Cyberthoughts

(updated 12/12)  There has been a bit of a buzz regarding access to citizen and company data by the U.S government and the associated risks ...

In this article in InfoWorld , Gartner makes an interesting point.   Data loss is a bigger risk than security in the cloud.   They almost se...

Updated: I came across a white paper published by CloudPassage , most likely in the attempt to drive interest in their cloud security pro...

I was on my way to a lunch appointment when I started thinking of the headache of managing patching in the cloud.  More importantly how wo...

This is a good article on how to close security holes for Google Apps users.  At the core is “two-factor authentication”.   I’ve written...

The first thing that prospective cloud users ask about a new cloud application is "What about security?".  It's a good ques...

UPDATE:   If you've read about Gmail account passwords getting stolen (hackers getting users to load a fake page and stealing passwor...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a major failure last week and there was a lot of buz about it since it took down several major web sit...

(Updated 10/25/2011) After writing about the benefits of cloud computing , I mentioned that it’s not without some risk and downsides. Clo...