Category Archives: Security News
Microsoft moves to address customers’ concerns about cloud control and transparency
Microsoft is working on new features for its Office 365 cloud service designed to give customers more control over their data and more visibility into how it’s being accessed.
The company will expand Office 365’s logging capabilities to include user, administrator and policy related actions for Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. This will give cloud companies better insight into how their employees interact with content hosted on those services and whether those actions pose security or regulatory compliance concerns.
US plans Silicon Valley cybersecurity center
The U.S. government plans to open a cybersecurity office in Silicon Valley as part of its push to encourage closer cooperation between federal law enforcement agencies and the private sector.
The center will function as a satellite office of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), a day-and-night operation that acts as an information and threat clearing house for government and private entities.
Congress moves forward on cyberthreat sharing bill despite privacy concerns
The U.S. House of Representatives may vote on a controversial cyberthreat information sharing bill this week, despite major privacy concerns from many digital rights groups and security researchers.
The Protecting Cyber Networks Act “seriously threatens privacy and civil liberties, and would undermine cybersecurity, rather than enhance it,” said a letter sent this week by 55 digital and civil liberties groups, security researchers and academics.
Cloud Security Alliance highlights cloud security momentum and IoT security
When the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) launched in 2008, the questions around cloud computing centered around whether cloud was secure enough to be trusted, how it could be managed securely and in such a way as to keep regulators happy. There was also plenty of talk about whether cloud would fully displace traditional enterprise data centers.
Raytheon forms defense-grade security unit with $1.9 billion Websense buy
Ever since its acquisition of Q1 Labs back in 2011, IBM has been selling its QRadar security event management software in the traditional way, whereby customers pay a price and download the version they want.
On Tuesday, however, the company launched two new services that make the technology available through a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) model instead.
