Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO Of Credant Technologies (Part 7)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: If you look more closely that problem [of proving you are who you say you are], yes, I think that is a problem that is unsolved and open. But it is also a very big problem, and architecturally how do you see that evolving? Because,

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO Of Credant Technologies (Part 6)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: I think in general, the security holes around the world are much larger right now because, for one reason, there is a lot more distributed, federated technology being used, and as a result there are a lot more holes. And you just gave us the

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO Of Credant Technologies (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: How can the [data owner have the obligation]? I mean, unless Salesforce.com is involved in the process of securing the data, a customer of Salesforce.com cannot possibly secure that data without Salesforce.com’s being involved in the process. It is just not architecturally viable.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO Of Credant Technologies (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and Siddarth Garg Sramana Mitra: I get your point from an adaption point of view, but today we are at a somewhat more mature stage of adoption in the cloud world, right? We are a good five to six years into serious cloud deployments, so we have a lot of very large

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO Of Credant Technologies (Part 3)

By Sramana Mitra and Siddarth Garg Sramana Mitra: So, you already have a solution, and you are just applying it to a cloud environment because you encountered a problem that your customers were asking for solutions for. Chris Burchett: That is right, and there are additional functionalities that we are building into the product in

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO Of Credant Technologies (Part 2)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg Sramana Mitra: OK, let’s look closer at encryption in the cloud. Would you help me understand what kind of data are you talking about, with some use cases as examples? Chris Burchett: Yes. One example might be that I want to run some of the servers, and

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Chris Burchett, CIO Of Credant Technologies (Part 1)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Siddharth Garg About Credant Technologies Credant Technologies’ Mobile Guardian solutions are designed to protect endpoint data wherever it resides, helping to ensure endpoint data security and demonstrate compliance while avoiding the costs and complexities of full disk solutions. Named in 2007 and 2008 as the fastest-growing privately held security

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