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: 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 Over the past few weeks, I have provided a recap of the Security Development Conference 2012 in a series of articles. These articles include video interviews with Richard A. Clarke , former Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security,...

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 In my two previous articles recapping the Security Development Conference 2012 I shared some insights from Richard Clarke’s keynote and General Michael V. Hayden’s keynote . The final keynote of the conference was delivered by Scott...

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 Last week I shared some details about the Security Development Conference 2012 for those unable to attend. I also provided a recap of Richard Clarke’s keynote and included a video interview in which Richard shared his perspective on the...

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: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing Earlier this month I attended the Security Development Conference 2012 (SDC 2012). As Steve Lipner, Partner Director of Program Management, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft wrote in his article about the event , the conference enabled people from...

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...

Posted By: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing In the past I’ve said a perfectly operated cloud service that has vulnerabilities in it due to lackluster development processes isn’t going to help protect the data that cloud customers store and process in the cloud. As reported in...

By: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing Consumers of cloud services generally don’t get to see the layers of technology that they rely on. For many, this seamless delivery is part of the value proposition of cloud computing; depending on the type of deployment, customers expect their...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing I have been asked more than a few times whether I think there are too many people involved in developing cloud security standards and best practices. The underlying concern is that when too many people get involved, the process of developing...

Posted by: Adrienne Hall , General Manager, Trustworthy Computing If you follow this blog regularly, you know that security development policies, tools and practices are at the heart of what Trustworthy Computing does. From my first ever post , to Tim Rains’ recent Cloud Fundamentals video with...

By: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing Industry collaboration is critical to helping businesses, governments and citizens realize safer computing experiences. It is also important in the context of cloud security. Earlier in this series I discussed the benefits of industry collaboration...

Posted by: Jim Reavis , Executive Director, Cloud Security Alliance For our industry, the RSA Conference is the Oscars, a political convention and a college reunion, all rolled into one. We spend months preparing for this one week, and out of this one week comes a year’s worth of new initiatives...

Posted by: Adrienne Hall , General Manager, Trustworthy Computing If I had to choose one word to describe this year’s RSA conference it would be “buzzing.” That was the feel on the floor of the conference earlier this month, as security professionals from across the globe came...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing Electronic discovery, or e-discovery, is a hot topic among security professionals whose organizations are using cloud services or are evaluating using cloud services in the future. When there is a need to perform forensic investigations to...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing If you’ve been following our Cloud Fundamentals series, you’ve heard me discuss why transparency is important for both cloud service providers and their customers. Another important aspect of this theme that customers have discussed...

Posted by: Matt Thomlinson, General Manager, Trustworthy Computing Security Today, I am excited to announce the inaugural Security Development Conference will be held in Washington D.C. on May 15-16. This event will bring together business decision makers, security engineers, managers of software...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing Benchmarks and evaluation standards for cloud computing security is a topic that is top of mind for many organizations that are evaluating the potential uses of this new computing paradigm. Many of the customers I have talked to say they would...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing In my last blog post , I discussed some of the challenges associated with achieving acceptable levels of transparency for organizations seeking the benefits of cloud computing. For many organizations, visibility into how their cloud providers’...

Posted by: Tim Rains , Director, Trustworthy Computing When Information Technology departments evaluate potential uses of cloud computing for their organization, many of them quickly realize they no longer have the near omniscient visibility into the operations environment they have when hosting...