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The Four Horsemen of Cloud Brokering

The concept of cloud brokering had been drawing more attention lately. In particular, Gartner has developed quite a bit of market analysis on the topic. Most of these analyses tend to focus on the business of cloud brokering. However, I find it …

The Perimeter is Dead, Long Live the Cloud Firewall

We are announcing Symantec O3 early access program, a new approach to securing enterprise clouds. But what is Symantec O3 really about? No doubt, cloud is an inexorableIT trend. However, CIOs and CISOs often cite security as a major concern. That is …

Why Mobile and Cloud Security Eventually Converge

The two hottest areas in enterprise security are undeniably mobile and cloud. As small and large security companies go after the fast growing markets, few seems to understand that both markets will rapidly converge to be serviced through a single solution. Yet, …

Needed Right Now: A Baseline for Cloud Security and Trust

For most enterprise and security vendors, the cloud is fascinating both as a technology and a business disruptor. In fact, SAAS CEOs such as Successfactor, SalesForce and NetSuite are hot shots in Silicon Valley these days. Yet, most of us are still …

Federation is the Key to an Open Cloud

This week is the week of the OpenID summit in Mountain View, California. We are all hoping that 2010 will be another pivotal year for open identity. There seems to be a combination of market forces that are making federated identity more …

Why the World Could Go M.A.D. [Google and China]

As the world already knows, Google and a few other prominent US companies got severely hacked around Christmas time last year. Sophos has an interesting analysis of the exploit. Web malware and a zero day vulnerability in IE6 were essential to the …

The Inexorable Convergence of Cloud and Security Services

Concerns for the security of application run in the cloud are running high. The perceived lack of security of cloud platforms is often cited as the primary obstacle to adoption. Whether "cloud" is defined as infrastructure as a service (storage and compute …

Trust assurance in open identity networks

One of key challenges in federated authentication network is the establishment of trust between an identity provider (IDP or OP) and relying party websites (RP). In the real world, contractual agreements provide a simple out-of-band mechanism to effectively bind two parties into …

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