Posts Tagged ‘security’
Avoid the Security Umpire Problem
Have you ever been part of a team or committee working on an initiative and found that the security or compliance person seemed to be holding up your project? They just seemed to find fault with anything and everything and just didn’t add much value to the initiative? If you are stuck with security staff that are like this all the time, that’s a bigger issue that’s not within the scope of this article to solve. But, most of the time, it’s because this person was brought in very late in the project and a bunch of things have just been thrown at them, forcing them to make quick calls or decisions. Read More »
Mobile Devices in a Cloud World
Someone recently said to me, “With everything moving to the cloud, mobile device security really isn’t going to matter anymore. Sensitive data will never be stored on the device.” The thinking is that sensitive corporate data will be centrally stored and not held on mobile devices. And with the proliferation of 3G and 4G networking, access should be available from almost anywhere. However, this doesn’t mean that we no longer need to worry about security of the endpoint device. Read More »
4 Tips for a Successful Cloud Migration
Guest Post By Rick Blaisdell, CTO ConnectEDU
Perhaps to recap some of the things that I have written about during the year, I would now like to propose a set of best practices for a cloud computing implementation, the ones that I believe are crucial. Here are the 4 most important aspects to determining the success of such an IT project: Read More »
Is the Cloud the Next Iteration of Data Security?
Sitting in a meeting with a partner of ours, who provides cloud-based desktop and application services, I was struck by a statement by one of the company founders. He said “Yes, we provide customers with an efficient way to access their corporate data, consume application resources in the cloud, and drive down costs. But I’ve always maintained that our number one value to our customers is that we protect and secure their data.” Read More »
Portable Datacenter – Cloud Datacenter?
What if you want to use the cloud for a DR site? What are the security issues? Some quick thoughts: Read More »
