cloud computing
August 14th, 2010 at 04:25pm
Under Virtualisation
I recently came across an interesting article on security issues in Cloud Computing, which outlined the key security issues associated with Cloud Computing, and suggests the two key methods of securing these systems are first data tagging to stop data going where it shouldn’t, and second, having a hardware root of trust like the Trusted [...]
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Tags: cloud computing
By Ken Y-N
June 16th, 2010 at 03:40pm
Under Virtualisation
The All About Microsoft blog on ZDNet had an interesting post regarding a new (and apparently relatively secret) virtualisation project for Cloud Computing. An interesting part is this: Bunker-V is focused on reducing the TCB [Trusted Computing Base] attack surface by minimizing the interface between the TCB and guest VMs by eliminating unnecessary virtual devices. [...]
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Tags: cloud computing
By Ken Y-N
May 4th, 2010 at 03:30pm
Under Advocacy
The official Trusted Computing Group blog (please, please fix your RSS feed!) recently published an article on Trusted Computing in the Cloud, highlighting how some of the key features that the TCG provide may be used within a cloud environment. For more details, the TCG has produced a White Paper on this very subject, entitled [...]
Continue Reading The Cloud and Trusted Computing
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By Ken Y-N
April 14th, 2010 at 04:13pm
Under Virtualisation
The curiously-named ElasticVapor blog from Reuven Cohen talked about his company, Enomaly, launching their ECP (perhaps Enomaly Cloud Platform) HAE (High Assurance Edition). The article describes the platform helps establish a trusted cloud platform by doing the following: The end customer uses Enomaly’s ECP HAE client, which uses our patented technology to verify the integrity [...]
Continue Reading Enomaly ECP HAE for Trusted Cloud Computing
Tags: cloud computing, enomaly, remote attestation
By Ken Y-N
April 14th, 2010 at 03:57pm
Under TNC
Network World recently published an article by Andreas M. Antonopoulos looking at how security works (or doesn’t) in the cloud. The basis will be NAC, Network Access Control, as: With NAC you have endpoints (laptops, smartphones, desktops, printers) connecting to switches ad-hoc and in a transient fashion. Security must be coordinated between the stuff that [...]
Continue Reading NAC, virtualisation and cloud security
Tags: cloud computing, nac, network world
By Ken Y-N
March 26th, 2010 at 05:08pm
Under TNC
I am always a bit concerned that if I search the Trusted Computing Group’s web site for "cloud" nothing jumps out at me, so I was pleased to see a detailed analysis of cloud security on Cloud Computing Journal by Steve Hanna of Juniper and the TNC workgroup of the TCG. It’s a subject I [...]
Continue Reading Cloud security and Trusted Computing
Tags: cloud computing
By Ken Y-N
March 24th, 2010 at 04:06pm
Under Advocacy
Here’s a video from the Cloud Connect conference that took place earlier this month, where an interview was conducted by David Berlind with Brian Berger of the TCG and Wave Systems: The original source on InformationWeek is here.
Continue Reading Video: How Trusted Platform Modules could improve cloud security
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By Ken Y-N
November 19th, 2009 at 12:48pm
Under Advocacy
Cloud Computing is one of these wooly terms that can mean just about anything, but in this article in Reuters’ Great Debate series Piers Linney tries to define it. Cloud Computing and Trusted Computing have quite a bit in common, as Rainier, one of the commenters, points out: A necessary condition for cloud computing to [...]
Continue Reading Cloud Computing is the future
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By Ken Y-N
September 21st, 2009 at 03:10pm
Under Virtualisation
Here’s an interesting post from the Parked @ PARC blog on a paper that the writer will be presenting at CCSW 2009: The ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop entitled Controlling Data in the Cloud: Outsourcing Computation without Outsourcing Control. Unfortunately a copy of the paper has not been published yet, as far as I can [...]
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Tags: ccsw, cloud computing, fujitsu, parc
By Ken Y-N
November 27th, 2008 at 09:36am
Under Advocacy+ TNC
I recently read a rather interesting post (both the contents and the writing style!) on how the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Interface For Metadata Access Protocol (IF-MAP) should spread to the cloud, in a post by Chris Hoff on his Rational Survivability blog, entitled I Can Haz TCG IF-MAP Support In Your Security Product, Please…. [...]
Continue Reading IF-MAP and Cloud Computing
Tags: chris hoff, cloud computing, if-map
By Ken Y-N