data security

Gartner: BYOD brings acute data leakage risks in cloud
The risk of data leakage on mobile platforms is acute, as some mobile devices are designed to share data in the cloud but have no general purpose file system for applications to share.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 10-May-2013

Anaplan CEO: What makes us smarter than Microsoft's Excel?

How may a business data modelling/ planning SaaS be useful to Finance, Sales and Operation with varying operation cycles? What is "hyperblock architecture?" What makes Anaplan's CEO think his software surpasses Microsoft's Excel and Access?
by: Carol Ko 06-May-2013

ISACA: 5 cloud governance questions BoDs must ask

ISACA issues in a white paper five key questions that the board of directors must ask to ensure consistent practices to maximize value and manage risk of cloud computing.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 03-May-2013
(ISC)2, Cloud Security Alliance creates cloud security pro cert
With the credential and first examinations to be available in 2014, (ISC)2 and CSA will identify the areas of required expertise, practice domains, and a globally accepted benchmark for the level of experience required to denote competency.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 25-Apr-2013

Study: Revealing the forgotten part of cloud security

Following the release of Microsoft Security Intelligence Report v.14, Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Director Tim Rains explains whether enterprises can guard themselves against the most prevalent cyber threats with cloud adoption.
by: Carol Ko 18-Apr-2013

Mandarin Oriental: Cloud keeps mobile workers in the loop

Mandarin Oriental adopts cloud computing to support mobile communications for its large mobile staff on all smartphone devices, instant communication and cross-device document sharing, plus mobile email access.
by: Carol Ko 17-Apr-2013

Mandarin Oriental's Single Cloud migrates 5K users to Office 365

Under the "One Single Cloud Service" project title, the 28-hotel group unifies its communication and collaboration systems using Microsoft Office 365, enabling US$300K-500K cost reduction per hotel over four to five years, and saving 20 IT man hours per month per hotel.
by: Carol Ko 10-Apr-2013
Trend Micro, HDS offer cloud security solutions in HK
Besides offering IT services including IaaS, file & content service, and SaaS in Hong Kong, Trend Micro and HDS partner to offer two cloud security solutions to help simplify security operations on cloud and define policies for encrypted data access.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 05-Mar-2013

Can old IT security skills be reskilled for cloud management?

While (ISC)2's latest study shows about 75% of the info-security workforce in APAC agree that cloud computing requires new skill sets, Akamai's Enterprise Security Director John Ellis said there is already a cloud-aspect to most of the IT skills that an organizations looks for.
by: Carol Ko 27-Feb-2013

10 steps to securing the extended enterprise in the cloud

Outsourcing -- from traditional managed and hosted services to the cloud -- extends the complex relationships of privileged accounts, users, data, systems and services, which are so critical to assessing and reducing corporate risk, well beyond enterprise boundaries.
by: Dan Dinnar, Cyber-Ark Software 26-Feb-2013