Posted by Adrienne Hall , general manager, Trustworthy Computing As I meet with customers, some ask: public or private cloud – which has more security risk? Actually, there are different sets of risks depending on the organization and their compliance needs. A private cloud is a pool of computing...

Posted by Adrienne Hall , general manager, Trustworthy Computing with special guest Bobby Jimenez , chief technology officer of Sindicatum Sustainable Resources The cloud continues to transform the way organizations do business. CIOs are identifying business priorities and gaining IT efficiencies...

David Bills , chief reliability strategist, Trustworthy Computing The complex nature of cloud computing means that as cloud service providers, we need to be mindful that things will go wrong – it’s not a case of if, it’s strictly a matter of when. Cloud providers need to design and...

Posted by David Bills , chief reliability strategist, Trustworthy Computing Over the past couple weeks I have posted blogs talking about service reliability organizational goals , as well as causes of service outages and the associated mitigation strategies . Today I’d like to share some insight...

Posted by Adrienne Hall , general manager, Trustworthy Computing I just got off the stage at RSA Europe in London where I delivered a keynote during which I announced the release of our bi-annual Security Intelligence Report (SIRv13) and a new free Cloud Security Readiness Tool . If you’ve ever...

Posted by Adrienne Hall , general manager, Trustworthy Computing Earlier this year at RSA USA, Scott Charney published the Trustworthy Computing Next whitepaper and started a conversation about current and emerging computing trends with regard to the cloud and Big Data, the role of Government and...

Posted by: Tim Rains , director, Trustworthy Computing After recording over 25 videos on various topics related to cloud security, privacy and reliability, the Trustworthy Computing Cloud Fundamentals Video Series has concluded. During the series I had the chance to talk to numerous Microsoft cloud...

Posted by: Adrienne Hall , General Manager, Trustworthy Computing Last May I traveled to Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong to meet with customers and reporters. I was interested to hear their perspectives regarding cloud services while sharing a recently completed a study on small to midsize businesses’...

Posted by: Brendon Lynch , Chief Privacy Officer, Trustworthy Computing Not long ago, the IT industry wondered if privacy concerns would prevent small and midsize businesses (SMBs) from moving to the cloud. Today, I’m pleased to share findings of a new Microsoft-sponsored study that indicates...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing Lori Woehler, senior director in the Microsoft World Wide Public Sector team, joins me to discuss how Microsoft World Wide Public Sector works with government, health care, education, public safety, and national security customers globally...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing In this blog video series, I have talked to quite a few people on the topics of security, privacy, and reliability as they relate to cloud computing. For this post, I had an opportunity to talk with Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President for...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing I have written more than a few articles on this blog focused on why it is important to provide visibility into how cloud services are being operated by cloud providers, particularly where security controls are concerned. Security of cloud services...

Posted by: Mark Estberg , Senior Director, Online Services Security and Compliance Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services (GFS) organization delivers the global infrastructure and network for over 200 consumer and enterprise cloud services. The security, privacy and reliability expectations...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing Earlier this month, I wrote about reliability and the importance of customers knowing what measures their cloud provider has in place to deal with incidents and events that may compromise reliability when they occur. Because many customers...

Posted By: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing Security standards for cloud computing are of high interest to many organizations around the world eager to adopt cloud services that are implemented and operated using a standards based approach. Cloud providers that choose to leverage existing...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing If you’ve been following this series then you know I’ve previously written about the importance of security, compliance and privacy in the cloud. Whenever I talk to customers these themes continually come through as important topics...

Posted by: Richard Saunders , Director, Trustworthy Computing I was at the Cloud Asia event in Singapore recently. One of the sessions was led by an exec from Changi Airport in which he likened internet security to airport security. Jetlag and the passing of time make me hazy on the finer points...

Posted by: Richard Saunders , Director, Trustworthy Computing New data from Microsoft Trustworthy Computing shows that small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) in Hong Kong experience similar cloud security benefits as the SMBs we’ve highlighted from the United States , Singapore , India and...

Posted by: Richard Saunders , Director, Trustworthy Computing At this point you have likely seen some of our survey data on the improved security, cost savings and time savings associated with cloud security for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). We’ve shared specific data on SMBs in...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing It goes without saying that the physical security of the data centers where cloud services are hosted is a very important aspect of security to all of the customers I talk to. After all, if an attacker can gain physical access to the hardware...

Posted by: Richard Saunders , Director, Trustworthy Computing Last week we shared data that highlights the security benefits small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) in the United States , Singapore and India gain from using the cloud. The benefits these organizations attest to—cost savings,...

Posted by: Richard Saunders , Director, Trustworthy Computing Earlier this week we shared news around the security benefits small to mid-size businesses (SMBs) gain from using the cloud in both the United States and Singapore . Additional data focusing on SMBs in India shows that improved security...

Posted by: Richard Saunders , Director, Trustworthy Computing Earlier today Microsoft Trustworthy Computing announced the results of a study showing the security benefits U.S. small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) gain from cloud computing. In this study we found that U.S. SMBs using the cloud...

Posted by: Adrienne Hall , General Manager, Trustworthy Computing Any conversation I have with a customer that hasn't yet adopted a cloud service includes the topic of security at some point. It isn’t surprising that security frequently tops the list of cloud adoption items; yet I believe it...

Posted by: Adrienne Hall , General Manager, Trustworthy Computing Today I’m heading off to Asia. Over the next few weeks I’m looking forward to connecting with customers, industry influentials following cloud computing, reporters and several of my colleagues at Microsoft. These conversations...