Articles about Risk Management

Life After an Attack

All too often, hackers strike organizations that have fallen victim before…a little like rubbing salt in an open wound. Continue Reading »

rPath Previews Cloud App Automation Tool

The rPath Cloud Engine automates movement of existing applications onto a private cloud. Continue Reading »

When Is a Desktop Not a Desktop?

As technologists and security practitioners, we tend to lump like things together to reduce complexity and identify trends.  Continue Reading »

Google+: Should You Consider a 'Frenemy' Circle?

While much can be said about the concept of a "frenemy," common wisdom usually is to avoid them at all costs. However, that proves impractical in most cases, and the best bet is to keep tabs on those frenemies. Continue Reading »

IT Organizations That Trade Security for Performance Deserve Neither

Survey finds IT organizations routinely turn off security features to improve application performance.
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Lessons Learned From Lockheed

The recent cyber attack on Lockheed Martin turned out to be good news. The largest defense contractor in the U.S. turned out to have a level of security that even the best hackers sponsored by the country behind all of this couldn’t break. At this point nobody knows for sure where the attack really came from. Continue Reading »

It's 4 a.m. — Do You Know Where Your Cloud Provider Is?

Organizations are depending more and more on services provided by cloud service providers. The benefits of using the cloud are well-documented, including the ability to scale capacity in a manner that is impossible with conventional data centers. Continue Reading »

Verizon Outage Highlights Dangers of Leading Edge

Probably the worst thing that happened as a result of the April 27 outage of the Verizon Wireless 4G network was public embarrassment for a lot of Verizon Wireless executives. Continue Reading »

Managing Your Cloud Computing Risks

I’ll be the first to admit that I love cloud computing platforms, i.e., Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). To be honest about it, I’m utterly addicted to them. Continue Reading »

Looking for Meaning in SIEM

It feels like the whole issue of making it easier to correlate log information with system and security events is finally getting some long overdue attention. Continue Reading »

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