by Jay Heiser | April 16, 2012 | Comments Off
Sometimes when you spend a week on vacation, you like to leave work behind, so I was a little bit surprised during my morning coffee last week to hear an NPR story on MegaUpload. They managed to find someone who, through explainable circumstances, had lost all other copies of his valuable files, leaving the inaccessible [...]
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Category: Cloud risk management Tags: Cloud, cloud risks, Megaupload
by Jay Heiser | February 1, 2010 | 5 Comments
When the global financial services firms melted down in late 2007, much of the blame was attributed to an over-reliance on a highly-leveraged financial abstraction called a Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO). As described in a recent blog entry by Gartner analyst Andrew White, Cheap money, sloshing around the place, feeding an insatiable growth in demand [...]
Category: Cloud risk management security Tags: CDO, Cloud, cloud risks, cloud security, risk assessment, vendor viability
