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Dark Reading's Cloud Security Tech Center is your portal to all the news, product information, technical data, and other information related to the topic of cloud security.  Written for those who manage cloud service provider relationships as well as security and IT professionals, the Cloud Security Tech Center is a single community dedicated to the discussion of security issues in private, hybrid, and third-party service provider cloud computing environments.

Breaking News

Revamp Mobile Policy To Secure The Cloud
A majority of employees bring their own devices into work and connect out to the cloud -- now it's time to gain greater control over the security of these devices

Crypto In The Cloud Secures Data In Spite Of Providers
With companies increasingly worried about their data in the cloud, a number of providers have cropped up to offer various types of encryption

Microsoft Skype IP Leakage Not New, Report Contends
Microsoft says it is investigating a report of a vulnerability that can expose the IP addresses of Skype users

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By The Numbers

Cloud Providers Have Fewer Security Incidents

The key factor is cloud providers can focus on security more efficiently than companies that keep IT processes in-house.

Cloud Providers Have Fewer Security Incidents

Source: Alert Logic's State of Security Report, Spring 2012

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Author Photo Cloud Security Certification Not So Simple
Posted by Jim Reavis
August 09, 2011

Current pass rate of CSA's CCSK is only 53 percent

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Around The Web

USA TODAY
Top Secret Visa Data Center Banks On Security, Even Has Moat
In an era when mobile purchases on smartphones and tablets are expected to grow 73% to $11.6 billion in the U.S. this year, securing the data center behind the cloud is important. Visa's Operations Center East is home to 130 workers, who are entrusted with the arduous task of keeping hackers out and the network up

INFOWORLD
Amid Doubts About Cloud File-Sharing Services, Enterprises Operate Their Own
Organizations with sensitive data say they're reluctant to turn it over to cloud services. Instead, they're buying file-sharing products they manage on their own for bulk file transfers among business partners

EWEEK
Saas Revenue To Reach $14.5 Billion In 2012: Gartner
Worldwide software as a service revenue is forecast to reach $14.5 billion in 2012, a 17.9 percent increase from 2011 revenue of $12.3 billion, according to a new report from IT analytics firm Gartner

INFOWORLD
Google Boosts Security Of Hosted Developer Services
Google has beefed up the security of its cloud hosted services for developers by making several of them able to authenticate interactions with applications using certificate-based Service Accounts

CIO.COM
In The Cloud, Your Data Can Get Caught Up In Legal Actions
We all know that the data we rely on to run our businesses can be subject to subpoena and other government actions. Such actions create additional risks when that data is in the cloud

NETWORK WORLD
5 Signs That You've Lost Control Over Your Cloud Apps
Password proliferation and orphan accounts show cloud apps are out of compliance with corporate security policies, as CIOs wake up to the reality that they've lost control over access to data stored in software-as-a-service applications purchased by other departments

THREAT POST
Cloud Service Linode Hacked, Bitcoin Accounts Emptied
Linux cloud provider Linode has warned customers that hackers breached a Web-based customer service portal used by the company and emptied the Bitcoin accounts of eight customers

CIO.COM
How Secure Is The Cloud? It Pros Speak Up
The cloud promises reduced costs and increased flexibility, but it also raises security concerns. Most IT professionals cite cloud security as a high priority, but a whopping 82 percent also trust it enough to use it

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Cloud Security Reports

report Monitoring And Measuring Cloud Providers' Security Performance
There is no ignoring the cloud, which means that IT professionals must find ways to monitor and measure the performance of cloud providers. While moving even in part to a cloud model is a big change for many reasons, the most significant difference is a loss of direct control. Just as security groups often struggle with managing security inside a corporation when in a governance role, we struggle even more with governing the security of assets that no longer sit within our own data centers. The challenge is to develop and implement a strong governance model for these cloud offerings that ensures that security is part of the conversation.

report How to Manage Identity in the Public Cloud
Use of the public cloud for enterprise applications complicates what was already a complicated task: identity management. As companies increase their use of cloud-based applications, IT and security professionals must make some tough and far-reaching decisions about how to provision, deprovision and otherwise manage user access. This Dark Reading report examines the options and provides recommendations for determining which one is right for your organization.

report Spot Trouble In The Cloud: Adapting Security Monitoring & Incident Response.
Security monitoring, incident response and forensics are essential, even in the cloud. But the cloud by definition implies relinquishing at least some control, which can make these practices problematic. In this report, we identify the challenges of detecting and responding to security issues in the cloud and discuss the most effective ways to address them.

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