The past year was a learning curve on Cloud Computing, especially on SaaS providers. More and more ASPs are coming back rebranded as SaaS provider. As a security practitioner, it would be good to have a must have check list that we need to use to assess them. I prepared the following must have check… Continue reading Security Must Haves in a SaaS Provider
Tag: Outsourcing
The Open Group Security Practitioners Conference Day 2
Proceedings from the The Open Group Security Practitioners Conference at Toronto – July 23, 2009.
What were they thinking?
At the start of the New Year, CIO magazine has data protection and governance at the top of the list for this year. I thought this was supposed to be taken care from day one! In this age when words are being patented, we are still trying to figure out to protect data.
Protect Information in Laptops
Very frequently, we hear news of stolen laptops that contains sensitive information which could potentially be anything from Personal Identifiable Information (PII) to corporate intellectual information. The latest being the news in Canada that a consultant for the Provincial Public Health Laboratory lost a laptop that includes names, Medical Care Plan numbers, age, sex, physician and test results for infectious diseases, including HIV and hepatitis.