell you no environmen...

The US Army has charged suspected WikiLeaks tipster Pfc Bradley Manning, 23, with 22 counts of knowingly “aiding the enemy” – a death penalty offense – theft of public property, computer fraud, and downloading classified information that was published on the Internet – obviously by Wik...

Delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors will be traveling from all over the world to New York this coming June 6-9 to attend 8th International Cloud Expo in New York City, co-located at the Jacob Javits Convention Center with 11th Virtualization Conference & Expo. Here is an ea...

Obviously, the answer is it depends … on your security needs … on what you are comparing it with … on which cloud offering you are looking at. Therefore, instead of providing a one word “Yes” or “No” answer let me ask you a set of questions that will help you answer the question for y...

As a practitioner in this area, it is striking how service providers such as Google Apps enable access to their service (corporate Gmail inboxes, Google Docs) via API keys. In the case of Google Apps, the key is used to sign a SAML 2.0 assertion sent up to log the user into their email...

As enterprises struggle to remain profitable in an ever-changing risk environment, the current economic crisis has elevated the need for effective business risk management. Information security is a key parameter that affects business risk. The academic definition of information securi...

I'm in the process of getting the Boston chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance started. I'm just waiting for the "paperwork" to go through, but I'm really excited about what I'm hearing from customers about the cloud. Coming from Oracle, you get a bit of the "Larry Hates the Cloud" mi...

Over the next few weeks, we'll investigate how the expression "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" could also be applied to the IT world, and what are the tools to foster preventive security through behavior modification. When looking at IT security, it seems that most of...

To make a long story short, the EU is serious about adopting Cloud Computing within its governmental structures. A recent report from the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), based in Greece, takes dead aim at the opportunities and challenges inherent in several ty...