security

Last week, I posted the fourth installment in a six-part blog series about what it takes to have an enterprise-ready cloud service and the three characteristics (security, reliability and trust) that differentiate an enterprise cloud service from a typical consumer cloud service. In this series, I’ve discussed five aspects to look at when…

I recently released the first and second installments of a six-part blog series about what it takes to have an enterprise-ready cloud service. While the identity hack of Wired’s Mat Honan (and the media fallout that followed) spurred the idea, the focus is on the three characteristics that differentiate an enterprise-grade cloud service from a…

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…

Today we announced some exciting market momentum – in a July report, Forrester Research, Inc. named Okta a cloud identity and access management (IAM) leader. The report – “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Cloud Identity and Access Management, Q3 2012” – is a close examination of the top most significant cloud IAM providers, measuring each against a…

If one of your many usernames and passwords hasn’t been hacked lately, consider yourself lucky. Just this week, two more companies — Yahoo and the social question-and-answer site Formspring — announced major security breaches. The New York Times reported that 450,000 Yahoo accounts were comprised and according to CNET, Formspring had more than 420…

Security breaches occur. We’ve seen it time and again, but sometimes a company’s response and transparency about what happened – and why – can more than restore its customers’ confidence, but also showcase the type of company it is. Such is the case with CloudFlare, a web performance and security company that experienced a security breach last…

This morning, we announced some exciting company momentum — specifically around our rapidly growing customer base. Our customers (100+ and growing!) are diverse, coming from all industries, sizes and varying levels of cloud adoption. However, one very strategic trend we’ve seen is the growing number of enterprise class SaaS providers that are…

Last week, we talked about the some of the challenges associated with the use of consumer mobile devices in business. This week we wanted to dig a little deeper into what exactly these challenges are. In a recent post for TechTarget, Michelle Boisvert outlines where the security risks come into play with BYOD and how they require a strong cloud…

Passwords are a problem. The most secure passwords are robotic, nearly impossible for humans to remember and can lead to high IT costs through password resets or, worse, can pose serious security risks as employees take shortcuts to remember them. Imagine that familiar sight of a password pasted to a desktop with a Post-It note. In a recent…

The RSA Conference, the largest IT security show of the year, ended two weeks ago, but the conversations that took place are still reverberating. Chris Preimesberger, editor at eWeek, has identified a few of the major themes that are likely to impact IT departments in 2012: Web application firewalls. With the number of cyber data hacks rising,…