Seeing images of the damage from Hurricane Sandy cannot help but instill in us a sense of urgency to dust off our own disaster recovery plans.B Now would be a really good time to use the experiences of companies directly affected by the storm for b real worldb […]
Read more →Ibm going to break from my theme and show you a tool that just might transform your life.B For many of the people I work with every day, it has provided the b next best thing to being thereb .B I will caution you, this is not a program […]
Read more →Are you encrypting your outbound data?B And, if not, why not? Sure, much of the communication we send every day is not sensitive.B If it fell into the wrong hands, it wouldnbt make a bit of difference.B Still, Ibll bet there are days when you send communication […]
Read more →Businesses are increasingly vulnerable to experiencing a catastrophic loss resulting from a security breach.B Besides the direct costs associated with mitigating a data breach, loss of brand equity and subsequent disruption to a business can be significant. You might recall the data breach that compromised Sonybs Playstation […]
Read more →In his lecture at UCLA on Amazon Web Services Cloud, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon and the technical lead of the worldbs leading cloud service provider, said, b At the end of each presentation, I face three questions: one, security; two, security; three, security.b Make no mistake […]
Read more →Not to b beat a dead horseb , but I need to remind you that you are already taking significant risks in the Cloud every day.B While there are many examples, if you use online banking you are exchanging convenience for information security.B In other words, you are at […]
Read more →I will admit to being pretty cautious in my adoption of the Cloud.B You see, I differentiate between data that is not really mine and my data. With online banking for example, the data I access isnbt really mine.B I am just being given convenient access to […]
Read more →We all use the Cloud in some way, shape or form.B And, for those of us that actually stop to ponder the implications, we realize that our perception of security varies dramatically. For example, we b trustb our bank to secure our financial information in the Cloud.B Thatbs […]
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