December, 2009

This is Roer´s take on security 2010! Please share your comments and your own visions in the comments below!

1. Cloud security

Recently a DDoS attack hit various services provided by Amazon which left many users wanting to access its various web based services.

We all are apprehensive of the security of our desktop or laptop at home. A single thought that someone might be tapping out network when we are keying in the Net-banking password or logging in to our email can run a chill down our spine. How do we prevent it all?

If you have an iPhone, you own one of the most useful communication devices anno 2009. When it first arrived, it revolutionized the mobile industry. Finally, there was a successful combination of a PDA and a telephone.

When I got my hands on the iPhone, I had spent more than a decade to find a tool that would give me all I wanted. Back in the 1990s, I used a Palm Pilot, traded it up to the Palm m505 with color screen, and loved the ease of use. I did hate two things - it´s lack of a phone meant I had to carry with me two devices, and no WIFI/Internet meant I had to couple it with my computer to sync it.

I am a gadget lover. I have to admit that. And that usually mean that I only review stuff I like, or stuff I want to like. I know that is a bit biased, but it helps me to stay away from stuff I don´t care about.

In search of my answers about the Cloud and its future I recently met Mr Tim Barker, Senior Director, EMEA Product Marketing (Salesforce.com) at the Cloudforce 2 event in London. It was quite a meet which did clear a few doubts & queries had about the Cloud.

In words of Tim “CC is the collective usage of computing resources over the net. Such resources may be infrastructure, platform or applications.” I did know a little about this & that the various organizations have been evaluating the model for quite some time. Also, Google and SFDC have a sort of close tie-up amongst them for promoting the Cloud services.

London, 14^th December 2009 - Imperva