1. Amazon Secures Its Cloud

    Forbes.com (Aug 27 2009)

    1. Amazon Secures Its Cloud BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Like fog in San Francisco, Amazon continues to bring its lofty "cloud" down to ground level. Amazon announced on Wednesday two new security features for its Amazon Web Services aimed at luring new enterprise business. The big news is a feature called Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, or Amazon VPC, which enables businesses to connect to Amazon's flexible AWS resources using an industry-standard virtual private network connection. Amazon also announced that it's enabling support for multi-factor authentication, a login practice that uses a physical device to add an extra element of security. (Read Full Article)

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