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Tag: cloud security
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Cisco Acquires Cloud Security Provider for $293M
Cisco Systems paid $293 million in cash today to acquire a cloud security provider that provides visibility and analytics around user behavior and sensitive data in cloud services. San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco acquired Waltham, Mass.-based CloudLock Inc., which specializes in cloud access security broker (CASB) technology. This marks Cisco's fourth acquisition this year and
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What’s Security Worth: $3.7M or Getting It Right?
Security — especially cloud security — is a popular subject these days. Security is changing, but is still a fundamental practice (or should be) in all organizations. Taking Information Out of the Caves So why all the renewed focus? The cloud is a big reason.
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Who Is Your Weakest Link? The Risks of Cloud Partners
Think your organization is safe if it minds its own security? Think again. You’ve also got to worry about security at all those companies you associate with, from suppliers and consulting firms to PR agencies, systems integrators, event planners and even heating and cooling vendors.
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Do You Know What Data Your Employees Are Sharing?
You hear a lot about Shadow IT these days. And we'll probably continue to hear more, according to Cameron Coles, senior product marketing manager for Skyhigh Networks, a cloud security company.
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How to Be Smart with Your Corporate Data
The cyber attack against Sony Pictures revealed a treasure trove of titillating sensitive corporate data: emails that revealed the true feelings of certain producers for certain movie stars, sensitive compensation data for employees up and down the company's food chain, and scripts of future movies.
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You May Have Opened the Door to Your Biggest Business Threats
It only takes one employee to create a monumental security nightmare. And that person may already be wreaking havoc at your organization.
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Was Amazon Web Services the Winner in Xen Cloud Reboot?
A cloud portfolio management provider has done some Monday-morning quarterbacking through cloud hosting customers affected by the recent Xen hypervisor problem and reboot for major cloud players. The winner? If you go by Rightscale's numbers released today -- they surveyed about 449 customers of Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and SoftLayer
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Are You Putting Productivity Ahead of Security in the Cloud?
All this talk about big data this month has us questioning the security of it all, especially when data lives in cloud, as most of it does now. A new report from SkyHigh about the risk cloud services present to organization sheds new light on our concerns.
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Skyhigh Secure Offers Friction-Free Cloud Security
When we talk about enterprise cloud security, we’re usually given a choice between using popular cloud services at the risk of compromising information or using a private cloud that puts limitations on users.
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Head in the Cloud - Is Your Enterprise Ready to Make the Move?
It occurred to me recently that people are talking about “the cloud ” these days almost as much as they talk about the weather.
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Amazon's Cloud Services Pass Muster for Advanced Government Use
No matter how much cash companies rake in from the private sector, everyone knows the big bucks are with the government. So, Amazon's new higher-level security pass will let it waltz right up to the pork barrels as .gov goes cloud.
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6 Security 'Must Haves' For Cloud Computing
Over the past few months, we've identified a considerable amount of research by both vendors and independent researchers that indicates many companies in the enterprise and SMB spaces are looking at cloud computing to cover their IT needs. The research also shows however, that security concerns are holding them back.
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Aberdeen Says Companies are Safer in the Cloud
While living in the cloud has become a popular option, companies remain skeptical. No matter how many security precautions are provided, when services like SaaS, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) are offered in the cloud, companies are tentative to employ them. Game. Set. Match.
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Top Considerations for Compliance in the Cloud
Cloud computing has been the hot new thing on the market for a while now. It’s what has the enterprise buzzing and apprehensive. It’s what has those in charge of governance concerned. Overall, working in the cloud is the best and worst thing that ever happened to the enterprise.
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