cloud security

With the rise of account takeover attacks and other password hacks, cloud security is an essential part of identity and access management control. The protection of data, apps, and user profiles in the cloud requires a different set of skills and programs. Weak identity management makes you vulnerable to attacks that impact traditional IT and cloud systems alike.

How Safe is Cloud Computing for Your Business? Our UK Team Weighs in to the Financial Times' Twitter Chat

When it comes to discussions around cloud computing in Europe, security often the tops the list of concerns. It seems that despite the many clear benefits of the cloud, organisations can’t seem to shake those security worries. What exactly are they worried about – is it regulation, or control? What can companies do to protect their confidential…

Cloud Framework Panel Recap: "Started From the Bottom, Now We're Here"

It’s not every day that a panel we’re involved in will prompt coverage with Drake lyrics. And yet, just that happened last week after our CSO David Baker participated in a panel on the ‘New Cloud Framework’ with executives from Druva, Birst and CipherCloud. As CITEWorld’s Matt Weinberger opened his story on the panel, “the cloud may have started…

Making Security Concerns a Thing of the Past: New Cloud Framework Panel

At Okta, we know that the cloud has become the standard for enterprises, making it easier to manage applications, mobility and the data sprawl involved with those apps and devices. And yet, with cloud adoption comes security concerns – another thing we know quite a bit about. That’s why we’re participating in next week’s ‘The New Cloud Framework:…

Encryption in the Spotlight due to Vulnerable Android Apps

Last week, Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin published a story detailing how downloaded Android applications have the potential to expose the sensitive personal data of more than 185 million users. Vulnerabilities due to inadequate or incorrect use of SSL/TLS protocol libraries expose everything from online banking and social networking credentials to e…

Defining the Enterprise Cloud Service – Part 2: Development for the Enterprise

Last Tuesday I released part 1 of a series of blog posts that discuss what it takes to have an enterprise-ready cloud service. (As a quick refresher, the idea of defining the enterprise cloud was spurred after the media fall-out from the identity hack of Wired’s Mat Honan.) In the post, I identified the three broad characteristics that…

Defining the Enterprise Cloud Service

The barrage of articles and blogs that cropped up following the personal identity hack on Wired’s Mat Honan got me thinking about the importance of security in the cloud. In my experience, what happened to Mat is not a unique issue. In fact, it’s actually a somewhat typical downside to – what I call – consumer cloud services. It was, no doubt, a…

Security Takes Center Stage at RSA Conference – and Other Cloud News

A smattering of cloud news from around the Web … RSA 2012 The 2012 RSA conference kicked off this morning in San Francisco. Featuring 19 tracks and 210 sessions, the five-day conference has already seen some major cloud security news from HP and RSA. What’s next? eWeek’s Fahmida Rashid predicts the major themes for the rest of the conference:…

When it Comes to Cloud Security, Everyone’s Got to Do Their Part

I’ve had a number of conversations with customers and prospects about cloud security recently and have been struck by how divergent people’s views are. Invariably, they fall into one of two camps. One camp, the “server huggers,” thinks the cloud is totally insecure because it is out of their control. These are usually IT people who have spent the…

Are Your Employees' Gaming Passwords Putting Your Enterprise at Risk?

So we learned last week that hackers successfully broke into one of Electronic Arts' systems, accessing a slew of users’ personal information, including email and mailing addresses, phone numbers and birth dates. The breach raises concerns about password security in the enterprise, especially as the consumerization of IT sees employees bringing…

Cloud: Death of the PC…Birth of Identity!

Richard Waters and Chris Nattal over at The Financial Times just wrote a nice article entitled Cloud threatens to end PC’s reign looking at the impact cloud services adoption is having on the PC. They do a great job pointing out that in this “post-PC” era, sales of PCs are still at 400m units annually and growing, but at the same time we are…

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