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Tag Archives: Availability

Will Cloud Security Drive You Insane?

October 17, 2011 – 6:00 am – First, the transparency … I have known Jim Reavis, co-founder of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), for a dozen years or so. He is a true visionary. He met with me before creating the CSA and asked me what I thought. I told him to go for it. He did and has had remarkable success [...] …
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A Break in the Cloud

May 23, 2011 – 6:00 am – As the recent reporting demonstrates, an outage in cloud computing does in fact let the sun shine through … through to the realization that the cloud is not totally reliable and resilient. The recent experiences with Amazon and Google serve to illustrate this, although there have been quite…
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Availability and Response Time Affect Security

February 9, 2009 – 6:00 am – Availability is one of the information security domains isn’t it? If it truly is, then it’s something that we tend to ignore, leaving those worries to the operations and business continuity folk. Well, I’m of the school that considers system availability and integrity to be…
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It’s All About the People: Assessing Your Organization’s Network Perimeter (pt. 4)

September 9, 2008 – 6:00 am – Welcome once again to the risk rack. This time on the risk rack we will be continuing our review of how to assess your organization’s network perimeter. As a reminder the identified steps were: Step 1: Define the functions and purposes of your network perimeter. Step 2: Assess the technology…
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