At last year's RSA Conference, IBM introduced new services, hardware and software with this animated video. Here's how to improve the security of cloud computing environments, help ensure the confidentiality of data and to lock down applications from attack.

David Endler, senior director of DVLabs at TippingPoint, believes that security threats are evolving but that the evolution is not a surprise because while threats may vary, mostly because of mutation, the techniques by which threats are created are similar. Endler offers practical advise on how to stay ahead of the threat environment.

As the oldest and largest independent law firm in Hong Kong, Decons attributes it success to serving the needs of its customers local and international. Cora Li, infrastructure manager at Deacons, discusses the challenges that Deacons faced transitioning to a digital world. Li attributes its success to strict adherence to policies and processes that secure all information remains securely accessible. Deacons has undertaken to automate as much of its data management needs to increase employee productivity.

As organizations begin to migrate to the cloud en masse, there is still considerable confusion about how best to handle information security in the cloud. According to the RSA Security Brief entitled “Identity & Data Protection in the Cloud: Best Practices for Establishing Environments of Trust”, what’s needed to make cloud computing a truly ubiquitous services platform is a higher degree of trust, particularly between the owner-providers of cloud resources and the companies that use those resources.

Hackers are evolving to meet the changing landscape. Corey Nachreiner, security network security strategist at WatchGuard Technologies, discusses the structure of cyber criminal organizations and how they are set up to protect against being discovered by authorities.