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Tornado warning: Commingling of public and IoT clouds?

Credit to Author: James Cabe| Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:52:00 +0000

Clouds are tricky things. It’s hard to tell where the foundations of a cloud reside. You could point at the physical infrastructure. Some of the best side-channel attacks target hardware. There is the operating system that runs everything. And there is the middleware, billing, hypervisors, drivers and web front ends. The potential attack surface of a cloud service provider (CSP) or consumption market platform is gigantic.

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Rise of the Funnel Cloud: When Good Clouds Go Bad

Credit to Author: James Cabe| Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 12:50:00 +0000

In the simplest terms, the cloud allows users to store and access data and programs on someone else’s hardware, usually over the internet, rather than using their local device or network resources. But it is much more than simply offsite storage. It also includes services that allow users to replicate some or all of their local environment, from running applications to designing complex infrastructures. And it needs to be able to scale to lots of users. Simply put, you do not have a “cloud” unless…

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Partnering with an MSSP for a More Secure Digital Business

Credit to Author: Matt Pley| Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 12:58:00 +0000

In just the past few years, network architectures have begun to evolve from traditional, point-to-point connections between controlled network devices to a highly meshed ecosystem of interconnected networks. This hyper-connected architecture of traditional, private, public cloud, and remote networks and devices is being driven by the need to leverage data as both a competitive advantage and a new profit center. It is both supported by and driving the explosive growth of mobile devices, Internet of Things (IoT) and the cloud. Data…

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