Tag Archives: security

March 8, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Please Don’t Market By Eviscerating Your Competitors–It’s Unseemly

By Ben Kepes

Last November I covered the launch of Filelocker – a company looking to build a cloud backup and collaboration service that meets the needs of enterprise IT. In their launch blurb they came out with guns blaing, with a very thinly veiled comment about Box: Front and center they’ve taken

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January 31, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

More Proof That Shadow IT is a Growing Issue

By Ben Kepes

When talking with organizations about how the cloud can help them, I’m often told that cloud has no place in their organization and they’re not using it in any way, shape or form. They also point to the perceived security risks that cloud brings as their #1 reason for not

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November 30, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

BYOD Is All About Enabling The Organization Of The Future

By Ben Kepes

A while ago over on GigaOm, Matt McLarty of Layer 7 Technologies wrote an awesome post about the rise of Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. For those who haven’t spent much time thinking about the term, BYOD describes the new paradigm where individuals within an organization supply their own devices (mobile,

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November 13, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box

By Ben Kepes

On a daily basis I get press releases from companies offering to be the “Dropbox for the Enterprise”, these companies are treading the well worn path of leveraging the well recognized name of a player in order to get their point across. Perhaps in an indication of the market success

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September 27, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Terms of Service, and a Global Code

By Ben Kepes

A little while ago Klint Finley wrote a post in which he profiled TOS;DR a site that aims to give end users visibility over the terms of service for different application. TOS;DR aims to, in their own words; [create] a transparent and peer-reviewed process to rate and analyse Terms of

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July 31, 2012 Posted in Business 12 Comments

Dropbox Security Issues–IT has itself to Blame

By Ben Kepes

So Dropbox, the file sharing, backup and sync service that has been setting the world on fire, seems to have had some serious problems of late. It seems a large number of users have received spam e-mails and, in response, Dropbox has bought in a SWAT team of security experts

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November 23, 2011 Posted in Business 3 Comments

Closing the Door Before the Horse Bolts – On Passwords For Cloud

By Ben Kepes

The advent of the Internet (actually the advent of software used by the general populace) has create an entire new bunch of folks with ulcers caused by the worries around password management. Passwords it seem are both the bane of our existence and, apparently, the most important thing in our

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November 11, 2011 Posted in Business 1 Comment

A Checklist for Customer Cloud Security

By Ben Kepes

I often hear how Cloud is insecure from people who claim that unauthorized access is a real and significant risk for users of Cloud Computing. It always kind of frustrates me as, in my (admittedly somewhat biased) view, Cloud is as secure, if not more so, than traditional IT. In

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November 3, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloud Security – It’s All About Partnership

By Ben Kepes

Cloud Computing, like marriage, is an example of a situation needing ongoing work from both parties to make for success. It was the over-arching theme of the CloudUreport we published recently which took a deep look at Cloud Security. In the report we reflected on the fact that, rather than the

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May 12, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

LastPass Demonstrates Impeccable Crisis Handling

By Ben Kepes

By now it’s old news – password service LastPass (possibly my favorite app of all time) noticed some unusual activity from their logs and went into the highest levels of DEFCON, contacting all its users (myself included) and forcing a password change and other measures. There’s been a bit of

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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