Mark O'Neill

A full schedule today at VordelWorld with talks by Amazon, CA, Oracle, and others - not to mention Vordel product training. Here is a quick selection of Twitter and Reuters coverage: A sample of VordelWorld-related tweets: @Beaker : http://twitter.com/Beaker/statuses/5449668380 @cloudbzz: http://twitter.com/cloudbzz/statuses/5449973510 @SecurityCloud: http://twitter.com/SecurityCloud/statuses/5449821502 @joe_morrissey: http://twitter.com/joe_morrissey/statuses/5456985301 @joduba: http://twitter.com/joduba/statuses/5452804749 @scottsanchez: http://twitter.com/scottsanchez/statuses/5449738246 Announcements: Vordel Announces Cloud Service Broker to Bring Trust and Reliability to Cloud Computing http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS130253+05-Nov-2009+BW20091105 Vordel Appoint... (more)

Jill Tummler Singer of the CIA Speaks on "Cloud Safety" : +1

I saw this tweet this morning and I thought "+1" (I guess I am a geek if I am thinking in Digg/Slashdot shorthand). The problem is that in Information Security, "security" is all-too-often used to mean only encryption. A line is considered "secure" if it's encrypted. But often, the real "security" requirements are much broader and include management (as in access management, identity mana... (more)

Dead or Alive? There's an API For That

This week's Time Magazine has a piece by Gaelle Faure entitled "How to Manage Your Online Life When You're Dead" which describes what happens to online profiles, Webmail, and social networking data when someone dies. Consider "Deathswitch": Deathswitch, which is based in Houston, has a different system for releasing the funeral instructions, love notes and "unspeakable secrets" it suggest... (more)

The Neglected Flipside of SOA Security

Joe McKendrick kicks off a thread on the current state of SOA Security. As usual, most discussion of SOA Security applies to "how SOA can be made secure". This is understandable. And, as some commentators have pointed out, there is a body of Best Practice out there on how to secure services in an SOA. For example, Randy Heffner provides lots of good advice on how to secure the services i... (more)

Cloud Security on Ulitzer: Cloud Computing and Self-Service Security

Cloud Security on Ulitzer Hat-tip to Gunnar for this link to Hoff's post on "Cloud Providers and Security “Edge” Services – Where’s The Beef?" So here’s the rub, if MSSP’s/ISP’s/ASP’s-cum-Cloud operators want to woo mature enterprise customers to use their services, they are leaving money on the table and not fulfilling customer needs by failing to roll out complimentary security capabil... (more)