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FIREHOST TO UNVEIL CYBER ATTACK REPORT AT CEE 2013
On the 29th January 2013, at Cloud Expo Europe (London Olympia), secure cloud hosting company Fire- Host will be revealing the results of its final quarterly web application attack report for 2012 and outlin- ing the trends that dominated the security landscape last year. FireHost’s latest Superfecta report, which provides statistical analysis of the tens of millions of cyberattacks blocked by its servers in the US and Europe, provides a frontline snapshot of the biggest security threats online. FireHost is in a unique position to provide both an accurate and compre- hensive overview of all the various threats online and CEO Chris Drake will be sharing FireHost’s real-life data into the web-based attacks faced by its customers in 2012. In addition, FireHost director of strategy and former Tier1 Research analyst, Daniel Beazer, will be delivering his keynote presentation on the merits of the cloud verses dedicated IT environments; with Fire- Host partners, The Distance and Infosys, also speaking on cloud security.
DAY 1:
Keynote – 13.15 - 13.45 Cloud versus Dedicated Daniel Beazer, Director of Strategy
FireHost partner presentation – 14.25 - 14.55
Visible protection from cybercrime gives design and development agency “The Dis- tance” two distinct business advantages
Ryan Atkins, Online Director & Founder, The Distance
DAY 2:
FireHost partner presentation – 12.05 - 12.30
From red herring to reality: An all in one secure laaS solution for enterprise applications
Mike Foote, Global Alliances Manager, Infosys
CCI Magazine January 2013
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UK GOVERNMENT DIGS DIP FOR CLOUD SECTOR
The UK government is pouring £5m into 13 research and devel- opment projects that will address the business and technology chal- lenges hindering the adoption of Cloud computing.
According to a study by the Technology Strategy Board, the government-backed innovation agency, three overarching issues about cloud computing present a challenge to adoption for many organisations – interoperability, resilience of data and identity assurance.
The research projects will explore how new or improved value chains and networks can be created to improve cloud adoption as well as demonstrate where value can be increased by offering information, content and services using the cloud. Iain Gray, chief executive of the Technology Strategy Board, said: “The market for cloud computing services is growing by 26% each year... Through this support we aim to help UK suppliers of cloud infrastructure and outsourced IT services to work together on the challenges that are holding back the adoption of cloud computing, in order to capture a bigger share of this expanding market.” Through this funding, the
agency aims to help UK providers of cloud infrastructure and outsourced IT services to work together and address the challenges that are holding organisations from using cloud-based services.
Addressing these challenges could also help the UK cloud providers capture a bigger share of this expanding market, according to Gray.
The research will be focused on developing systems, services and software that could help resolve challenges such as lack of interoperability (which will allow enterprises to use more than one supplier and build hybrid services, and ease of changing from one supplier to another), resilience of data (particularly in areas such as maintaining confidentiality and privacy, and ensuring data integrity) and identity assurance to improve security of cloud services.
The government investment will be matched by private funding from the organisations involved in the initiative, which include BAE Systems, Telefónica UK and Jaguar Land Rover, bringing the total value of the projects to approximately £10m.
There will also be three ‘fast-track’ projects led by AIMES Grid Services CIC, Metrarc and ThinkingSafe. These three one- year projects will each receive up to £75,000.
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