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Virtualization Security Best Practices from a Customer’s and Vendor’s Perspective

The next session during the ISSA half-day seminar on Virtualization and Cloud Computing Security was on security best practices from a customer and vendor perspective.  It featured Brian Engle, CIO of Temple Inland, and Rob Randell, CISSP and Senior Security Specialist at VMware, Inc.  My notes from the presentation are below: Temple Inland Implementation – […]

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 […]