How Can Organizations Use Cloud Services Securely

As we all know, cloud service provider Nirvanix Company recently declared bankruptcy, let its customers into trouble. Nirvanix provides companies less than one months to transfer data. To avoid being relegated to the same situation as these customers, organizations should follow the best practices below to move data securely. Due diligence: The financial situation in the first Cloud security Alliance's February 2013 report, "the major threat to cloud computing in the 2013", shows that lack of due diligence is a continuing threat to cloud computing. When companies are evaluating cloud computing providers, their perception of things is ...

One, the charm of the management of cloud computing is that users can start using their ID card and credit card, but that's the problem. Such a simple service is bound to bring many challenges to the unprepared IT department. 　　We've been through this many times before: the benefits of a technology that are easy to use end up being an unexpected management challenge, such as virtualization, which causes virtual machines to become fragmented, new security risks to smartphones, and instant messaging that triggers corporate governance problems. This article is intended to show IT managers how to maximize cloud computing ...

Over the past few years, cloud storage and file-sharing services have continued to grow rapidly. Dropbox and other companies have launched their own cloud services, and important manufacturers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft are starting to work in the market. Market competition is extremely fierce, enterprise users can get a lot of free storage space. Of course, these services also have some restrictions, most of the cloud services are still focused on the consumer market. What if you want to build a virtual office with a secure enterprise solution? In fact, there are some less well-known in the market, but very attractive and features of business-to-business ...

According to the latest threat reports, deploying cloud services in 2013 will lead to new problems for most businesses, focusing on data continuity, data security, and reliability. Security company Sophos's 2013-year threat report warns that companies face new data security risks when deploying cloud services. Companies should address these risks during the contract negotiation phase, before the data is transferred to a large data center of the service provider. The security company's senior security advisor, Chester Wisniewski, said in some cases the cloud ...

Traditional client and server-side software technologies use a software solution called sockets to establish a connection. The use of sockets has not changed as the industry has grown from a static, fat client to a mobile thin client. But over the years, sockets have changed their shape and become more complex. As a result, this technology becomes difficult to understand, not to mention a comprehensive understanding of how sockets are used in the enterprise, or how they are used in conjunction with mobile and cloud technologies. This article will help you understand the concept of sockets, the type of sockets you can use for your applications, and use in mobile and cloud solutions ...

Want to know the truth about the data archiving program, want to know the inherent secret of the data archiving solution, only me to give you a full explanation. SafeNet, a supplier of the global Information Security data Archiving program for the data archiving solution system, today officially released a data security program that applies to the Cloud computing network application model. 　　Through this program, organizations can ensure the security of sensitive data in the cloud mode. The data information is the core resource of all enterprises--the enterprise utilizes the data processing business, makes the product and the service transform into the competitive advantage in the future. Therefore, the protection of data for the enterprise is to ...

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) presents some key IT operations areas that need to be focused on the organization's deployment of cloud computing resources: Governance and enterprise risk assessment, legal and contractual issues, electronic discovery procedures, compliance and auditing, information lifecycle management, portability and interoperability, business continuity and disaster recovery, data center operations, event response, notification and remediation, application security, encryption and key management, identity and access management, memory operations, virtual operations. In traditional data centers, build stable boundaries around the infrastructure and data that need to be protected, and place the tube in place ...

When cloud services are running smoothly and service level agreements (SLAs) are in place, business parties, businesses, and institutions may want to transfer data from cloud storage to different providers, but find it impossible to do so for some reason. One reason is that the data format required for API calls to store data in the cloud is incompatible with, or not interoperable with, API calls used by different providers to store data in the cloud. As a result, the business side will be confronted with data transmission failure due to the format used by different providers before choosing a provider to provide cloud services ...

Developers like cloud computing because it can be deployed soon after deployment; companies like cloud computing because infrastructure costs are reduced and users like cloud computing because they can get new features faster.　　But a few happy few worry, IT professionals in charge of enterprise information security are racking their brains to find ways to transfer applications and data securely to cloud services.　　One of the key goals of the IT organization has long been to strengthen the identity management technology and associated processes, and the security risks posed by cloud computing are no doubt a fallback. Companies can extend directory service validation to enterprise ...

Disaster recovery in cloud computing is a relatively new concept, and like many technology trends, there is a lot of hype and wrong information. In the "Storage" magazine article from Jacob Gsoedl, one can understand the top disaster recovery issues of cloud computing, such as security and data recovery, and whether disaster recovery in the cloud is a good choice for the organization.