Warning: snarkyiness ahead. Several people have emailed me and asked my opinion on the Securosis Dropbox post. They ask if it is an “about-face”. In the past this company has boasted how they are among the very few who understand cloud security. The number of people who truly understand cloud computing is small. And folks … Continue reading Securosis to Cloud: Wakey Wakey
I like this analysis from 2009 by Jim Starkey, President of NimbusDB. It’s buried towards the end of a long post by Todd Hoff at High Scalability. I’ve probably said this before, but the cloud is a new computing platform that some have learned to exploit, others are scrambling to master, but most people will … Continue reading How Cloud Will Kill Everything Before It
Richard White, author of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America will, next Thursday evening at Presidio of San Francisco, lecture about security and the history of transportation as a service. One justification for federal funding of the transcontinental railroads was the need to save California for the Union, but by the time … Continue reading Railroaded
Eddie Schwartz, CSO at a part of RSA (NetWitness), will take on the title of CSO at RSA. This confirms both that NetWitness was involved in the response to the recent RSA breach and that Mel Brooks is a comic genius. The large and looming issues ahead for Schwartz do not appear to be related … Continue reading The Schwartz is with RSA