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Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Dan Kobialka.

CipherCloud has launched a solution designed to deliver cross-cloud visibility and data protection. The San Jose, California-based cloud security provider has released Cloud Security Broker, which "extends the CipherCloud platform with frictionless application programming interface (API) integration to entire categories of clouds such as cloud storage applications, CRM systems, HR applications and more."

Cloud Security Broker delivers 360-degree user behavior analytics, threat detection compliance controls and encryption, according to CipherCloud. In addition, CipherCloud noted Cloud Security Broker works across a range of applications across Microsoft Office 365, OneDrive, Box and other cloud applications through cloud APIs…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-security/ciphercloud-announces-cloud-security-broker

Grazed from Network World. Author: Tom Henderson.

It’s been a miserable couple of years for enterprise security. The list of Fortune 500s, US (and other) Government, university, even outing an ex-NSA director’s emails have been both frightening, and perhaps a little bit amusing. There is a certain pomposity, that vague smell of we-can-do-it flatulence, which tends to make me shudder at RSA. Security is a moving target. But even ICANN let its https certificate expire earlier this year, so the problem is pervasive.

Lifting all boats, to use that hackneyed phrase, is tipping some of them over. I’m surprised my fellow journalists gave ICANN a pass. But Mozilla via Firefox gives a pass to Symantec to let some dead certificates float for a little while longer, like flotsam in the septic—somehow permitted. Microsoft infuriates its users by jamming Windows 10 down their throats, although its enterprise clientele is given a forcefeed-pass…

Gone are the days where IT could operate as a siloed business unit. Today, IT is challenged to not only facilitate, but drive business objectives, and deliver faster, more agile service. This is due to factors both in and outside of IT jurisdiction, all of which will be explored in this article. 

Factors Transforming IT 

Widespread adoption of cloud-based infrastructure is changing the way IT operates – it is no longer weighed down by inflexible on-premises hardware. Accordingly, IT departments are expected to deliver service faster, quickly adapt to changing objectives, and work towards automation. Changing expectations of IT are largely due to an overall shift in the pace at which the business sector operates. With an anytime, anywhere approach to productivity, changes can happen quickly. 

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Internap Corporation, a provider of high-performance Internet infrastructure services, today announced the expansion of its OpenStack-based bare-metal Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, AgileSERVER 2.0, to its data centers in Amsterdam, Dallas and Santa Clara, Calif. Launched in 2015 out of Internap’s New York Metro data center in Secaucus, N.J., AgileSERVER 2.0 is now available in four locations globally, enabling enterprises and devops teams running mission-critical applications and big data workloads to build scale-out infrastructure environments that are higher performing and more cost-effective than commodity public cloud platforms.

"OpenStack has become the emerging platform for innovation and digital transformation, and Internap is focused on making this adoption seamless for companies worldwide," said Satish Hemachandran, senior vice president and general manager, cloud and hosting, Internap. "Our next generation of OpenStack-powered AgileCLOUD and AgileSERVER provides IT organizations a way to rapidly deploy a flexible public or private cloud environment using open standards and simplified management tools. This latest expansion of our OpenStack cloud footprint enables our customers to build out high-performance infrastructure environments for their applications on a global scale."

"The path to digital business transformation demands a cloud strategy that addresses the most challenging real-world requirements encountered by enterprise IT departments," said Matt Quinn, executive vice president of products & technology and chief technology officer, TIBCO. "By joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation, we have an opportunity to cooperatively enhance the Cloud Foundry platform, equipping developers with the best tools to swiftly and safely architect the kind of cloud-native applications that grow businesses."

Skyhigh Networks, the leading cloud access security broker (CASB), today announced its Cloud Security Technology Partner Program designed to provide customers with the most advanced cloud security solutions on the market. The Skyhigh CASB delivers unparalleled visibility, compliance, data security, and threat protection capabilities across 17,000+ cloud services. With the Skyhigh Cloud Security Partner Program, enterprises can seamlessly integrate the Skyhigh CASB with their current and planned security investments, thereby ensuring comprehensive and integrated deployments.

According to the Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Access Security Brokers by Craig Lawson, Neil MacDonald, and Brian Lowans, published in October 2015, “CASBs provide a number of critical points of integration with the environment, and these integration points play an important role in preventing enterprise security delivery from becoming yet another silo. CASB integration points cover identity and access management (IAM) integration; reuse of data security policies for the cloud; and event integration with technologies such as security information and event management (SIEM) for a single view of an organization’s security events, plus support for a number of existing security processes such as incident response.”

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Andy Patrizio.

When running down the list of top cloud vendors, the name Verizon doesn’t come up immediately, but the firm is looking to expand its particular brand of cloud services that complement main players like Amazon and Microsoft. It’s also fending off rumors it’s getting out of the cloud business.