Though the cloud offers businesses the opportunity to meet their computing needs with greater scalability, flexibility and cost effectiveness than ever before, it also requires new approaches to data security.
It’s Time for a Better IaaS Security Solution
Earlier this month, WinMagic announced the general availability of the new security software solution that provides full enterprise controlled key management and encryption for virtual works load running in public and private IaaS environments, SecureDoc CloudVM.
IT Decision Makers have their Head in the “Clouds”
Years ago, tech experts predicted that a new wave of technology would hit the scene and completely rework the way we, well, work. Cloud computing was viewed as the future of the enterprise – at the time, this mysterious yet highly intriguing concept promised to dramatically increased efficiencies that would enable companies to reduce costs and increase business flexibility.
Cloud Computing: You Are Responsible and Accountable for Security
It’s all about the data. I have been involved in cloud computing since 1999 (although we called it multi-tenant hosting & ASP – application service provider) and for sixteen years security has consistently been the #1 concern when organizations are asked about their adoption of cloud models. The concern does not reside with the use of a storage array they have no access to or the utilization of a virtual machine cluster in some unknown data center, it’s all about the data and sensitive information.
RSA Security Conference Report (Intelligent Key Management for the Cloud)
I was fortunate to be able to attend the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco last week. The conference was bigger than ever with lots of new vendors displaying a wide breath of security products.
Using the Key to Unlock Your Cloud Encryption Strategy
In 2014, WinMagic surveyed over 200 IT decision makers, asking about their company’s cloud storage policy…
Where There Are Clouds, There Could Be Rain
The cloud has become increasingly popular as the default way of managing many global business applications through its simplicity and cost effectiveness. As a result an increasing volume of data is stored there.