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10 interview questions for hiring cloud-literate security staff The answers will paint a picture of whether this candidate understands cloud security.    Credit: Flickr/J. Ott/Remixed   Market researchers have been saying for a while now that organizations are having trouble finding, hiring, and retaining experienced IT security professionals with the necessary cybersecurity skills. The rise of cloud computing creates an additional hurdle to building a modern security team. Cloud computing brings a unique set of information security challenges along with a shift in security strategy. Gartner predicts that 95 percent of cloud security incidents will be the customer’s fault, so it is critical for security professionals to understand the risks and vulnerabilities associated with cloud use. Therefore, hiring the right employee is all the more imperative. Skyhigh Networks shared 10 interview questions that it believes accurately gau...

Five pitfalls to avoid when migrating to the cloud Not analyzing your apps, your business and your costs can be major mistakes   Credit: OpenClipart-Vectors via Pixabay Mistakes can be costly. They also can be so painful they keep you from venturing any further ahead. Of course, that's true with almost anything tech-related, but IT managers will tell you that there are some common, and potentially damaging, pitfalls that anyone looking at a cloud migration should work to avoid.   Migration mistakes can cost the enterprise money and time, and eliminate or reduce any expected increases in agility as well as speed and cost savings. Those stumbles and losses could cause business execs to back off from a bigger cloud migration. It also could cause execs to lose faith in their IT leaders. "This is part of the learning curve," said Deepak Mohan, an analyst with IDC. "The negatives are attributed to the cloud and not to these mistakes that...

On-premises HR users risk being left behind, Oracle says Customers will either have to move to the cloud or miss out on many new features   Credit: Thinkstock Oracle is telling customers that the future of its HR platform will be in the cloud. It's trying to do this without alarming users who host its applications internally. Users of on-premises PeopleSoft and E-Business Suite HR system users won't be abandoned as cloud use grows, Oracle promises. These systems will get regular updates and new features. There's no end-of-life risk, said Mark Hurd , Oracle's CEO. "No worries about that," he said. Even with that, however, Oracle's cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) system will see many more new features and will pull ahead in capability over on-premises systems, said Hurd. "The trajectory of new features coming into the cloud product is going not linear, but it's going like this," said Hurd, gesturing s...

Android grabs most-popular OS prize from Windows Measurements of online activity put Android ahead of Windows for the first time; Apple's OSes place distant third Credit: Magdalena Petrova Android last month slipped ahead of Windows to become the world's most popular operating system, an Irish analytics company said Monday. "This is a milestone in technology history," said Aodhan Cullen, the CEO of Dublin-based StatCounter, in a statement. "It marks the end of Microsoft's leadership worldwide of the OS market which it has held since the 1980s." StatCounter measures usage share -- a proxy for online activity -- by tallying the operating systems of the devices used to browse to its clients' websites. According to StatCounter, Android's usage share of all computing devices, including smartphones, tablets and personal computers, was 37.93% in March, just a hair ahead of Windows' 37.91%. It was the first time sin...

IT pros agree: Security is better in the cloud A survey of 300 IT pros shows that cloud security is preferred over on-prem security for protecting your data and systems   Credit: Thinkstock About 42 percent of IT decision-makers and security managers say they are running security applications in the cloud, according to a survey of about 300 IT security pros from Schneider Electric . Almost half of those surveyed said they are likely or extremely likely to move their security operations to the cloud in a few years. In the survey, 57 percent of respondents believe the cloud is secure. The cloud has the most confidence in on-demand security, and that confidence is highest among IT professionals (78 percent). I’ve stated before that cloud security is better than on-premises security, but it’s nice to see external evidence backing that up.   The fact of the matter is that security is a complex and expensive set of technologies. Moreover, s...

Microsoft to sell Galaxy S8 phones pre-loaded with its own apps Low-key deal to sell Samsung's new flagship driven by desire to remain a player in enterprise mobile, says analyst   Credit: Samsung    Microsoft will sell Samsung's newest Android-powered phones, the Galaxy S8 and S8+, in its brick-and-mortar stores next month. The phones can be pre-ordered now at Microsoft's retail outlets -- but not online -- and will also be available for purchase in the stores beginning April 21, Samsung's release date for the new, larger models . Microsoft's prices will be the same as Samsung's: $750 for the Galaxy S8, $850 for the S8+. But the Galaxy S8 and S8+ phones sold by Microsoft will not be identical to those offered elsewhere. "A Microsoft customization is applied when the devices are unboxed and connected to Wi-Fi," a Microsoft spokeswoman said in an emailed statement. "This customization ensures customers a best-in-class productivit...