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Should You Encrypt Data Before it Goes to the Cloud?

American cloud service providers such as Microsoft are opening local data centers in foreign countries at the request of the respective foreign governments and customers located in those countries. The thinking behind this strategy is that data located in a particular country is subject to the country’s data privacy laws, which may be different from those in effect in...

Can Two-Factor Authentication Keep Your Company's Data Safe?

A lack situational awareness is hurting the ability of companies and the public sector to adequately protect sensitive information. Intellectual property, sensitive business data, personally identifiable information and infrastructure access, are at risk. Situational awareness in the context of cybersecurity involves the following three areas: Effective management of...

End-to-End Google Security with CloudMask

Over the years, Google has emerged as the world’s largest collaboration and business use platform. It has nearly a billion subscribers and a complete application ecosystem that comprises email, file storage, calendar, office applications and business collaboration capabilities. Most of these services can give small and medium businesses capabilities that match those only...

Man-In-The-Cloud (MITC) attacks; risk and solution

MITC attcks allow cybercriminals to access data and documents stored in popular file synchronization services such as Google Drive. Cloud storage has slowly but surely become the best method for sharing, backing up and remotely accessing data in all forms, from Word documents to movies to sensitive, personally identifiable information. So, given Google's position in...

How Cloud Computing is introducing new risks, and how Companies can protect themselves better

Many people feel that Cloud computing has been around for quite a long time, and intrusion into such technology is far from innovative. To them, it appears that instead of storing data on their own servers in a server farm, they now store their data in much larger clusters of servers in someone’s data center. The Cloud's threats arise from the sheer scale of data that...

Uncommon Sense: Security that Unleashes Capacity to Use the Cloud with Confidence

Common sense security says it’s no secret that when we go online, we take the risks of entering a war-zone. Cyberspace remains a domain of commerce in which rule of law is still emerging. As it relates to physical property, movement across the seas, or navigating in the skies, the law is well established, defined and enforced. But law and its enforcement in cyberspace...
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