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Tag Archives: resiliency

Are Perceptions About Cloud Security and Availability Overblown … and Wrong?

April 16, 2013 – 6:00 am – It appears that the greatest hindrance for organizations to move their applications and data into the cloud is concern about security and availability. While it is arguable whether or not security and privacy risks and system failure rates and durations are greater overall for cloud-based…
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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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The Quest for Secure and Resilient Software

July 19, 2010 – 6:00 am – Secure and Resilient Software Development (CRC Press, 2010) by Mark Merkow and Laksh Raghavan is a really good book. It addresses a key security area that is generally given short shrift, even though purportedly more than 70 percent of breaches result from attacks on the application layer. The…
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