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How to make PHP apps scale

The most popular language for Web apps, PHP tends to buckle under heavy loads -- unless you opt for cloud scaling and a NoSQL back end

10 questions for Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman

Name: Amichai Shulman

Red Alert for Child Pornography

A .mov file with a highly suggestive name is enough to kick off an investigation into what's on an employee's PC.

Disaster recovery is a success just waiting to happen

Security--the topic, and thus the department--sometimes gets pigeonholed as a downer. Maybe from time to time you notice a coworker avoiding getting in the elevator with you. A CSO once told me it's even worse when you get in the elevator and some wiseacre turns to put his hands on the wall--as if expecting you to frisk him.

Cloud, BYOD Increases Need for Automated IAM Systems

As traditional security concepts of perimeter and end-point defense break down as a result of the proliferation of cloud services and the BYOD phenomenon, enterprises are increasingly feeling the need for greater control over access to applications. That's where automated identity and access management comes in.

5 Outsourcing Trends to Watch

The deals are getting smaller, with new pricing models, while security and cloud computing become hot topics.

Is Your Cloud Provider Exposing Remnants of Your Data?

Security researchers report that incorrectly configured hypervisors can lead to a separation of data issue in multi-tenant environments that can expose data remnants. However, you can prevent hosting your data on 'dirty disks.'

Security Manager's Journal: SOX is out of control

Complying with the act is consuming more and more time and detracting from real security work.

Red Sky Alliance: An experiment in information sharing

Chris Camacho, information security officer at The World Bank Group in Washington D.C., explains how the Red Sky alliance helps member organizations safely share information.

Security Concerns Over a Data Center in the Cloud

When the company data center moves to various cloud configurations, the provisioning of servers will need to be addressed.

Court Has Compromised Software Rights

This ruling is disastrous for any company that has developed software for internal use.

Kenneth Van Wyk: We need more secure mobile devices

As things stand now, all bets are off if you lose your smartphone.

Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud

Amazon Web Services offer new challenges and flexibility for database admins -- here's how to avoid the pitfalls and tune for performance

Embedded data, not breasts, brought down hacker

FBI tracks down Higinio Ochoa using geo-tagged photos

How Secure Are Your Facebook Apps?

How well do Facebook apps protect your privacy? Before you download something new and agree to share information, check out how Privacyscore rates its first.

Automatically encrypt files for your Google Drive

Today Google launched Google Drive, a free-if-you-just-need-5GB-of-storage Dropbox-like service that lets you easily store and share files in the cloud.

Fast-forwarding firewall faceoff

Next-generation firewalls claim to identify application-layer attacks and enforce application-specific policies while delivering top-notch performance, even with advanced security features turned on. Insider (registration required)

Who's Got Your Mail?

When a chance discovery reveals that anyone in the company can access one executive's email, the brainstorming begins.

Why Google should be allowed to 'harvest' your Wi-Fi data

The FCC cleared Google of wrongdoing in the so-called 'WiSpy' case. It was the right call, says columnist Mike Elgan, because Google did nothing wrong.

Should I Scan an External Drive for Malware?

1gynRat258 asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum if one should scan a flash drive or an external hard drive for malware--such as a virus or Trojan.

Anonymizer Universal Shields You From Content-Targeting

When you browse the Web, you are constantly being tracked. It's not personal: It's marketing. Website owners and ad networks want to learn as much as they can about you, so they can target their content and ads effectively. After all, there's not much use in showing ads for anti-aging products to a sixteen-year-old. That said, not all users appreciate being tracked so meticulously, and this is where Anonymizer Universal and other VPN applications come in.

SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott explains its five-market focus

If you think SAP equals ERP, Bill McDermott would like a few minutes to set you straight about the 2012 version of the software giant, which he claims is in the midst of "an intellectual renewal." McDermott has been co-CEO -- along with Jim Hagemann Snabe -- of SAP since 2010 and has helped broaden the company's strategy beyond traditional applications and analytics to the cloud, mobile, Big Data and a bet-the-business focus on real-time computing with the HANA in-memory database at the forefront. Insider (registration required)

Grading the Tech Policy Makers: A First Quarter Recap

It's been a busy 2012 on the Hill. As legislators and policymakers grapple with an array of issues central to the policy agendas of companies in the technology industry, CIO.com takes stock of how Washington has moved on intellectual property, cybersecurity, privacy and spectrum in the first quarter of 2012.

How to Implement Next-Generation Storage Infrastructure for Big Data

Managing the petabyte-scale and larger data stores that are a fact of life with Big Data is a different beast than managing traditional large-scale data infrastructures. Online photo site Shutterfly--which manages more than 30 petabytes of data--shares its strategy for taming the storage beast.

FCC's Ruling that Google's WiFi Snooping is Legal Sets Horrible Precedent

Anyone looking for assurance that the privacy of their home wireless networks would be protected from snoopers by government regulators won't find it in the Federal Communication Commission's recent action against Google.