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Everything You Need To Know About Cloud Security in 30 Minutes or Less

The last presentation of the day was by Rich Mogull on “Everything you need to know about cloud security in 30 minutes or less”.  It all started with all of the presentations and diagrams having pictures of clouds so some guy decides to sell that.  Makes security practitioners sad. Why the cloud is a problem […]

Cloud Computing Panel Discussion

Next up at the Cloud Computing and Virtualization Security half-day seminar was a Cloud Computing Panel moderated by Rich Mogull (Analyst/CEO at Securosis) with Josh Zachary (Rackspace), Jim Rymarczk (IBM), and Phil Agcaoili (Dell) participating in the panel.  My notes from the panel discussion are below: Phil: Little difference between outsources of the past and […]

About the Cloud Security Alliance

The next presentation at the ISSA half-day seminar was on the “Cloud Security Alliance” and Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing by Jeff Reich.  Here are my notes from this presentation: Agenda About the Cloud Security Alliance Getting Involved Guidance 1.0 Call to Action About the Cloud Security Alliance Not-for-profit organization […]

Introduction to Cloud Computing and Virtualizaton Security

Today the Austin ISSA and ISACA chapters held a half-day seminar on Cloud Computing and Virtualization Security.  The introduction on cloud computing was given by Vern Williams.  My notes on this topic are below: 5 Key Cloud Characteristics On-demand self-service Ubiquitous network access Location independent resource pooling Rapid elasticity Pay per use 3 Cloud Delivery […]