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Guest Post: Making federated authentication work in the cloud

3rd May 2012

One of the greatest barriers to wider adoption of cloud services, particularly among smaller to medium sized businesses, is the challenge of access administration. Is federated authentication the answer? Andy Richardson, CEO of Influential Software explains all.

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Should every business be using disaster recovery in the cloud?

16th April 2012

While nearly all businesses have disaster recovery (DR) plans in place for their data, there are still less than 50% using off-premise DR capabilities. Evault’s Andy Brewerton explains why, when it comes to protecting data, a shift to the cloud should be something every company is considering.

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Could G-Cloud security strategy learn from Australian cloud?

4th April 2012

Paul Kenyon, COO of Avecto, explains why application whitelisting and security privilege management – which are at the heart of Australia’s government security – could also be applied to the UK’s G-Cloud strategy.

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Verizon report shows data breaches not “specific to the cloud”

23rd March 2012

Security may still be the hottest topic in cloud computing, but according to Verizon’s comprehensive report into data breaches yesterday, businesses should be more concerned about the actual data they are storing, as opposed to where it is stored.

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ISACA issues “six principles for effective cloud computing”

28th February 2012

One of the globe’s leading not-for-profit IT security associations, ISACA, has revealed its six principles for effective cloud computing – a guidance for new businesses planning to move from on-premise to utility-based computing.

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