Getting Executive Buy-In for Cloud-Based Projects
The majority of IT professionals are pretty well aware of the potential (and projected) benefits of public cloud storage. Cloud services offer attractive scalability of resources, competitive pricing, pay-per-use pricing models, reduced administration and render data accessible from anywhere. Furthermore, public cloud storage eliminates capital investments for servers and storage. IT professionals are freed from [...]
Office 365: Model Compliance in the Cloud?
In mid-December 2011, Microsoft Corporation made some notable steps towards compliance with EU and US standards for data protection and security. This addressed the mounting tension around cloud services, caused by a number of high-profile data breaches and security scares that have plagued the cloud environment over the last year or so. This article takes [...]
City of Los Angeles Backs Out of Google Contract
In mid-December 2011, the city council of Los Angeles voted to amend their contract with Google Apps due to security and privacy concerns. Rather than transfer its email services to Google’s cloud, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) decided to back out of its contract, instead opting to stay with its on-site Novell platform for [...]
SIEM Solutions
Security information and event management (SIEM) systems have a great potential to enhance layered security networks. For instance, in the future, they can be integrated with antivirus protection, firewall, intrusion-detection systems and other security tools. At the moment, the majority of SIEM comes as standalone tools that collect, correlate and analyze event logs across a [...]
