Category Archives: Cloud Computing
Report on Cybersecurity Black Market, by RAND and Juniper
RAND has published an interesting report on the cybersecurity black market. This report “Markets for Cybercrime Tools and Stolen Data” was sponsored by Juniper . (direct link to pdf). This report is good reading for any security professional, worth to … Continue reading
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OpenStack concepts via Ubuntu Cloud Live in VirtualBox
Ubuntu Cloud Live image is mentioned at Ubuntu’s site and instructions are given on how to boot the system from USB. This image is nowadays a little outdated (based on Essex release). For more serious experiments, please use more up-to-date … Continue reading
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Cloud Computing incident statistics, by CSA
Do incidents happen in the Cloud? And are we talking about? Which kind of incidents? To have some answers and views on these questions, it is worth to look the report by CSA called “Cloud Computing Vulnerability Incidents: A Statistical … Continue reading
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Flow diagram of payment card data, or personal data, in the cloud
The recent PCI DSS Information supplement “PCI DSS Cloud Computing Guidelines” emphasizes the same message as earlier guidelines like ISO standard “29100 Privacy Framework“ NIST SP 800-122: Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) NIST SP 800-122: … Continue reading
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Virtual Desktop and Cloud Computing, and Security aspects, via selected videos
I list here some selected videos of the subject, for learning and for sharing/generating ideas. Again, these videos are perhaps not the best set, but good videos which I have come across. Cloud Computing Short Videos to get the idea: … Continue reading
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Technical Reports from ITU-T’s Cloud Computing Focus Group are available
The work done by Focus Group Cloud (ITU-T) is now available as Technical Reports. FG Cloud has been finished, and further work will take place in Study Groups… This is interesting for anyone working in the area. The downloadable … Continue reading
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Cloud Security Alliance
If one wish to understand better security related issues in Cloud Computing, it is worth to have a look on the work done by Cloud Security Alliance. Their guidance document is available from their Guidance page. They also have a … Continue reading
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