Cloud Computing Strategies for the CIO-
Week of 07 May 2012 CSA launches cloud security certification initiative for service providers (10 May 2012)
Plan calls for working with certification bodies, government agencies, as well as an independent CSA certification.
Companies lagging on cloud security training (Security Bytes blog | 09 May 2012)
Symantec survey indicates companies don’t feel prepared to secure public cloud but aren’t leaping to get trained.
PCI virtualization compliance still a challenge (09 May 2012)
No black and white when it comes to PCI compliance in virtualized environments, experts say.
McAfee and Intel cloud computing security strategy unveiled (07 May 2012)
Companies offer up collection of technologies to help overcome enterprise concern about cloud security.
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Week of 30 Apr 2012 Virtualization security best practices in wake of ESX code leak (Security Bytes blog | 02 May 2012)
Virtualization security experts offer advice as organizations wait for more details about code leak.
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Week of 23 Apr 2012 AWS Marketplace offers one-click cloud security (Security Bytes blog | 25 Apr 2012)
Endpoint protection and vulnerability assessment are among the offerings in Amazon’s new AWS Marketplace cloud shop.
VMware downplays ESX hypervisor source code leak (25 Apr 2012)
Company says source code was leaked online but says may not mean increased risk.
Investigation reveals serious cloud computing data security flaws (SearchSecurityUK.com | 24 Apr 2012)
Context Information Security found that data stored by a cloud customer could be accessed by the next customer to spin up a VM on the same disk.
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Week of 16 Apr 2012 Cloud security vendors win funding (Security Bytes blog | 18 Apr 2012)
VCs bet their money on cloud security technologies.
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Top CloudSecurity Story
Cloud availability and resiliency: Planning for failure SearchCloudSecurity.com | 29 Jul 2011
Gartner advises companies to take responsibility for cloud service resiliency.