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Also "SaaS" Can Become "PaaS" If You're Not Careful The PCI Security Standard Council finally released its PCI DSS Cloud Computing Guidelines this month, and the Guidelines are not kind to Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, or to Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that behave like PaaS. In the document, the…
Had a great week in Austin last week, even managed to play some touch rugby with members of Team USA. After a short turnaround at home, I'm in Las Vegas this week for Microsoft Inspire. If you're attending MS Inspire, stop by the booth. You know I'd love to talk data with you. As always, here are some links I hope you find…
By Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting blog about the need to keep a continued focus on security. I can’t agree more about training and security checks as a useful method of keeping staff on their guard. I’d add that an incident response plan is a useful and often…
So far in this series we have reviewed a few popular and emerging models and frameworks. These tools are meant to help you make sense of where you are and how to get where you’re going when it comes to information security or cybersecurity. We’ve also started the process of defining a new, more practical, more…
The “cloud” can mean so many things to different people. Depending on who you ask, it could mean SaaS ( software as a service ) running Salesforce in the cloud but another person may say it's running servers on AWS. The definition of cloud can be cloudy but the transition to cloud is the same regardless of what your…
The day starts like any other. You’re finally starting to feel like you’ve got a handle on the security posture of your enterprise, because you’ve been able to add a reasonable amount of visibility into the infrastructure: * You have a Netflow collector reporting anomalies. * Taps or network packet brokers are installed at…
In a previous post I discussed AES as the only encryption scheme that protects data from snoops. In this post I want to report on a possible security hole in the virtual machinery of cloud computing. Let's first recall that scads of user data are in the warehouses hooked up to those clouds. Personal information kept in…
While reading a recent blog post on SlashDot, my mind was opened by some touching SysAdmin poetry. While not a lethal as Vogon verse, I promise it will alter your mood. FTFY by Neo-Rio-101 I don't want my data in the cloud I don't want my data in a crowd I don't want my data on the net I don't want my data on diskette I…
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