Cloud Vulnerabilities

By Frederick Scholl | June 3, 2013 |

On May 31, the Cloud Security Alliance released a white paper entitled “Cloud Computing Vulnerability Incidents:  A Statistical Overview”.  This paper analyzes published cloud vulnerabilities reported in the news media from 2008 to 2011.  A total of 172 unique cloud incidents were analyzed to determine root cause and attribution.  The overall mission of the analysis was to…

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Cloud Computing: Trust but Verify

By Frederick Scholl | February 22, 2012 |

The rush to cloud computing has brought about amazing new services, but, without adequate vendor monitoring, businesses may be building digital supply chain risks that will show up later when cost and market pressures are felt by cloud vendors.  We can learn from business processing outsourcing experiences. The New York Times reports today a $280K+ OSHA fine…

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The future of information technology

By Frederick Scholl | February 3, 2011 |

We live in a time when information technology is turning everything inside out.  This presents challenges and opportunities for information security professionals.  I had the pleasure this week of listening to a presentation by Michael Rogers at LegalTech in NYC.  The subject of his talk was information technology in 2020.  Mr. Rogers designates himself as…

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