How secure is your data on Bushel? Your data on anything is only ever as secure as your password. At Bushel, we take a lot of precautions to protect your data, including from ourselves. We time out your session, we encrypt your session on a per-transaction basis, and we encrypt your data while at rest on our servers (although consider it like the secure enclave in iOS, where we encrypt the data that needs to be encrypted – such as FileVault keys and activation lock bypass information). These basic precautions keep your communication with Bushel secure and prevent people from doing things like hijacking your session. Read My Article On…
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Google Outage
When a large company loses email and other services the help desk is abuzz with calls. But who do you call when an outsourced vendor goes down? I’ve read a number of reports about the Google outage from a few days ago. Having millions of users without service, or with deprecated service, is a lot of potential calls. Just like tens of thousands in an enterprise is lot when those users cannot access email. In the reports I’ve read people were taking a very strong stance on the outage, not necessarily with Google directly, but identifying cloud support options across the board as having “no one to call.” Really? There’s…
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Symantec Continues to Beef Up SaaS Solution Offerings
Symantec has purchased MessageLabs for about $700 Million. This move brings filtered services for spam and web traffic to the Symantec Protection Network, a pseudo-Software as a Service arm of Symantec. You will now be able to filter for spam through Symantec products before it enters your environment and then again once messages are in the environment if you want to go that route, for maximum customizable protection. You can also backup online through the Protection Network and establish remote access services. I guess that theoretically you could just let Symantec do all the work, provided you trust they’ll do a good job with it…
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SaaS Defined
From Wikipedia: Software as a service (SaaS, typically pronounced ‘Sass’) is a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across the Internet. By eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer’s own computer, SaaS alleviates the customer’s burden of software maintenance, ongoing operation, and support. Conversely, customers relinquish control over software versions or changing requirements; moreover, costs to use the service become a continuous expense, rather than a single expense at time of purchase. Using SaaS also can conceivably reduce the up-front expense of software purchases, through less costly, on-demand pricing. From the software vendor’s standpoint, SaaS has the attraction of providing stronger protection of its intellectual…