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Solving the Cloud Trust & Liability Problem

In April 2015 I wrote about “Intelligent Key Management for the Cloud”. In that blog I described the various models for encryption and key management for virtual workloads running in IaaS including: (more…)

Jan 22, 2018

Garry McCracken

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Physical Servers to Hyper-Convergence; A Need for Encryption

In the past I have tried to make the case for encrypting physical servers on premise. The argument for not needing to encrypt them is usually that these servers run for weeks, months or even years without being brought down,…

Oct 26, 2017

Garry McCracken

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Flexibility in IT

We often talk about flexibility in IT in instances of user-friendly experiences like knowing your Microsoft Word doc will open in Apple’s Pages, or the ability to accept or decline a meeting request from your iPhone with an Outlook account.…

Jun 1, 2017

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Requirements of Security Independence in a Virtualized World

As we evolve more and more to complete self-contained services like the mainstream Cloud services of Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and Google, I often express concerns about the Cyber aspects being coupled. Enterprises and users are, if they haven’t already, getting…

May 11, 2017

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5 Qs Security Professionals Should ask for Cloud Migration

Have you heard of the great migration of Modern IT to the Cloud? It’s not new, revolutionary or innovative, and many enterprises are doing it. But what we are seeing is, regardless of industry, migrating to a cloud solution is…

Apr 6, 2017

Aaron McIntosh

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RSA Security Conference 2017 and the Cloud

Last week, I once again had the pleasure and privilege of attending the RSA Conference in San Francisco. I heard estimates of a record breaking 40,000 attendees. It didn’t seem much busier than previous years but as another participant pointed…

Feb 28, 2017

Garry McCracken

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RSA 2017: Protecting Data Everywhere

The RSA Conference began in 1991 as a forum for cryptographers to gather and share the latest industry knowledge. In 1997 – just 6 years later – WinMagic launched into the data security market – offering software full disk encryption.…

Feb 1, 2017

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CloudSync: Last Defense For Intellectual Property on EFSS

If you’re like most people, you use tools like DropBox or Box to send and share your files via the Cloud. But how do you know that the files you share via these tools are safe? Do you trust the…

Sep 2, 2016

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6 Best Practices for Data Security in the Cloud

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. (more…)

Jul 22, 2016

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Proactively SecurE Cloud Deployments & Keep Control of Data

When you move into a new place, one of the first things you do is change all the locks. It’s important to your sense of security that you control who has access to your home. Changing the locks just makes…

Jun 20, 2016

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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. (more…)

Jun 7, 2016

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