Amazon Moves to Mitigate Threats to Cloud Service

Amazon said today that it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego. The report described how attackers could search for, locate and attack specific targets ...

We Can't Afford Not to Secure the Cloud

There have been many disruptive innovations in the history of modern computing, each of them in some way impacting how we create, interact with, deliver, and consume information. The platforms and mechanisms used to process, transport, and store our information likewise endure change, some in...

Cybercriminals in the cloud

From Forbes Charlotte Dunlap Security breaches continue to plague organizations, causing CIOs to question whether their traditional network security solutions are adequate for protecting against increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. Recently, it was reported that foreign hackers broke into t...

Q&A: Chris Hoff on cloud computing

Chris Hoff, the former chief security architect at Unisys and the author of the consistently insightful and funny Rational Survivability blog, is among the most sought-after speakers in the security industry and an authority on cloud computing and virtualization security. In this interview, he...

RSA Cryptographer's Panel: Cloud Computing Takes Center Stage

Not so surprising, the state elders of cryptography had a few things to say about the security of cloud computing — but with little agreement. Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, kicked off the cloud security discussion, stating that while securing the cloud computing...