Category: Cloud

Cloud Encryption: It’s All About the Key Management

For security professionals, one of the primary challenges that arises with cloud computing is that they are faced with somehow protecting resources that, to varying degrees, they no longer have control over and for which traditional security controls like firewalls and IPS devices are ineffective.  However, regardless of which cloud model you adopt – IaaS, […]

Not All Encryption Is Created Equal

This is the second in a series of blog posts about how to address data security in the AWS cloud environment with the SafeNet product line from Gemalto.  Topics that will be addressed include: how to store data in the AWS cloud with customer-owned encryption, roots of trust, the importance of secure key management, encryption […]

Securing the AWS Cloud: Don’t Just Play It Safe, Keep…

This begins a series of blog posts about how to address data security in the AWS cloud environment with the SafeNet product line from Gemalto.  Topics that will be addressed include: how to store data in the AWS cloud with customer-owned encryption, roots of trust, the importance of secure key management, encryption and pre-boot authentication […]

Cloud Computing Migration: From Physical Datacenter to the Cloud

Companies right now are working out this concept of leveraging “cloudy” technology. Depending on the size of the company and the applications they’re using, there are many different aspects of cloud computing migration that are all happening at the same time. 1)      Moving existing applications out of the datacenter and into virtual private and fully […]