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Data Classification and the Cloud

UPDATE – In response to the reluctance of financial institutions to adopt cloud storage, vendors such as Microsoft and HP have announced that they are building “hybrid” clouds. These new models are designed to allow institutions to simultaneously store and process certain data in the cloud, while a portion of the processing or storage is done […]

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Risk Assessing iCloud (and other online backups) – UPDATE 2, DropBox

Update 2 (8/2012) – Cloud-based storage vendor DropBox confirmed recently that a stolen employee password led to the theft of a “project document” that contained user e-mail addresses. Those addresses were then used to SPAM DropBox users. The password itself was not stolen directly from the DropBox site, but from another site the employee used. […]

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FFIEC issues Cloud Computing Guidance

Actually the document is classified as “for informational purposes only”, which is to say that it is not a change or update to any specific Handbook and presumably does not carry the weight of regulatory guidance. However, it is worth a read by all financial institutions outsourcing services because it provides reinforcement for, and references […]

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