Kurt Roemer shared some time with Dave Vellante and John Furrier on theCube at the Citrix Synergy 2011 event yesterday. As the Chief Security Officer of Citrix, his insight into that state of the cloud and enterprise is one of leadership and reveals cutting-edge perspective. Starting with a basic definition of cloud security, on to ...

As of today the total number of attacks against Sony number nine in total.  The latest report is an exposure of Sony’s Japanese websites database by LulzSec, a hacking team that has exposed Fox in recent news.  The group has taunted Sony: “Stupid Sony, so very stupid” “This isn’t a 1337 h4x0r, we just want ...

The anticipated legislation from the Whitehouse on cybersecurity was delivered late last week.  As our preview had pointed out, it has fallen short of an effective policy for the nation altogether.  It hardly seems like the product of a policy two years in the making.  The new law has few legal requirements and little incentive ...

The importance of embracing business analytics to make better business decisions cannot be understated.  One of the obstacles for adoption of Big Data in the enterprise is an understanding of how to leverage a company’s data more efficiently and effectively.   Organizations that embrace this technology will have the opportunity to exceed where their peers cannot.  ...

The AP is reporting that the White House will be unveiling a broad cybersecurity proposal today.  Among the elements of the plan are expected directives aimed at better addressing system protection, enhanced monitoring of federal agency networks, and recourse after in the event that consumer information has been compromised. The proposed plan has been met by concurrent ...

IT Data Management company LogLogic has announced a major step in evolution from their alliance with VMWare in PCI Security Standard (PCI DSS) and expanded offerings in the realm of PCI compliance. The MX-Virtual product offering helps answer one of enterprise’s biggest PCI concerns: How to tackle PCI compliance in virtualized environments. The product helps you ...

The buzz around the upcoming EMC World 2011 is building around the convergence of Cloud and Big Data. As an expected 10,000 customers, partners, press, analysts and so descent on Las Vegas for the four-day event, the theme will highlight these technologies and as in previous events, major announcements are expected.  While some organizations continue ...

In the last couple of weeks we have seen two major outages of large internet behemoths.  One was the mammoth Amazon EC2 Cloud services environment, which experienced a significant outage last week that was attributed to a “network glitch”.  The other has been the extended outage and subsequent rebuild of the Sony PlayStation Network. In ...

Reports are coming in from the Pwn2Own annual hacking contest.  These things are always great to read about and fun to watch.  Apparently, the Apple Safari Browser was compromised in a blazing 5 seconds by using a specially crafted web page.  In preparation for the contest several of the leading web browsers released updates to ...

Earlier this week, reports came out about the latest scary Android malware threat, a being known as “DroidDream.”  Let’s just calm down and call it what it is.  This is a marketing ploy by the very company that released the report and the reaction to it is even worse.  Relax, Google has pulled these apps ...