Cloud security

Cloud Security Monitoring with Open-Source Tools

Introduction Security is an important aspect of our IT world, because there are many breaches in various companies taking place on a daily basis. There are m

Securely Managing Public/Private Keys for Cloud Services

Introduction In our daily lives, there are many services with which we have to use authentication in order to get access; be it personal services like our cl

Securely Managing Cloud Credentials

Introduction Cloud services have mushroomed in the past couple of years and are becoming widely-used by a large number of people and companies. There are man

How Cloud Encryption Has Changed in 2015 —and What the Future Holds

When mega-retailer Target was the victim of a data breach during the 2013 holiday season, more than 70 million customers earned that their personal informat

Windows Azure Platform

In Depth The software industry is relentlessly moving toward centralized computing. Due to this trend, software and data are being taken away from convention

Maximizing SSH Security Service in the Cloud

SSH service running on port 22 is one of the most widely used services on the Internet. There are numerous reasons for its widespread use, among which is dir

Top Cloud Computing Threats in Enterprise Environments

Introduction The cloud has been around for some time now and is still gaining popularity in every day operations of IT companies. I've seen different compani

Encryption of Cloud Data

1.0. Executive Summary Organizations seeking to protect sensitive and mission-critical data quickly realize that there is no single answer to keep all system

In Cloud Networking, Security Needs to be a Combined Effort

From our experience in the cloud, layers of security are best Cloud computing infrastructure is elastic, scalable, highly available, and accessible - but is

Authentication in the Cloud

Cloud computing is changing the way we interact with devices, software, data and processes. But some things never change, and one thing that remains true acr