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Cloud Computing and Security: SAML ID security Method of Choice for the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. A report by  identity management tools specialist OneLogin found that: 97 percent of SaaS vendors say that they back SAML 67 percent of

Cloud Computing: Reasons for Why Businesses are Adopting the Cloud

By Dick Weisinger

Global businesses are on track to spend $174.2 billion this year on cloud infrastructure and services.  That’s up 20% from the $145.2 billion of spending in 2013, according to IHS Technology.   Based on their report, spending is expected to

Cloud Computing: US Cloud Providers Lose Business from NSA Surveillance Concerns

By Dick Weisinger

A quarter of small businesses in the UK and Canada have decided to move their data out of US-based cloud services as a result of revelations that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is monitoring the data managed by those

Cloud Computing Security: The Road to a Secure Cloud is Likely to be a Long One

By Dick Weisinger

Security threats are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated.  A survey by Arbor Networks about Infrastructure Security found that: 30 percent of organizations report seeing Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) against their internal networks over the last year. All organizations reported seeing

Cloud Computing: Cloud-Wary Versus the Cloud-Wise Organizations

By Dick Weisinger

A recent survey by Internap, a vendor specializing in high-performance cloud infrastructure, categorized and compared the opinions of two distinct groups: the cloud-wary, or those organizations that haven’t used cloud computing, and the cloud-wise, organizations that are using cloud computing.