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Stay Ahead of Hackers with Smart Cloud Implementation When moving your business’s IT to the cloud, it’s smart to perform due diligence—for the cloud service provider, but also for your own company's needs, practices, and restrictions. Can all your data go on the cloud? Should more sensitive data remain under your own IT department's control? Read on. |
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Industrializing Testing Services for SaaS Products Software as a service is a key component today of every enterprise application outsourcing strategy. Smart testing with the right blend of depth and speed is the cornerstone of successfully testing SaaS applications. Reap the benefits of SaaS products by creating an effective, reusable strategy. |
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Mobile App Security Is a Problem, Even for Fortune 500 Companies A recent IBM/Ponemon study shows that mobile application development for a high percentage of large companies—which includes some Fortune 500 members—has significant weaknesses, leaving enterprise data susceptible to theft. These apps just aren’t being properly security tested before release. |
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Evaluating Your Risks before Moving Data to Cloud Storage When companies move services to the cloud, security concerns don't disappear by transferring management to the cloud service provider. It's smart to familiarize yourself with what security controls the service provider has in place first, and to have ways of auditing those protocols as you proceed. |
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Let’s Stop the Password Madness People and organizations definitely should take security seriously. That said, some of the “experts” advising about password security are going too far. Frequent password changes give the appearance of more robust security without actually affecting anything. Payson Hall unpacks this requirement. |
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Apple Pay's Security Concerns Holding It Back Apple Pay might be simple and easy to use, but the number of people in the US who distrust mobile payment systems due to the degree of personal information that needs to be shared increased by 9 percent year-over-year, bringing it to 35 percent. Security issues are holding the app back. |
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Mobile Users Eager to Share Data, but Require Security and Ownership The Microsoft Digital Trends 2015 report shows that people’s attitudes toward digital and connected devices have changed significantly since just two years ago. Previously, users wanted to be more anonymous. Now, the idea of putting yourself out there isn’t nearly as frightening. |
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The Cloudy Identity Theft Crisis Every day seems to bring yet another massive identity theft news story. Who is actually responsible for maintaining the security of a person’s data in the cloud? Most consumers assume it is their responsibility to protect their account information and precious sensitive online information. |
