cloud security
Nessus in the cloud
The Nessus vulnerability scanner features high-speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of an …
Cisco estimates huge shift to the cloud by 2013
Nearly 12 percent of enterprise workloads will run in the public cloud by the end of 2013, according to Cisco. Their study found that desktop applications, email, …
Dropbox 1.0.0 RC: Selective sync, bug fixes and improvements
The popular online backup, file sync and sharing service Dropbox released version 1.0.0 RC of their desktop client. Here’s what has been fixed since 0.8.114: Stop the …
Amazon launches new DNS service in the cloud
Amazon Web Services announced Route 53, a DNS web service giving a way to route Internet traffic to web applications by translating human readable names into numeric IP …
Online backup Mozy 2.0 for Mac released
Mozy 2.0 for Mac is now available. With improved features and a native-Mac experience, it makes it easier and faster for Mac users to run and monitor backups and restores …
Cloud-based crack of SHA-1 passwords is a taste of things to come
Reports that a German hacker has successfully cracked a secure hashing algorithm (SHA-1) password using a pay-as-you-use cloud computing based parallel processing environment …
Toolkit to implement and assess cloud security
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced the free download of the CSA Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) Stack, a suite of enabling tools for GRC in the …
Top 10 security threats for 2011
Imperva announced their predictions for the top ten security trends for 2011 which have been compiled to help IT security professionals defend their organization against the …
Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.3 released
Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.3 features a new security safeguard against malicious websites, as well as improvements to the user experience, in both the Free and Pro Editions. The …
Automated data protection for private clouds
EMC announced their new Data Protection Advisor management software that automatically monitors, analyzes, provides alerts and reports on all aspects of the protection status …
CloudAudit joins the Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced that CloudAudit has become an official project of the CSA, with the joint mission of promoting the use of best practices for …
80% of firms don’t know who should secure cloud data
The cloud is still akin to the Wild West when it comes to the security of the data hosted there, according to Courion. In fact, 1 in 7 companies admit that they know there are …
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