Facial Recognition Is Now Easy to Implement: What Does That Imply?
Aug 7,
2019
Movies and television shows are full of scenes where individuals are recognized in huge crowds using facial recognition software. Until recently, some of those seemed far-fetched or maybe prohibitively expensive. That is no longer the case. Sahil Chinoy described a facial recognition demonstration in The New York Times. He and his team built a sub-100 […]
The CCSP Cloud Security Certification is Hot, How Can I Prepare?
May 21,
2019
The (ISC)2 CCSP is hot. That’s the Certified Cloud Security Professional. It’s from the same group that offers the famous CISSP. At the end of 2018 there were 131,180 people with CISSP world-wide, and 84,557 in the U.S.A. But, only 4,518 people world-wide held CCSP. Do you want to be one of the new ones? Not What […]
Office 365: It’s intuitive… Isn’t it?
Mar 26,
2019
Imagine you work in construction. You open your toolbox one morning to find that your saw is sharper and your drill more powerful than the night before! Not only that but some tools have disappeared and yet you have more tools than yesterday! Some tools you rarely use and others never! Whilst paying for all […]
What Cybersecurity Threats Do We Face In The Cloud?
Oct 31,
2018
Last week I wrote that compliance and complacency are major challenges in the cloud. Yes, defensive technology is the same. However, the cloud poses some specific threats. Multitenancy Multitenancy scares people the most. You share cloud infrastructure with other customers. Your cloud services are running on virtual machines. Those VMs run on shared hardware. You […]
cloud governance,
cloud sprawl,
compliance,
FedRAMP,
FISMA,
GDPR,
GLBA,
HIPAA,
hypervisor,
multitenancy,
NIST,
PCI,
PCI DSS,
shadow IT,
SOX,
speculative execution,
virtualization
What Are The Cybersecurity Challenges Associated With Cloud Computing?
Oct 22,
2018
Several times recently, people have asked for suggestions or warnings I might have about cloud security. What cybersecurity threats should they worry about in the cloud? I’ll share with you what I told them: Compliance and complacency No, those aren’t high-tech attack techniques used by elite super-hackers. However, they will cause trouble for you. Let […]
