by Ramon Krikken | May 7, 2012 | Comments Off
We’ve just finished parsing 1.5K data points in a customer-facing research project on mobile applications. We spoke mostly with development team members, but also had a few architects and other functions represented (we even had a person from a marketing team in the mix). The data is very rich, and we’ve spent considerable time deriving [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Security Tags: mobile, mobile applications, rest, security, services, soa, web services
by Ramon Krikken | April 27, 2012 | Comments Off
It must be Friday, because it’s definitely FUD-filled! Hide your valuables, because the VMWare ESX code leak is sure to cause IT systems to go dark around the world (and thus your alarm company’s systems too, I’m sure). OK, so enough with the hyperbole. Let’s be fair: it’s certainly possible that source code availability will [...]
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Category: Cloud Security Tags: cots, hypervisor, KVM, many eyes principle, open source software, oss, security, VMware, WMware ESX, XEN
by Ramon Krikken | December 9, 2011 | Comments Off
My colleague Eric Ouellet recently published “Is OASIS KMIP Yet Another Hollow Key Management Standard?” (subscription required). In the note, he raises several important questions around KMIP becoming a widely adopted standard. I share his concerns, and will be touching on this as well in my upcoming note about key management. Without going into the [...]
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Category: Cloud Security Tags: cryptography, encryption, fiefdoms, key management, KMIP, OASIS, vendors
