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Anti-doxing strategy—or, how to avoid 50 Qurans and $287 of Chick-Fil-A

Anti-doxing strategy—or, how to avoid 50 Qurans and 7 of Chick-Fil-A
… to encounter a situation where no direct hacking occurred, and this piece reflects that. (Note: While someone who wants to complicate your life can obviously do far more damage with passwords or access to various bank, e-mail, cloud, or other …
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Cloud Security: How Can GRC Help?
To increase acceptance and adoption of cloud computing at your organization, there are ten must-haves that can be sub-divided into two groups – infrastructure imperatives and information security imperatives. The first set is the infrastructure …
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Google vs. AWS cloud storage just got a whole lot more interesting
For customers of either or neither provider and for those that have a very specific backup, archive, DR or static content hosting, Nearline could tip the scales in Google's favor. But always remember, storage rarely lives on an island in a provider and …
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Three pitfalls to avoid when creating failover algorithms on a PaaS

Three pitfalls to avoid when creating failover algorithms on a PaaS
When cloud outages occur, a failover mechanism is usually activated to fail over from poor performing servers to healthy ones. Cloud services continue to operate without interruptions during the failover. However, the failover mechanism doesn't always …
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Planning for the Future: Enterprise Cloud Trends in 2015
It's now becoming possible for organizations to invest in monitoring and management solutions that can work on-premise and in the cloud. As an example, the AWS OpsWorks product is now available for managing on-premise servers as well as cloud servers.
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Forget commodity hardware — now the cloud wants custom chips
The reason is simple: Intel can easily change chip designs and leave out unwanted core features or alter other properties, such as to gain compute and power optimization for public cloud servers. It's a matter of a few commands to the production …
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