Security

Aer Lingus: a service I needed

October 5, 2010 General
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This is slightly off topic but could be of use to those who advise people who need to travel. Regular readers will know that along with colleagues, I have many tales of traveling woe. This is not one of them. I’m currently sitting at a coffee shop outside Olympia at 8.30am. Having staggered off Aer Lateness [...]

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SaaS security: McAfee's response

September 23, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS
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One question that gets raised time and again: Is SaaS secure? The answer depends on with whom you speak. My take is that any vendor that cannot answer a set of well defined questions is probably not going to meet the minimum requirements for me to recommend a service. Earlier today I attended a Salesforce.com [...]

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Overcoming SaaS security and other barriers

August 4, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Having moaned about the poor job vendors are doing in helping customers explain how they manage the potential pitfalls and barriers associated with SaaS it was refreshing to see sponsor Workbooks grab the nettle based on their own unfortunate experience. Don’t worry, this is a non-critical issue that doesn’t affect customers but which relates to [...]

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So you want to know about data privacy?

June 28, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The above illustration is a snapshot from a Forrester Research interactive map. It is well worth the looking as a starting point for anyone wishing to understand what privacy really means. When you zoom in on Europe for example, you can get a country specific snapshot of what privacy rules are in place. Here is [...]

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The SaaS accounting questions you need to ask

October 1, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

In my Fired! It had to happen post, Alastair commented: So what’s a decent SAAS offering, and how do you evaluate the stuff you can’t see, like security, availability, speed, respect for your data? There are lots of differences, which your client won’t have the first clue about. And that’s not to say non-SAAS offerings [...]

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Getting the security ducks in a row

August 10, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Security is one of those topics that strikes fear into the hearts of CA/CPA types. And so it seems over at Rick Telberg’s place: Even if your firm or finance organization is in full compliance with privacy and security rules today, Patrick warns, “you’d have to have your head in the sand not to know [...]

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