If you ask IT execs why they're hesitant about moving to the public cloud, security comes up at the top of the list. But security vendors are responding to these concerns with a raft of new products. Here are four interesting cloud security tools that we tested.
More and more enterprise IT shops - as they get comfortable with <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/102510-burning-questions-virtualization-storage.html">virtualization</a> practices in their own private clouds - are considering a jump to the public cloud. But before making that leap, consider these pieces of advice from those that have already jumped.
Part two of <i>Computerworld Australia's</i> look at why Cloud security risks should be front of mind for IT executives planning a push into the Cloud.
The security of Cloud computing must not be taken for granted, an Australian startup has warned.
Multi-tenant cloud providers might promise greater resiliency, ‘five nines’ uptime and better security than some in-house managed infrastructure, but organisations would be wise not to assume the provider has covered all bases.
Ask an IT manager whether he's worried about the security of his Cloud computing provider, and you'll probably get an answer that sounds a lot like the one Karen Holt gives.
Imagine what would happen if all the Google engineers turned rogue and held the world’s Gmail accounts to ransom. Or if aliens attacked earth and wiped California off the map.
More enterprises will shift data into the Cloud as the service becomes more secure and physical data continues to be compromised, according to Google Apps US director of security, Eran Feigenbaum.
Cloud computing has the potential to be more secure than traditional computing, two security experts have said.
With cybercrime now the second largest criminal activity in the world, measures such as the creation of an 'Internet Interpol' and better cooperation between international law enforcement agencies are needed if criminals are to be curtailed in the future, Kaspersky Labs founder and security expert, Eugene Kaspersky, has argued.
Russian anti-virus vendor Kaspersky is expected to move to a new co-location facility this year as it moves to choose a new site for a purpose-built independent data centre in either Victoria or Western Australia.
Google has sought to reassure its three million global Cloud customers with the release of a video tour of its Hamina data centre facility in Finland.
Outages to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offerings over the weekend have received plenty of global coverage, but they left at least one Australian business frustrated.
An open approach to Cloud computing and social media may be preferred by users, but it is proving to be a nightmare for companies who take a locked down approach to security.
On Superbowl Sunday, HBGary CTO Greg Hoglund found himself locked out of his own e-mail account. As has since been widely reported in the media, the hacking group Anonymous leaked thousands of e-mail messages from the accounts of Hoglund and HBGary Federal's CEO Aaron Barr, chastising the company in a public statement.