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Cloud storage security less robust than you think
Cloud storage security isn't as solid as vendors want businesses to believe, says Lisa Vaas, who pointed to situations such as the Megaupload debacle , which resulted in millions of users--many of them legitimate--facing the very real proposition of losing their files forever.
Lower your expectations for cloud SLAs
If it seems to you like service-level agreements for cloud-based software services aren't as tailored, granular or thorough as those for more conventional IT services, trust your gut.
Customers on the hook for data security in the cloud
Cloud services providers are going to great lengths to tout their offerings these days, but when it comes to information security, they are making it clear that the buck does not stop with them.
Cloud Security Alliance offers registry of providers
Ongoing concerns about data security are keeping potential cloud computing customers away, particularly because it can be difficult to research and compare different providers' security measures. To
FBI insists cloud providers meet strict security requirements
Large enterprises continue to have reservations about the security of cloud computing, and apparently the FBI does too. The agency made it clear this week that any cloud providers who want to do
Where cloud providers will fall short in 2012
Cloud computing is poised to continue its seemingly inexorable growth in the year ahead, but the model remains a far cry from maturity. We can expect to see cloud services fall short in three main
Microsoft, HP team up to pitch public, private, hybrid clouds
Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) and Hewlett-Packard ( NYSE: HPQ ) joined forces to pitch a range of cloud-based services to highly regulated companies. Exchange, SharePoint and Lync services will be available
Do your compliance officials have it wrong?
If you sometimes feel as though the compliance officials in your organization don't quite get it when it comes to cloud security, recent survey data out of the Ponemon Institute indicates you're not
Cloud users feeling helpless amid outages
This week we heard of Microsoft's Office 365 cloud service suffering an outage , and while the problem appears limited to Microsoft's ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) North American data centers, the downtime no doubt
Dropbox's multiple security problems
Researchers have uncovered at least three different ways to access data without authorization from popular cloud-storage provider Dropbox. Presenting their work at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium
