secure, social, cloud - mutually exclusive or perfect partners?
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Is cloud-based social software inherently risky for enterprises looking to take advantage of the new wave of technology innovation or is it possible to have your cake and eat it?TRANSCRIPT
Secure, social, cloud
www.highqsolutions.com
Mutually exclusive or perfect partners?
Stuart Barr
Introduction
Stuart Barr
Director, HighQ
‣ Background in technology, social, legal
‣ HighQ is a leading provider of secure
collaboration and publishing software
to the legal, banking, life sciences and
government sectors.
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Can we have our cake and eat it?
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Is cloud-based social
software inherently risky for
enterprises looking to take
advantage of the new wave
of technology innovation or
is it possible to have your
cake and eat it?
“
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A new wave of technology adoption
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‣ Cloud computing
‣ Social software
‣ Mobile access
Benefits of the cloud
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‣ Reduce costs
‣ Rapid deployment
‣ Flexibility and scalability
‣ Access from anywhere
Accelerating adoption of social tools
‣ Workforce productivity
‣ Communication & collaboration
‣ Knowledge sharing
‣ Internal and external
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Established cloud players lead the way
‣ Salesforce
‣ Zoho
‣ Amazon
‣ Microsoft
‣ Apple
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In theory, social + cloud = good
‣ Cheap, scalable computing
‣ Software on demand
‣ Cost and resource savings
‣ Access to latest innovations
‣ Timely deployments
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Not so fast
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Is the cloud secure?
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Popular misconception no.1
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The cloud is less secure than
an in-house solution hosted
in my own data centre.“”
Consumer-grade services
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Fantastic – but probably not the best
place in the cloud to store your sensitive
corporate data… we need something else
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Enterprise-grade services
‣ Specialist providers
‣ Focused on the enterprise
‣ High-grade security & control
‣ Independently audited
‣ Smaller, private clouds
Specialist cloud providers
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‣ Depend on trust of their clients
‣ Must be as secure as on-premise
‣ Robust, reliable, secure services
‣ State-of-the-art technology firms
Popular misconception no.2
Social is a waste of time,
it’s about sharing and being
open, it’s risky and insecure.“”
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Take the best from the consumer web
‣ Best ideas from consumer tools
‣ Take them into the enterprise
‣ Add new security and controls
Enterprise-grade social tools
‣ Robust and advanced controls
‣ Choose who to share with
‣ Be as open or closed as you need
‣ Various levels of privilege & access
‣ Internal and external users
“Facebook for the enterprise”
‣ File sharing
‣ Wikis & blogs
‣ Microblogs
‣ Tasks & calendars
‣ People profiles
‣ Activity streams
‣ Feeds and filters
What “social” really means
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‣ Emphasising people and connections
‣ Enterprise-grade collaboration tools
‣ Convert work product into knowledge
‣ Create and share in the same system
‣ Gain a corporate peripheral vision
So, I can have my cake and eat it?
‣ Secure, social, cloud is possible
‣ Do your due diligence
‣ Choose your providers carefully
‣ Ask the difficult questions
‣ Demand evidence they are secure
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These firms are already doing it
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Questions
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