San Francisco-based identity firm Okta this morning unwrapped a new single sign-on authentication service that it says is the industry’s first integrated multifactor authentication.
It’s intended for both cloud and on-premises applications.
Zend Technologies took the wraps off a new cloud service for developing and deploying software developed in the PHP web server-side scripting language on Tuesday at the ZendCon conference in Santa Clara, CA. Called phpcloud.com, the service lets developers rapidly build applications based on a number of frameworks and then deploy them into production.
Security, cited as an issue with cloud computing when the concept began to take hold several years ago, remains a pivotal concern for developers, an IBM official stressed on Wednesday afternoon.
Federal officials defended their move to adopt cloud computing, stressing steps federal agencies are taking to ensure the technology does not present greater cybersecurity risks than already exist today, on Capitol Hill Thursday.
Researchers at North Carolina State University claim to have invented a technique for more securely storing and processing information in the cloud.
Cloud computing is a burgeoning sector, but according to the researchers, potential weaknesses in the hypervisor software that creates virtual machines could make sensitive data visible to others using the same cloud.
Apple announced that iCloud, a set of free cloud services, will be available on October 12.
iCloud stores your music, photos, apps, contacts, calendars, documents and more, keeping them up to date across all your devices. When content changes on one device, all your other devices are updated automatically and wirelessly. iCloud Backup automatically and securely backs up your most important information to iCloud daily over Wi-Fi whenever your iOS device is connected to a power source. Once you plug it in, everything is backed up quickly.
Amazon's Silk browser, used on the newly announced the Kindle Fire tablet, has raised privacy concerns because it directs all traffic through its EC2 cloud service.
The feature points traffic through Amazon's web servers to speed up connections and page rendering. But some have questioned whether this capability is too invasive. Amazon said in an FAQ that it would not collect personal user information but will temporarily store Kindle IP and MAC addresses, and an aggregate of websites that users visited for up to 30 days.
The European Union plans to introduce new data protection laws in November designed to ensure cloud providers are offering a safe service.
The Binding Safe Processor Rules (BSPR) will ask cloud service providers working in the EU to agree to be legally liable for any data breaches or losses that occur at their data centres, lawyers said yesterday.
Ever since cloud computing became part of our lexicon a few years back, the main showstopper, as seen by many enterprises, has been security. Many executives and managers are nervous about entrusting sensitive or competitive corporate data to offsite, and often unseen, third-parties.
A few months back, I spoke with a CIO who admitted, however, that he felt his data is probably in better hands with a well-trained, SAS-70 compliant cloud provider than trying to keep his own systems and staff up to date with security procedures and protocols.
As Netflix commits its future to streaming movies to customers, it relies almost exclusively on cloud services for its infrastructure, raising security concerns that require a new way of thinking, the company's cloud security architect says.
