Category: Cloud Computing

Some organizations are using Google’s G-suite as an enterprise solution for office productivity tools. The reasons are many, but the volume is too many to ignore. I use it for some personal documents, particularly ones I want to share with others. Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and the G-suite tools all have plugins or add-ons available […]

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 (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 […]

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 […]

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 […]