The United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) has put together a short guidance document on mitigating vulnerabilities for cloud computing. At only eight pages, it is an accessible primer for cloud security and a great place to start before taking on something like the comprehensive NIST 800-53 security controls.As a guidance document, it doesn’t attempt

While most large enterprises are moving to the cloud in some form, the path is never as direct as chief information officers (CIOs) and chief information security officers (CISOs) might like it to be. Most come to terms with the fact that the cloud won’t be a single offering, but rather a hybrid multicloud that aligns critical applications with cloud s

The volume of threats that security teams see on a daily basis can make it especially difficult to look at the big picture when it comes to developing an effective cybersecurity strategy. To see through the flood of data and alerts, organizations depend on actionable threat intelligence to help them understand and mitigate risks. Looking at long-term trends

From carbon-neutral clouds to net-zero data centers to completely renewable power, green technology is rapidly becoming a viable option for global corporations hoping to both improve long-term outlooks and align operations with changing consumer sentiment. Consider current projects by companies such as Salesforce, Apple and Toyota. According to Greentech Med

According to a recent Forrester report, enterprise cloud computing adoption accelerated in 2016 and will do so again in 2017. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) remains the largest portion of the public cloud market, with global spending expected to reach $105 billion in 2017 and $155 billion by 2020. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (

Co-authored by Chris Craig. To match the ongoing shift to cloud as a means of increasing agility when delivering services, the architectures supporting these services are also evolving. The cloud IT space is full of terminology such as infrastructure-as-code, highly scalable architectures and microservices architecture — a methodology that is gathering sig

Security is the primary focus of any government agency. One of the most obvious pitfalls of these agencies moving highly sensitive data to the cloud is that they surrender control to a third party. Moreover, nothing on the internet is truly secure, and all data is vulnerable to attacks and threats. The exposure footprint to those threats is staggering unde

Organizations are rapidly adopting new technologies such as cloud, mobile and the Internet of Things (IoT) to facilitate and accelerate digital transformation. Securing these environments means managing identities throughout the organization, and next-generation identity and access management (IAM) strategies must give IT the ability to swiftly enable cloud,

Migrating SAP to the cloud is a very timely topic. Many customers are either in the middle of a migration to the cloud, planning a migration or at least considering this complex move. This is a very sensitive and important action for organizations to take, so it needs to be well-planned to account for cloud security. However, there is no secret template or m

Organizations are adopting encryption at a rapid and increasingly urgent pace. Why? Because encryption helps organizations support dynamic industry regulations while also protecting sensitive data that’s placed in the cloud. The trend of adopting public cloud solutions continues to grow, but protecting critical data in the cloud is still a major concer

A surprising thing happened when organizations around the world got serious about protecting themselves, their data and their customers from sophisticated cyberthreats: They developed new, dynamic approaches to cybersecurity that fueled IT innovation and extended beyond the security realm to make enterprises more effective and competitive. On second thought,

We all know that data breaches have continued to escalate at an alarming rate in recent years. In fact, cybersecurity tops the list of IT initiatives for 2017, according to the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) brief, “The Importance of Securing Cloud Application Data.” Most of these breaches exploit security gaps involving sensitive data in establ

Cloud solutions can boost an organization’s ability to quickly adopt services and reduce the total cost of ownership. That is why chief information officers (CIOs) are looking to software-as-a-service (SaaS) to satisfy the demand for effective and efficient services that won’t break the bank. Despite the benefits, however, it’s important to

Sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same. Businesses are migrating from traditional on-premises maintenance of their hardware and software to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud at record levels. But any evaluation of such a move must include more than just the obvious costs of hardware and software. When migrating security to the clo

Government agencies want the economic benefits of cloud computing, but this alone isn’t always enough to make the case for change. To move forward, decision makers want to understand the security, privacy and compliance commitments of their cloud service provider. We continue to track and complete a number of attestations and compliance certifications, confi