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Cloud Security Layers
Situational awareness is one of the most difficult things to get right in doing cloud security, and hand in hand with that goes inventory awareness.…
Security Metrics for Clouds
A previous article here on general Security Metrics outlined some key security controls for measurement: NOTE: each of these security controls may have several or…
Cloud Security as an Interconnection
Connecting your information system to a cloud is an interconnection. NIST guidance on handling the security of interconnections is documented in 800-47 Rev. 1 “Managing…
Clouds Will Become APT Targets
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications…
Hidden Expenses in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing may not deliver the cost savings that everybody seems to expect. The general computing community seems to take it for granted that the…
A High Impact Baseline for Clouds
FEDRAMP (FEDeral Risk and Authorization Management Program) offers baselines of 800-53 security controls that have been tailored for cloud environments. But they do not offer…
Self Improvement is Recursive
A recursive process does something, stores the result, and then reapplies the same process using the new result. We see this often in mathematical equations…
Self-conscious Intelligence
We use a variety of terms to qualify what we consider to be intelligent life: intelligence, consciousness, self-awareness, higher consciousness. There seem to be two…
Potential AI Catastrophe
“Weak AI” and/or “Narrow AI” is defined in the article linked below as Artificial Intelligence (AI) that may be able to match or even exceed…
Self Awareness
“I think, therefore I am” (cogito ergo sum) – Rene Descartes Consciousness or awareness of self existence, seems to be a combination of a sense of…