The article below states that Amazon's Web Services (AWS) outage did not violate their SLA; so, I ask do we now need to mandate in a SLA that geographically separate locations be used for high availability? Or, should one use multiple providers for high availability?
http://blogs.forbes.com/kevinjackson/2011/04/25/will-amazon-outage-stop-govcloud/
Monday, April 25, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Adobe's Zero-Day Exploit
I receive more and more spam every day and I hear of more and more attacks like this one (as well as RSA's). It seems that malicious code within a Microsoft Word document can exploit a vulnerability in Adobe's Flash Player.
I would think organizations would have their Office documents locked down due to the risk of malicious VBA, but who am I to think...
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Cloud Computing & ROI - Realistic/Practical Expectations
The Delaware Valley chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA-DelVal) is hosting a roundtable on Wednesday, May 18th to discuss many concerns, such as what is a practical/realistic expectation regarding the ROI for cloud computing. I believe the research data is not there yet, but it is only a matter of time before Gartner/Forrester, etc. come up with some numbers. What % are you expecting (for using a private/public cloud)?
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