Evolving Threats To Drive Cloud-Based Security Market
Sales of cloud-based security services will grow 69% over the next 5 years, according to new research. This forecast comes on the heels of a big year in the market for global cloud and customer premises equipment (CPE)-based security services, which grew another 12% in 2012 to $13 billion, according to Infonetics’ just released Cloud and CPE Managed Security Services … Read more
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Tagged cloud security, DDoS, Infonetics
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Enterprise Cloud Security Solutions Still Have a Ways To Go; Report
Enterprise cloud security practices are improving (slightly), but there remains a long way to go, according to a new report. Only around 50 percent of IT leaders surveyed in a new report said they are confident they are aware of all of the cloud services in use within their organization, a roughly 5 percent improvement since 2010. For Mike Denning, … Read more
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Tagged cloud security, IaaS, report, SaaS
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Report: All Is Relatively Secure In The Cloud
One of the biggest silver linings surrounding cloud computing of late has been its exponential growth. Spending on cloud services is forecast to grow 18.5 percent to $131 billion worldwide this year, according to Gartner. But with this expansion comes the obvious question: Is it secure? Alert Logic, a cloud security vendor, released its new State of Cloud Security report … Read more
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Tagged Alert Logic, cloud, report, security
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RSA Coverage: Japan Offers Best Privacy and Security Policies for Cloud
If you want a secure and private cloud-computing environment, there is no safer place than Japan. On Thursday, The Business Software Alliance (BSA), the software industry’s international watchdog, previewed findings from the forthcoming 2012 Global Cloud Computing Scorecard. The pre-release only shows the scores in the privacy and security categories. The scorecard, which is set for a full release on … Read more
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Tagged cloud computing, cloud security, Cybercrime, data portability
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Organizations Moving Email to the Cloud Despite Security Concerns
The rapid pace of migration to managed services by organizations continues to gain momentum despite well-founded concerns over data security and complicated legal issues related to maintaining regulatory compliance. Leading the trend is the adoption of cloud-based communications with a staggering 83% of respondents indicating they intend to outsource their email needs to third-party service providers by the end of … Read more
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Tagged cloud security, Enterprise Security, Managed Services, Outsourcing
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Encryption innovations simplify the choice to deploy cloud applications
Security vendors are heeding the siren call to create more useful solutions to protect data going into the cloud. In particular, there is some real innovation in products designed to encrypt or tokenize data before it is sent to cloud based applications. Three of the more significant developments include: Format preservation Operation preservation Content awareness All three of these features … Read more
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Tagged cloud applications, content-aware encryption, dynamic encryption
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Bring it on: Companies push sensitive data to the cloud despite doubts
Companies are moving relentlessly towards moving sensitive data to the cloud, although many are skeptical about the cloud providers ability to protect and many do not even know what the providers are doing. Yet the beat goes on to more and more migration to the cloud. About half of the 4,140 companies queried by the Ponemon Institute in a survey … Read more
Encryption solutions for the cloud Part 5: Vaultive
This is the fifth and last in a series of posts on cloud encryption solutions. One of the issues with encrypting data is that the resulting ciphertext is difficult to work with inside of applications. The encrypted data usually can’t be sorted, searched or indexed in any meaningful way. Thus, once you put ciphertext into a SaaS application, some of … Read more
Encryption solutions for the cloud, Part 3: PerspecSys
offers encryption, tokenization for SaaS applications
This is the third in a series of posts on cloud encryption solutions. Security vendor PerspecSys is tackling the cloud computing space from the SaaS angle. PerspecSys believes that many organizations want to enjoy the speed and ease of deployment as well as the cost advantages that SaaS solutions such as Salesforce.com provide, but issues like data privacy, residency and … Read more
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Tagged cloud, encryption, PerspecSys, tokenization
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Encryption solutions for the cloud, Part 2: Gazzang is built for “big data” environments
This is the second in a series of posts on cloud encryption solutions. Gazzang is a relatively new company that is building a series of data center tools built for new cloud architectures, and specifically to take advantage of open-source infrastructure. The first product the company has brought to market is zNcrypt. It is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution to do … Read more
