Raven Cloud Computing Blog

On March 19, I wrote about employers asking for your Facebook and other social media login information. On May 9, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Representative Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and several others filed the Password Protection Act of 2012 (PPA) in the Senate and House. The bill is meant to prevent employers from demanding employees and [...]

I guess Facebook does not have as many friends as it thought. With dismal stock prices from the start, Facebook’s initial stock offering started at $38.00 per share and closed its inaugural day of trading at a disappointing $38.23. Only up 23 cents for the day. Investors and technology industry watchers are closely tracking the [...]

Over the past several months you probably have been hearing it more and more. I am referring to the term BYOD. Have you been wondering what this new technology this is? Well first let me clarify what BYOD is. It is not a new technology. In its simplest form BYOD is a term. It stands for [...]

Sure looks like a hostile take-over to me. I am referring to all the shenanigans at Yahoo. Fred Amoroso, Yahoo’s new board chairman released a statement saying they are confident that these changes will server the best interest of their shareholders. With Scott Thompson’s resignation and that of Patti Hart, who lead the hunt for [...]

As our technology evolves, some things are beginning to take on a life of their own. We already know the Internet population has doubled in the last 5 years to 2.27 billion. Just 5 years ago it stood solid at 1.15  billion. Already 11% of adults own a tablet of some sort, and 77% of [...]

Last week I spent several hours on the phone with a product vendor discussing a problem with a client’s network and some possible causes and cures. It became abundantly clear during our marathon conversations that the vendor was not well versed at troubleshooting issues on a production environment (a network in use by users). The [...]

The CEO of the security software vendor Kaspersky says that the number of attacks on Macs is growing, and Apple will have to learn to respond more quickly. Apple is at least a decade behind Microsoft when it comes to dealing with malware attacks and security, and the recent Flashback attack on Macs only highlights [...]

Over the last 20 years I done hundreds of security audits and worked on many resolutions. It amazes me that many businesses think they are completely secure, yet have not taken the appropriate steps to actually ensure their company’s security success. There are the obvious task a company should perform, like security patches, updates and such. [...]

So it Google at it again? Just two days into their launch of Google Drive, an online cloud storage solutions (that competes with our own product).  Google is already facing suspicion as it tries to persuade people to entrust their personal documents, photos and other digital content to the company’s new online storage service. If [...]