Startup Taps Grid Computing For High-Performance Security

"Unified threat management (UTM) has been aimed primarily at SMBs and branches offices, largely because of performance issues. UTM appliances often struggle when running multiple security applications in high-traffic environments. Newcomer Red Lambda has a novel approach to this problem: grid computing. The company believes it can scale up security performance using an enterprise's own computing resources. The software-based product, FireGrid, leverages unused computing capacity to deliver application firewall, intrusion detection/prevention, anomaly detection and application-based traffic shaping at 10Gbit/sec speed, Red Lambda claims." Read the rest of the grid computing for security article.

Cloud Computing Frenzy Recalls Y2K

"There's no shortage of hype surrounding the migration to the cloud, where businesses are moving their IT infrastructure to increase efficiency and save costs. But what about the security, privacy and other concerns that come in tow?" Read the rest here.

Security of Cloud Computing Users: A Study of U.S. and Europe IT Practitioners - CA

Security of Cloud Computing Users: A Study of U.S. and Europe IT Practitioners - CA

"CA and the Ponemon Institute conducted a cloud security survey of U.S. and Europe IT and IT security professionals. The findings show that about half of the respondents don’t believe the organization has thoroughly vetted cloud services for security risks prior to deployment. It also showed that 55 percent of respondents are not confident they know all the cloud services in use in their organization today. Download it here.

Cloud Computing Security: IT's Take on State of Play

From CIO.com newsletter: "New Ponemon research shows that IT thinks security still needs much tightening not only in the cloud but also on premise. Will cloud force the matter -- or is IT's budget still too low?" Read it here.

Cloud Expo Summary

Here's one attendees perspective on the CloudExpo in NYC: click here.

Two key observations:

One; "In general, attendees have moved from being there to learn what cloud is to learning how they can use it in their business."

Two, "“Cloud Security” is still an oxymoron. No big surprise here. Customers know they want it, vendors and software companies say they have it, and few are getting or delivering anything close. I pointed so many people to the Cloud Security Alliance and CloudAudit projects that I’m actually tired of talking about them. There were a number of booths that said something like “We are the cloud security experts” – and from talking to them, there wasn’t a single person at the booth that could tell me why they were ‘experts’"