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Case-Study on Secure SaaS

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 15, 2010

Security and data protection are key concerns for any cloud solution. I truly believe that this is also one aspect that you cannot just improve over time. No matter how agile you are security needs to be there by design.
Unfortunately most cloud vendors/SaaS-providers still don’t tell enough about the way they protect customer data – [...]

Can cloud make you MORE compliant?

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 6, 2009

The common word out there about cloud computing/SaaS and security/regulatory compliance are that these don’t go well together. However, things don’t have to be that way. Doing security right can cost a lot of money and public cloud services could carry some of these costs. Thus, there probably will be a point in time when [...]

Can I insure my Google Apps, please?

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 11, 2009

Are online services ever going to be 100% secure? If not should the insurance industry kick in?
A few days ago Google Apps had an issue with some Google Docs became accessible to other Google users beyond the security set on the docs. To quote from Google:
As we noted in the Google Docs Help Forum yesterday, [...]

Gartner on Cloud and information control

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 18, 2009

Jay Heiser and David Gootzit from Gartner have just published an excellent report on “Trusted SaaS Offerings for Secure Collaboration“.
The report is really valuable for anyone either building clouds or cloud-related products, or considering to move sensitive data to a SaaS application.
The key areas they look into are:

List of typical SaaS applications which have high [...]




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