Admit it, you have a Facebook account. Whether you are an occasional user
sharing family photos or a full-blown "friending" addict, it is nearly
impossible not to use it. You probably have also seen several warnings from
friends not to use an application that burned them or to ignore a recent
posting that may lure you into installing a malicious widget.
Facebook's success and its large vibrant population has become a large target
for malicious actors. Facebook's applications have become a breeding ground
for malware. Facebook's privacy policies have become the stuff of scrutiny
from governments around the world, sometimes exacerbated by their own
management's policy flip flops.
Given all that, we come to praise Facebook, sort of, not bury them. What most
of the security and privacy experts who interact with Facebook will tell you
is that they care, and are trying to... (more)
Cloud computing has raised the eyebrows of many enterprises today. If you
have begun to delve beneath the surface of this new computing model, you have
certainly discovered that there are many "clouds" to consider, and it is not
one single cloud that will be part of your future. One of the hottest trends
we are seeing right now among enterprises is the shift to private clouds.
What is a private cloud, and how does it fit in your future?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) offers a definition
of clouds that is useful to consider. In their taxonomy, four differ... (more)
What's all this cloud hype about? Depending on whom you talk to, cloud
computing is either an overhyped term destined for obscurity or the greatest
promise for the future of Information Technology. While certainly there is a
great deal of fanfare associated with the cloud, I believe that in the long
run, this hype will prove to be the latter. For those with a mandate to
extend IT environments or protect an organization's information assets,
there's a clear call-to-action to adopt cloud computing, but with caution.
With an influx of highly disruptive cloud technology and business ... (more)
Dipto Chakravarty is the Vice President of Engineering for the Security Management Operating Platforms at Novell, Inc. Prior to Novell, Chakravarty ran product engineering for e-Security. He previously served as CTO and founder at Artesia, a firm he started with management buyout in 1999. Besides startup businesses, Chakravarty has held a variety of management positions at IBM’s AIX kernel group, Thomson’s e-publishing group, and Bell Lab’s device drivers group. 
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