Cloud Vulnerabilities

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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Mitigate Your Social Engineering Vulnerabilities

Security managers spend significant amounts of time analyzing software vulnerabilities and patching the same.  I just looked at the Common Vulnerability and Exposure database (CVE) and see that it now has 47,555 vulnerabilities.  But how many security managers have analyzed or cataloged the social engineering vulnerabililties faced by their organizations?  I suspect few.  Virtually all security managers…

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