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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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