How Brightmetrics Handles Security in our SaaS Product

These days small to mid-sized businesses are turning more and more often to Software as a Service (Saas) or cloud solutions like Brightmetric’s Executive Support System (ESS). When compared to in-house solutions, cloud solutions tend to be more cost-effective, quicker and easier to setup and easier to upgrade.

Using a cloud solution also allows small to mid-sized companies to offset very costly and time-consuming security needs. Due to rapidly evolving best practices and compliance measures, many small to mid-sized businesses find it difficult to handle IT security in-house. In fact, in a recent report, Forrester Research, found that 67 percent of all IT executives interviewed felt they were unable to handle IT security internally due to limited staff or budget. Read the rest of this entry »

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Facebook and the Mysterious Moving Privacy Policy

Privacy is an illusion. If you think anything that you put out into the universe (in this case, the Internet) is going to stay a secret, you may be in for a surprise. Things get out. It’s a fact of life. I’ve been doing this long enough that I generally know better than to put anything out on there that I don’t want subject to public consumption.

So the fact that Facebook is not necessarily keeping users information private  these days is not exactly what is bothering me about the whole thing. Read the rest of this entry »

1 Comment » | Posted by Jim Lewis |