Last week, Oracle released a major critical patch update that fixed 85 new security issues, four of which were discovered initially by Imperva, all 85 are protected by Imperva’s technology. Below is a comment from Imperva’s CTO, Amichai Shulman on the patch and what system admins need to be wary about:
A few weeks ago, we were on a conference call with one of the premier analysts in this industry when the subject of private keys came up. We’ve always taken for granted that everyone in the industry understood that as part of certificate management we also manage the private keys associated with those certificates. This analyst made it clear to us that we couldn’t make this assumption. Two reasons: 1) very few realize that managing certificates also requires the management of private keys, and 2) not many understand how critical the security of private keys is in protecting sensitive data.
Control Risks will launch the Nigeria Election Watch on 18 October, 2010. The NEW is a new service for clients providing in-depth coverage and analysis of the key issues investors need to be aware of in the run-up to, during, and in the aftermath of, the elections.
While some of the technical underpinnings that make up the Cloud’s ‘secret sauce’, are relatively recent innovations, the business case for managing critical IT functions as services – inside or outside the firewall - is not a new concept. At the end of the day, the Cloud is just another way to outsource IT functions, and the same fundamental concerns that exist with more mature outsourcing offerings need to be addressed – such as, how does an organization manage its security and compliance posture when critical systems and data are hosted or managed by a third party?
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