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Canada Lags in Cloud Adoption Due to Security Concerns [Infographic]
By Klint Finley / July 8, 2011 10:00 AM / 0 Comments

According to data visualized in an infographic from Techvibes, Canada lags in cloud adoption with only 47% of Canadian business actively using cloud computing. By comparison, 70% of U.S.

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E.U. Seeks to Resolve Conflict Between Its Privacy Law and U.S. Patriot Act
By Klint Finley / July 6, 2011 1:25 PM / 0 Comments

Last week we told you about Microsoft's admission that, if compelled by the U.S. Patriot act, the company would hand over data stored outside the U.S. to U.S. authorities.

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Video: Google Offers Rare Glimpse Into its Data Centers
By Klint Finley / April 22, 2011 12:58 PM / 0 Comments

Google is famously secretive about its data centers, so a new video on its enterprise blog that gives a glimpse into the inner workings of its facilities is a

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Heroku's Security Slip-Up - Is It Time for a PaaS Security Certification Standard?
By Klint Finley / January 21, 2011 12:00 PM / 3 Comments

Today Heroku, a Ruby platform-as-a-service which was recently acquired by Salesforce.com, disclosed a serious security issue. The vulnerability has been fixed, and there is no evidence that it was

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5 New Tools for Salesforce.com Released This Week: Virtual Private SaaS, Cloud Billing and More
By Klint Finley / December 2, 2010 6:00 AM / 2 Comments

Dreamforce, Salesforce.com's annual user conference, is next week and the related announcements are starting to roll in. This week we're seeing an upgrade to Zuora's cloud billing system, a

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Monitoring Employees Online Behavior - When They're Not at Work
By Klint Finley / October 13, 2010 3:35 PM / 17 Comments

Mike Elgan at Datamation writes about a social media monitoring company called Social Intelligence. Social Intelligence provides not only social media screening of potential candidates, which seems pretty common

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3 Points on Cloud/SaaS Security from Google's Director of Security
By Klint Finley / September 10, 2010 10:00 AM / 4 Comments

V3 is running an interview with Google director of security Eran Feigenbaum. Feigenbaum makes some interesting points about cloud security and the possibility that cloud solutions might actually be

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5 Resources for Migrating to the Cloud Securely
By Klint Finley / August 31, 2010 12:30 PM / 8 Comments

A recent poll found that most enterprises that have already become infrastructure-as-a-service customers worry much less about cloud security than companies that are only thinking about making the leap.

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Can Google Solve the Cloud Security Problem for Enterprises?
By Klint Finley / July 26, 2010 4:30 PM / 3 Comments

Last week we wrote about Google's long term strategy to win over enterprise customers. But MarketWatch reported Friday on a short-term setback for Google enterprise ambitions: the company missed

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41% of IT Pros Surveyed Admit to Abusing Admin Privileges
By Klint Finley / July 7, 2010 4:06 PM / 1 Comments

Of the over 400 IT professionals who responded to Cyber-Ark Software's fourth annual "Trust, Security and Passwords" survey, 41% admitted to abusing administrative passwords to access sensitive or confidential

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Amazon Web Services Gets DDoS Attack and the Client Waits
By Alex Williams / October 5, 2009 11:17 PM / 20 Comments

An apparent DDoS attack on Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the weekend left a web-hosting code service down for about 20 hours before the problem became resolved. The attack raises

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