Cyber attacks are growing in frequency and sophistication. The 4-month attack on The New York Times is fascinating (to me, anyways) in how expansive it was. Caron Carlson (FierceCIO) summarizes an article by Antone Gonsalves in CSO magazine. Lessons learned: Multiple layers of security are required. Close monitoring and analysis of application behavior is required. Sandboxing and whitelisting — while …
IT Security Risks (and ROI) Rising
IT Security is a big deal for many AIS clients — and the survey results described below help illustrate why that is so. The post is from Jim Kim of FierceComplianceIT and covers an article originally penned by Warwick Ashford in ComputerWeekly.com. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———– IT security risk still growing There was a …
Security in the Cloud: ESET & KWCG, Jan 23 at AIS
Security is a top priority for IT professionals. With the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing, there are major new concerns about virtualization security. Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013 3:30 to 5:30 pm AIS Headquarters 9305 Lightwave Avenue San Diego, CA 92123 Please RSVP by calling: 619-568-3538 x102 or email lkimsey@kwcg.us Speakers: ESET and KWCG Join us on Wednesday, January 23 …
451 Research Insights on Cloud Computing
The following are sections from the recent 451 Research articles on “2013 Preview: Cloud Computing” parts 1 and 2 by analysts William Fellows, Agatha Poon, Rory Duncan, and Katy Ring. I’ve selected the parts most relevant to the AIS audience. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ————– 2013 Preview – Cloud Computing Cloud computing is the …
451 Research Predicts MTDC Growth
451 Research continues to provide excellent commentary and analysis for our collective entry into 2013. The article below, developed by analysts Jeff Paschke, Kelly Morgan, Jim Grogan, Stefanie Beaubien, and Rick Kurtzbein, is a great overview of our own space, known as the MTDC (multi-tenant datacenter) market. Bottom line: positive outlook for firms like AIS based on the fundamentals of …
Moving Is Painful; Choose Your DC Wisely
Great article from analyst Glenn Ford from 451 Research talking about the real impact of a client moving data centers. Living so much in the virtual world as we do, it’s often easy to forget that a physical swap-out is far harder than just “Control Z”, reposition cursor, “Control V”. The considerations below are important to keep in mind when …
Risk Management Priorities for 2013
I read the article below by Ericka Chickowski in Dark Reading. Risk management, security, governance, compliance — all are topics of great importance to the AIS customer base. Let us know if you want help. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———————- 7 Risk Management Priorities For 2013 CISOs seek more discipline in measuring and mitigating …
HIMSS Survey Results re: Healthcare Privacy, Security
I picked up the article below by Dan Bowman in FierceHealthIT. While directly related to healthcare, the increasing focus on data privacy and network security could equally apply to other organizations such as banking and financial services, technology, e-retailing, and more. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing —————– HIMSS: Hospitals spending more to ensure data privacy, …
Cloud Security and Service Agreements
I saw this article by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO, which is written in regard to another article in Network World by Brandon Butler covering Gartner cloud security analyst Jay Heiser; both articles are re-posted below. The reason I felt them worth re-posting is because security is often cited as a concern about moving to cloud services. The tack of the …
SDDT Article: Cloud is Future of Computing Despite Security Concerns
The following article about the recent CommNexus Security SIG (Special Interest Group) event held at AIS was published in The Daily Transcript. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——————— Cloud is Future of Computing Despite Security Concerns The concept of the technological “cloud,” a term that is at once confusing and ubiquitous, has been around for …
