Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts a victim's files. The attackers then demand a ransom from the victim to restore access to the files upon payment. Ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly common, with billions...
Last week New York Times revealed that former USA state secretary Hillary Clinton used a private email account instead of official email address for communications while serving the State department. It is reported that Clinton used...
Cloud Computing = Low cost? Check again.
It is been considered that the cloud computing solutions reduces the cost of computing resources as far as organization is concerned. However, a recent...
Cloud Computing and Enterprise risk management
The number of organizations adopting clouding computing increases day by day. The COSO has published a thought paper on Enterprise Risk Management for Cloud...
Cloud Service brokerage
Many organizations source cloud services from different vendors which introduces various challenges to business including, but not limited to, billing, payments, access management etc......
Cloud solutions & PCI DSS Compliance
Businesses are increasing its dependence on cloud computing solutions. PCI DSS compliance is often a concern for many organizations when considering cloud or virtualized...
Google data center security
Found this interesting video in Youtube. It talks about the Google efforts on enforcing security across its data centres. The key security...
How long can CISO’s avoid Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is gaining momentum in the business world. More and more business wants to increase their IT usage on the cloud utilizing the...
NIST guide for managing cloud security and privacy
Cloud computing is gaining its popularity in an accelerated mode and many businesses and government entities are adopting cloud computing for supporting their business...
Cloud backup service . Risk and rewards
Cloud based services are on the rise. One of the service offered by a vendor is that it allows you to backup your data...
Cloud computing and Data security
Cloud computing is becoming a real trend in today.s business world. Businesses are increasingly opting for cloud based applications for their business needs. Various...
Data Protection and the Cloud
CA Technologies commissioned independent research in May 2011 to investigate the data protection and disaster recovery (DR) policies of organisations in Europe...
Cloud Security vsTwitter Security Incident
The recent incident at the Twitter on the information leakage shall not be considered as a cloud security weakness. Reading through various blogs and...