David Buckwald is Director of Systems Engineering at SonicWALL. Prior to SonicWALL, David spent seven years at Aventail as the director of systems engineering for the United States. David has over 20 years of experience in networking, security, and systems management technologies. Prior to Aventail, David was a principal systems engineer at Tivoli Systems and a Certified Networking Specialist at IBM. David holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from SUNY Potsdam and a Master's degree in Information Management from Polytechnic University. He can be reached at dbuckwald@sonicwall.com.
Cloud computing is on the rise. Over 90 percent of recently surveyed companies expect to be using cloud computing in the next three years. Still, securing access to the cloud poses significant challenges for IT departments. Mission-critical, cloud-based business applications such as Salesforce.com, SharePoint and SAP are often prime targets for continuous, persistent criminal attack […]