Personal information from nearly one out of three Massachusetts
residents, from names and addresses to medical histories, has been
compromised through data theft or loss since the beginning of 2010,
according to statistics released yesterday by the office of Attorney
General Martha Coakley.

The OASIS IDtrust Member Section and the OASIS eGov Member Section are pleased to support the International Cloud Symposium, http://events.oasis-open.org/home/cloud/2011

Responses to the need for policy and standards in the Cloud have been driven to a great degree on a national basis. ICS willwork to broaden the dialogue with presentations from key players in Europe, North America, and Asia. The event will offer a truly global perspective of the standardization issues for Cloud security.

Speakers include:

Congratulations to Kaliya Hamlin, John Sabo of CA Technologies, and Anil Saldhana of Redhat, who have been elected to serve on the OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering Committee. Their terms extend until September 2013.

We offer our appreciation to all OASIS IDtrust members who participated in the election process--by nominating candidates, volunteering to serve on the Steering Committee, reviewing the candidate pool, and casting votes.

The newly formed Open Data Center Alliance is using an array of usage models to weld cloud-using customers into a force that prevents vendor lock. At the same time, the group is promoting secure movement of virtual workloads from one provider to another. The organization is made up of more than 200 members including JPMorgan Chase, Lockheed Martin and
Marriott.

Few security practices are as problematic as that nasty old string of
bits known as a password. Experts tell us to make them as long and
complex as possible, never reuse them even as our online accounts
multiply, and store them only in our grey matter. That advice can be
summarized, as security researcher Mikko Hypponen recently
twittered: ”Pick something you can’t remember, then don’t write it
down.”