Even though it may be your job to handle sensitive information, how you handle the data is just as important as how well it is secured.

Protecting your "Social" Security - Part 2

Survey results from Symantec have shown that half of all social networking at work is conducted for business purposes. Although bosses may cringe to hear that 50% of social networking done in the office is for pleasure, it may come as a surprise that personal social media in the office actually increases productivity (we'll get to that in a second). Although this is good news, many organizations don't have security policies in place to safeguard company activity conducted on social networks.

Store Non-Critical Data For Less Using Reduced Redundancy

One of the biggest players in the cloud computing industry is Amazon Web Services (and yes - they are related to the other "big" Amazon.com). One of their flagship products, Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a public cloud data storage system. Recently, Amazon launched a new lower-cost option called Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) making an already flexible storage system, even more scalable for customers.

Search Privacy

On May 13^th, Google announced that it will offer a web-encrypted search feature to increase privacy for end-users. We've asked our computer security expert, Ben Howard, to explain how Google is able to make search more secure with its new web-encrypted search option.

Ben says that Google allows the use of SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to connect a user's browser to their search engine.  The new site, 

Protecting Your "Social" Security

Your organization's cloud (whether it is private, public, or hybrid) is safeguarded by intruders through the use of firewalls, VPNs, SSL encryptions, and other security measures. However, what does a company do if proprietary information is used or misconstrued - that is information that was voluntarily released onto the world-wide-web? I'm talking about social media, where the world is a conversation.