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Securing Your Data, Availability and Reputation in the Cloud Seminar – March 21, 2014

The recent breakfast seminar, Securing
Your Data, Availability and Reputation in the
Cloud, held on March 21, 2014,
brought together more than 75 security and IT professionals and entrepreneurs
for an engaging, interactive discussion on key security considerations in a
cloud environment.
Thanks very much to panelists Cricket
Lui
(Chief Infrastructure Officer, Infoblox), Chris Wysopal
(Co-Founder and CTO, Veracode), Nick Levay (CSO, Bit9), and Chris Ray
(Chief Information Security Officers, Epsilon), who offered seasoned guidance
and critical tips to minimize security risks in a cloud environment, such as
how to evaluate and trust your AWS and the strength of next-generation
firewalls, especially in the wake of increasing DDoS attacks.
For additional information on DDoS
attacks and the destruction they can bring, panelist and security expert
Cricket Lui’s InfoWorld DeepDive
recent special report, “The Ultimate Guide to
Preventing DNS-based DDoS Attacks
,” provides a comprehensive look
specifically at DDoS attacks. Take a look for additional information on how
DDoS attacks exploit and target DNS infrastructure, how companies can protect
themselves from such attacks, and what to do should your company become a
target.
A full recap of the Securing Your
Data, Availability and Reputation in the Cloud
seminar is available on CIO TechTarget:  “A Cloud First Strategy Call
for Strong Security: Five Tips to Get There,”
in an article by
senior news writer Nicole Laskowski.
Thanks so much to the Constant Contact team for hosting us
in their Waltham, MA headquarters, and to the MassTLC Cloud Cluster Sponsors:  Comcast
Business
, Oracle, Internap, Digital Realty and Logi Analytics. We appreciate your
ongoing support!

The next Cloud Cluster event will be a May 2014 webinar to share the
results from the recent Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Survey (more details
coming soon!) Check out the Cloud
Cluster main page
for ongoing updates and information.

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