November 15th, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua There are some points that can helps to carefully prepare our systems to avoid Distributed Denial of Service: 1- Prepare a simple and fast way to reboot remotely servers exposed to external network (webservers ,mailservers ,application servers..) this can be using SSH, we can also create a second network interface to access the server while [...]
October 29th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Cisco is about to purchase ScanSafe a web security company for a 183 million dollars. This step will allow Cisco to increase the competition with other big companies in this industry such as Symantec and McAfee. ScanSafe provides products in the web filtering security services to protect corporate workstations and networks from hackers. You will [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security, News, Web Security 
Tags: Cisco, SaaS & Cloud Computing, ScanSafe 
1 Comment » October 6th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Bitbucket a web Service designed to host programming projects has faced an outages last weekend, the failure period was more than 19 hours which is relatively long. According to Amazon the incident was due to a DDoS attack on their computing infrastructure. This Attack can only brings a doubt in the IT services that are [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security, Cybercrime & Hacking Tags: Amazon, cyber attacks, DDOS 11 Comments » September 12th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Many people go wrong by relying completely on the data protection provided by default in the database server , like password setting and good DB version, well now a day this is not enough. One of the most important feature that is considered as a part of the CIA triad is ensuring data integrity, there [...]
April 29th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Cloud computing is getting the top concern and achieved a lot of interest in the RSA2009 conference while the biggest issue in cloud is security many security software companies are working these days to adapt there security solutions to the cloud computing. Panda security team have announced today there free cloud antivirus solution, they have [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security Tags: freeware, Malware, Panda Cloud Antivirus, Rootkit 1 Comment » April 23rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua If anyone has the right to be excited about cloud computing, it’s John Chambers. But on Wednesday Cisco Systems’ Chairman and CEO conceded that the computing industry’s move to sell pay-as-you-go computing cycles available as a service on the Internet was also “a security nightmare.” Speaking during a keynote address at the annual security confab, [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security Tags: Cisco, Cloud computing, IBM, RSA security conference, Security 6 Comments » February 1st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua In the last months there has been a rapid increase in investment in the Cloud Computing and related areas. This growth is due to the demand for virtual “cloud” resources, the Idea of Cloud Computing is near another approach called utility computing, where computing resources are treated as a service and takes into account the [...]
