April 20, 2015, Cloud Security Alliance, San Francisco—Philippe Courtot from Qualys talked about global security and privacy as being an intertwined pair. Both are being threatened while users want more of each of them. The two concepts are parallels to Doctors without Borders in that they are working in areas of greatest need. To prevent…
April 20 , 2015, Cloud Security Alliance, San Francisco—Mark Goodman, an author, described the ongoing and increasing challenges for security and our other infrastructure. Many threats are already here and the potential for serious damage is increasing. Goodman started out as a police officer and noted many trends of crime over time. Criminals were early…
February 27, 2012, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco—A panel reviewed the next generation cloud security devices and services. Phillipe Courtot from Qualys moderated the panel whose members included Don Godfrey representing Zscaler, Matt Johansen from WhiteHat Security, David Lingenfelter from Fiberlink, and Patrick Harding from Ping Identity. What is the current level of comfort…
February 27, 2012, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco—Chris Kemp from Nebula, and former CTO of NASA, talked about the development efforts in creating an open stack for cloud computing through an open source community. The club platform is defined as an on-demand system that can scale quickly to any demand requirements and can have…
February 27, 2012, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco—Steve Harrod from VMware talked about the massive transformations due to virtualization, cloud, and mobile access. Security architectures need significant change to keep up with these transformations. If you are a chief information officer, your career is over. Users are raising and changing their expectations on functions…
February 27, 2012, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco—A panel discussed the various national and international standards for security. The challenges are that most of the standards are based on historical and legacy information technologies and they may not apply to cloud environments. Tim Mather from KPMG moderated the panel which included Mark Crandall from…
February 27, 2012, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco—Girish Juneja from Intel offered a broker model as an alternative to the growing complexity in cloud operations and management. People are finally realizing that enterprises are moving applications into the cloud. This been going on for many years, with examples like pay roll services on ADP….
February 27, 2012, Cloud Security Alliance Summit, San Francisco—Mike McConnell from Booz Allen Hamilton and former director of the NSA and former Director of National Intelligence talked about protecting state secrets in the cloud. As the drivers of technology and standards brings about changes, we have to add economics as another driver, because we need…