Although we have discussed securing data in the cloud before but we have not discussed IT data security in general.  I count at least 6 different places one can secure IT data-at-rest today.  In most cases, one has some sort of system to provide encryption/decryption services and some way to get encryption keys, generated, stored, [...]

A recent article from MIT’s Technology Review discussed cloud security (“Security in the Ether”). Most of the article was on how many cloud servers are vulnerable to a particular hack that can uncover private data in server memory/cache. But a good portion of the article was on how to secure data in the cloud and [...]

We have posted previously about the need for backup in cloud storage. So today I would like to start a discussion on securing “data-at-rest” within the cloud. Depositing data into the cloud seems a little like a chinese laundry to me – you deposit data in the cloud and receive a ticket or token used [...]