At InfoSec World 2018, March 19–21, I will be speaking on scale and security. I’ve talked about scale in the past, and about the different types available. Join me at my roundtable discussion at InfoSec World, “G4 Impact of Scale on Security: An Open Discussion.” Bring your questions and an open mind, and be ready …
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On February 19, my colleague Edward Haletky wrote a piece on scale. In it, he highlights that scale is not just about 20,000 desktops and 3,000 virtual hosts. Rather, there are many other metrics that could and should be considered with regard to scale. I am currently living in Perth in Western Australia. Perth holds a …
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May 25 is just around the corner. This is the day when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation [EU] 2016/679) becomes enforceable. That is correct: this regulation replaced the 1995 Data Protection Directive on April 27, 2016, but the transition period is now almost over, and it really is time to start worrying about potential …
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In the last Virtualization and Cloud Security Podcast, Michael White, a Veeam field product manager, and I discussed the gray market for security attacks. These days, performing an attack against an individual or company is trivially easy. What we used to call script kiddies have become a major business unto itself, sometimes protected by the …
It has been almost five years since VMware laid out its vision based on the ideology behind the software-defined data center (SDDC). This announcement came during one of the keynote addresses during the VMworld 2013 conference in San Francisco, California. Since that time, VMware has been working diligently to make its vision a reality while helping to shape the definition of what a twenty-first-century data center is and will be moving forward.
There is currently quite a bit of talk about cache side channel attacks within Intel and other processors. Attacks of this type read data out of the cache, force data into the cache, or force unbounded actions to take place. These actions lead to data leakage: leakage that is not easy to detect and has …
