She cites a study done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last February showing that only two out of 60 test subjects noticed a lack of security certification on a banking site.

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But the sticking point, says Phillip Merrick, boss of webMethods, one of the pioneers in the field, has been the many other fiddly but necessary protocols for security, transaction certification, and so on.

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These cloud and web hosting customers appreciate the cost savings associated with a lower cost infrastructure, yet still want to deploy a server-class product with reliability and security features and server OS certification.

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But the Pentagon certification would allow more security-sensitive government agencies at the Pentagon to start using them, and would allow more widespread use of the devices across government agencies.

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The CCIE is the highest of Cisco's three training levels, and Cisco offers six areas of certification, including routing and switching, security and storage networking.

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These are part of the conclusions of a new survey of 252 cloud users, providers, consultants and integrators jointly conducted by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA, an IT certification group.

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Google, in announcing Monday what it calls "Google Apps for Government, " said it has gained certification and accreditation under the terms of Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) from the U.S. government.

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"Achieving FIPS 140-2 certification means that BlackBerry 10 is ready to meet the strict security requirements of government agencies and enterprises at launch, " said Michael K. Brown, Vice President, Security Product Management and Research at RIM.

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