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Security testing: why are cloud customers loath to be proactive?

Unfortunately, I think that all too often during this juggling extravaganza CIOs are dropping the cloud security ball. A cursory glance at the claims of a cloud vendor is not enough, and those who maintain that security is part of the service contract
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EU cyber security agency flags top ten cloud threats

Code injections and malware are the top two emerging threats to cloud computing, according to the EU’s cyber security agency, ENISA. In a newly published report, Threat Landscape: Responding to the Evolving Threat Environment, the organisation claims
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Fighting against the evil that lies within mobile phones

The Cloud Security Alliance has also been busy on the report publishing front with version 1.0 of Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Mobile Computing seeing the light of day this month. The timing couldn’t be better, and I hope that those
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VMware gets prepared to launch new cloud certification

working with a vSphere infrastructure, including configuration and management tasks associated with vSphere and should possess an understanding of basic cloud concepts including public/private/hybrid clouds, multi-tenancy and cloud security.
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Nobody ever got fired for partnering with Azure. Yet

So does Microsoft’s seemingly altruistic work at the software developer’s interoperability level filter upwards to make its total cloud stack something that companies just “have to” partner with? Do we see a situation here where nobody ever got fired
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Proofpoint to fight targeted malware in the cloud

Security specialist Proofpoint has unveiled a new cloud-based service aimed at protecting business users both when they are behind a corporate firewall and working remotely. The new Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection SaaS uses big data analysis
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EMC World 2012: EMC talks up cloud, security and big data

Storage giant EMC used the first day of its worldwide customer and partner summit to outline its thoughts on cloud, big data and security. During the opening partner day keynote at EMC World in Las Vegas, Jeremy Burton, the firm’s chief marketing
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