Cloud Trust
The Virtualization of Security and the Rise of Security as a Service
In the same way, the cloud emerged from software virtualization, cloud security can only emerge from the process of virtualizing security itself. As virtualization separated software from hardware, allowing enterprise software to ...
The Four Horsemen of Cloud Brokering
The concept of cloud brokering had been drawing more attention lately. In particular, Gartner has developed quite a bit of market analysis on the topic. Most of these analyses tend to focus ...
The Perimeter is Dead, Long Live the Cloud Firewall.
Today, we are announcing Symantec O3 early access program, a new approach to securing enterprise clouds. But what is Symantec O3 really about? No doubt, cloud is an inexorableIT trend. However, CIOs ...
Why mobile and cloud security eventually converge
The two hottest areas in enterprise security are undeniably mobile and cloud. As small and large security companies go after the fast growing markets, few seems to understand that both markets will ...
From Windows to the Cloud: "Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything transforms."
Every so often in technology, new trends emerge to drive large changes to society by transforming our established computing paradigms. Cloud as a computing pattern is certainly not dissimilar. The cloud carries ...
Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
Last week, the White House announced its official National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). NSTIC is the largest-ever effort by the federal government and private sector partners (including Symantec) to ...
Cloud Identity, Trust and the Liability Elephant.
I have been involved with a couple similar initiatives around certification for identity and thought it would be interesting to explain the logic behind these efforts. The first initiative is led by ...
Greek Heroes, Facebook and Trust
When Achilles was a baby, the oracle predicted that he would die in battle from an arrow. Thetis, Achilles' mother who did not want her son to die decided to dip Achilles' ...
PCI for the Cloud
For most enterprise and security vendors, the cloud is fascinating both as a technology and a business disruptor. In fact, SAAS CEOs such as Successfactor, SalesForce and NetSuite are hot shots in ...
