Lessons from Apple iCloud Data Leak
Blog Published: 11/19/2014
By Paul Skokowski, Chief Marketing Officer, AccellionThe theft of celebrity photos from Apple iCloud is a stark reminder of the need to think twice before storing data. For many people using a Mac the default behavior is to automatically back up and save data to iCloud. It's wonderfully appeal...
Shared Responsibilities for Security in the Cloud, Part 1
Blog Published: 11/24/2014
By Alexander Anoufriev, CISO, ThousandEyesIntroduction: Security Responsibilities in the Cloud EraWhen businesses owned their applications and all underlying infrastructure, they also owned their security. Now this is changing with a shift in ownership and operational responsibilities over man...
Shared Responsibilities for Security in the Cloud, Part 2
Blog Published: 11/25/2014
By Alexander Anoufriev, CISO, ThousandEyesShared Responsibilities for Security in the Cloud continues...Infrastructure Protection ServicesThis domain uses a traditional defense in depth approach to make sure that the data containers and communications channels are secure. For infrastructure pr...
The Apple-IBM Alliance: Illuminating the Future of BYOD
Blog Published: 11/26/2014
By Yorgen Edholm, CEO, AccellionThe mobile revolution, while firmly embedded in the consumer world, is now beginning to hit its stride in the enterprise world. This can be seen in the recent announcement from Apple and IBM, whose strategic alliance to develop joint solutions leveraging Apple d...
Right to Be Forgotten: Guidelines from WP29
Blog Published: 12/02/2014
Update: The final document regarding the right to be forgotten has been published. A new article, which goes more in depth, and analyzes the details of the Guidelines published by the Article 29 Working Party is available here: http://itlawgroup.com/resources/articles/237-right-to-be-forgotten...
CSA Guide to Cloud Computing – Now Available
Blog Published: 12/04/2014
By Jim Reavis, Executive Director CSA (Twittter @jimreavis); Brian Honan, President CSA Chapter Ireland (Twitter @BrianHonan); and Raj Samani, Chief Innovation Officer CSA & EMEA CTO Intel Security (Twitter @Raj_Samani)We are pleased to announce the availability of “CSA Guide to Computing:...
Zen and the Art of Acing Your Cloud Compliance Audit
Blog Published: 12/09/2014
By Mike Pav, VP of Engineering, Spanning by EMCWe all know cloud adoption is rampant, even though cloud security remains a big concern; a recent study from CloudEntr showed that 89% of IT pros said they were worried about cloud security. While IT admins are busy ensuring compliance for sanctio...
10 Must-Haves from “Cloud Security for Dummies”
Blog Published: 01/06/2015
By Krishna Narayanaswamy, Chief Scientist, NetskopeWe are excited to announce the availability of “Cloud Security for Dummies,” a book that my co-founders and fellow chief architects and I collaborated on based on our interactions with the most forward-thinking CIOs, CISOs, and cloud architect...
Compromised Credentials: A Risk for Your Business-Critical Cloud Apps
Blog Published: 01/08/2015
By Krishna Narayanaswamy, Chief Scientist, NetskopeWe are excited to announce the release of the January Netskope Cloud Report today. In it, we have our standard stuff – the latest cloud adoption numbers (this quarter, we report an average of 613 cloud apps per enterprise), as well as observe...
CSA Survey: Security of Cloud Data Now a Board-Level Concern
Blog Published: 01/12/2015
Security and Skills Gap Hold Back Cloud Projects While Shadow IT GrowsBy Cameron Coles, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, SkyhighA recent Cloud Security Alliance & Skyhigh survey shows that while security and skills gaps remain significant barriers to corporate-sanctioned cloud projects, end ...
The Truth About Encryption
Blog Published: 01/20/2015
By Christopher Hines, Product Marketing Manager, Bitglass“Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into another form, called ciphertext, which cannot be easily understood by anyone except authorized parties.” – TechTargetEncryption has gotten some much-needed attention over the past fe...
Limit The Damage
Blog Published: 01/23/2015
By Chris Hines, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassDespite investments in security, breaches are still occurring at an alarming rate. Whether the result of the world’s nefarious cyber criminals sending phishing or malware attacks through company emails, or insiders simply misusing sensitive da...
Cutting Out The Security Blind Spots
Blog Published: 01/30/2015
By Chris Hines, Product Marketing Manager, Bitglass When Henry Ford’s Model T was introduced to the world in 1908, with a list price of $850, it revolutionized transportation for the masses at the time. What many folks don’t know is that it had absolutely no mirrors attached to it. Early ...
What The Anthem Breach Means For Healthcare Security
Blog Published: 02/06/2015
By Christopher Hines, Product Marketing Manager, Bitglass"Healthcare orgs oh how we love you so, with your data so un secured no wonder we give it a go. SSNs, birthdays and addresses information galore, we can’t wait until next year when we steal some more.”This is the song that healthcare dat...
Anthem’s Breach and the Ubiquity of Compromised Credentials
Blog Published: 02/09/2015
By Sekhar Sarukkai, Co-Founder and VP of Engineering, Skyhigh NetworksThe year is still young, and we’ve already witnessed a breach of potentially historic proportions. Anthem Inc, the nation’s second largest health insurer, released a statement last week announcing the breach of a database wi...
The Dark Side of the Web: 14 Essential Cloud Usage Facts Every CISO Should Know
Blog Published: 02/12/2015
By Kamal Shah, Vice President, Products and Marketing, SkyHigh NetworksBetween frequent headlines on data breaches and the growth of Shadow IT, it is easy to be captivated with what people are saying, blogging, and tweeting about the state of cloud adoption and security. But the fact is – it’s...
Why Companies Must Adopt the ‘Assume Mentality’ When It Comes to Breaches
Blog Published: 02/27/2015
By Christopher Hines, Product Marketing Manager, BitglassRecently Target announced that the credit card data breach that they suffered back in 2013 ended up costing them $162M. Now, I know some may argue that to a company like Target, that number is a drop in the bucket, and you’re right. But ...
What Does Customer Managed Encryption Keys Really Mean for Cloud Service Providers?
Blog Published: 03/06/2015
By Todd Partridge, Director of Strategy, IntralinksHave you ever leased a safety deposit box from your bank? For years the security and privacy of a safe deposit box has been the standard in the physical world. People have put their most important and their most valued information in bank vaul...
24 Hours After FREAK, 766 Cloud Providers Still Vulnerable
Blog Published: 03/06/2015
The Average Company Uses 122 FREAK-vulnerable servicesBy Sekhar Sarukkai, Co-founder and VP of Engineering, Skyhigh NetworksThis week a group of researchers at INRA, Microsoft Reseach, and IMDEA discovered a widespread vulnerability in OpenSSL that has rendered millions of Apple and Android de...
A Few Lessons from Recent Adware Insecurities
Blog Published: 03/11/2015
<strong>Recent adware has made significant waves in some information security </strong><strong>circles for its security vulnerabilities and </strong><strong>for its potential larger </strong><strong>impact on one of the essential systems of trust that ...
