Security through community: How the security group is building security into each OpenStack release

The OpenStack Security Group exists to actively drive security features, best practice and guidance into OpenStack services. In the last year a number of projects have taken off and are now ready for wider adoption in OpenStack. In this talk we review the various projects that are currently running as part of the OSSG and… Continue reading Security through community: How the security group is building security into each OpenStack release

Detecting targeted cyber attacks in the cloud

These days, we see an increasing number of cyber-attacks affecting both public and private clouds. According to reports by antivirus companies, clouds can be used by botnets as well as by special services or cyber criminals to run targeted attacks with the purpose of collecting sensitive information in enterprise networks or government institutions. Current detection… Continue reading Detecting targeted cyber attacks in the cloud

Magnus Cloud Introduces Breakthrough Approach in Defending Against Bot-based Cyber Attacks

Magnus Cloud announced today general availability of its cloud-based service that represents a significant breakthrough in defending against the most dangerous Cyber-attacks, including sophisticated bot-based attacks at Layer 7/application layer. Using a deterministic protocol that can always identify whether a bot is hostile or benign, the service eliminates the intrinsic weakness of signature-based approaches used… Continue reading Magnus Cloud Introduces Breakthrough Approach in Defending Against Bot-based Cyber Attacks

New McAfee Server Security Suites Offer Comprehensive Protection for the Hybrid Data Center

Mworld US 2014 Today McAfee, part of Intel Security, announced key advancements to its Server Security Suites portfolio, which includes performance optimization and additional management efficiency to enhance security posture for servers deployed in physical, virtualized and cloud environments. These improvements strengthen an organization’s ability to discover workloads, achieve greater visibility, apply comprehensive protection with… Continue reading New McAfee Server Security Suites Offer Comprehensive Protection for the Hybrid Data Center

HyTrust Partners with Intel to Enhance Security in Virtualized, Cloud Environments

VMworld US 2014 HyTrust Inc., the Cloud Security Automation Company, today announced that, building on technologies from Intel Corporation, it has developed powerful new capabilities to secure applications and data in virtualized data centers and the cloud. New HyTrust Boundary Controls let organizations proactively control where their virtual workloads can run, going much further than… Continue reading HyTrust Partners with Intel to Enhance Security in Virtualized, Cloud Environments

McAfee Data Center Suite Provides Elastic Security for Hybrid Data Centers

McAfee today announced a new version of its data center security solution that addresses enterprises’ growing need to leverage the scalability and cost savings of running workloads in public clouds like Amazon Web Services. When enterprises move workloads to a public cloud, they want to know their data is protected. The McAfee Data Center Security… Continue reading McAfee Data Center Suite Provides Elastic Security for Hybrid Data Centers

Private Cloud Computing Market & Forecast to 2015: Worldwide Analysis

The computing industry is witnessing a paradigm shift in the way computing is performed worldwide. There is a growing awareness among consumers and enterprises to access their information technology (IT) resources extensively through a “utility” model, a development broadly called “cloud computing.” Over the recent past, the interest in cloud computing has grown exponentially worldwide… Continue reading Private Cloud Computing Market & Forecast to 2015: Worldwide Analysis