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Cloud security

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  Bad outsourcing decisions cause 63% of data breaches

  Bad outsourcing decisions nearly two-thirds of data breaches investigated by security firm Trustwave in the past year

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  Business avoids cloud over fear of government snooping

  Almost half of IT professionals are deterred from keeping sensitive data in the cloud because of fear of government intervention and possible legal action, a survey has revealed

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Twitter resets a quarter of a million accounts after hacker attack

  Twitter has reset the passwords of 250,000 accounts after detecting and shutting down a hacker attack last week.

• January 25, 2013 25 Jan'13

  Encryption is safe bet, says SafeNet

  Encryption is the only thing that can give peace of mind to CIOs and CISOs, says Dave Hansen, president and CEO of security firm SafeNet

• November 12, 2012 12 Nov'12

  Gartner: BYOD will encourage self-support

  Self-support communities will offset the cost and manpower of providing a helpdesk for staff who use their own devices, according to Gartner

• October 16, 2012 16 Oct'12

  Organisations need alternative data protection as security models fail

  Organisations' security models are failing - so could it be time to adopt an intelligence-led approach to data protection and fighting cyber crime?

• October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12

  RSA Europe: Thousands of unprotected virtual servers exposed to the web

  Organisations are failing to protect data in virtual environments, says Jason Hart, vice-president cloud solutions, SafeNet

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  RSA Europe: Cloud key to future information security, says Qualys

  Cloud computing is an opportunity information security professionals should not miss, says Philippe Courtot, CEO of security firm Qualys

• September 27, 2012 27 Sep'12

  EC sets out strategy for EU cloud data and standards

  The European Commission (EC) has unveiled a strategy for standards and a legal framework for cloud computing in European Union (EU) states

• April 24, 2012 24 Apr'12

  Investigation reveals serious cloud computing data security flaws

  Context Information Security found that data stored by a cloud customer could be accessed by the next customer to spin up a VM on the same disk.

• December 29, 2011 29 Dec'11

  Is it the end of the line for antivirus signatures?

  Traditional antimalware can't keep up with the threat landscape. Are antivirus signatures destined for the rubbish bin?