• How to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data

  A growing number of SaaS providers offer secure encryption log-in to Dropbox and other cloud storage vendors, meaning even they can't access the data you store. And neither can the government.

• The state of cloud encryption: From fiction to actionable reality

  The risks of data privacy, residency, security and regulatory compliance remain significant barriers to cloud adoption for many enterprises. While encryption seems like an obvious solution, historically the technology produced usability issues for cloud applications. To complicate matters, putting encryption into the hands of cloud service providers still left the enterprise open to risks such as insider fraud, hacking and disclosure demands from law enforcement.

• Dirty smartphones: Devices keep traces of files sent to the cloud

  When smartphone users upload files to cloud-based services, remnants of those files often remain on their handheld device, even if the data is meant to be stored only in the cloud, researchers have found.

• Bomgar CEO talks mobility, cloud risks and old cars

  To hear founder and CEO Joel Bomgar tell it, he might never have started his eponymous company if he'd had a cooler car.

• Learn to fail and avoid the next cloud outage

  Outages with large public cloud providers aren't more common than they are with a business' own private infrastructure.

• Legal concerns curb corporate cloud adoption

  Inside the enterprise, the biggest obstacle to cloud computing is often the company's own corporate counsel. Here's how IT is getting to yes with legal.

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  Safety in the cloud

  RSA President Art Coviello's thoughts on cloud security.

Whitepapers about cloud security

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  Choosing the Right Email Security Deployment

  Enterprises of all sizes face the same daunting challenges – increasing mail volumes and new, evolving threats. The Cisco Cloud Security family of services provides customers superior choice of deployment models built on the solid foundation of industry-leading email security technology that protects 40 percent of Fortune 1000 companies from inbound threats and outbound data loss possibilities. Read more.