Tag Archives: security

23/11/2011 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

Tagged , , , , , |
11/11/2011 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

Tagged , , , , , |
03/11/2011 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

Tagged , , , , , , , |
12/05/2011 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

Tagged , , , |
08/09/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, Society 1 Comment

Capturing CAPTCHAs

By Ben Kepes

I read this amazing post over on ZDNet that details the massive operations out of India providing contract CAPTCHA solving services. It seems the contractors pull down hundreds of thousands of CAPTCHAs automatically from the likes of Craigslist, Gmail, Yahoo, MySpace, YouTube and Facebook, charging around $2 per 1000 solved

Tagged , , |
07/07/2008 Posted in Business, Collaboration, Design, IT, Society, Strategy 1 Comment

On mobile banking…

By Ben Kepes

With the release of the iPhone 3G, movement on affordable mobile dataplans and a myriad of new entrants in mobile applications, it is interesting to look at perceptions around mobile data. An interesting research piece from Unisys brings up the following statistics; worldwide there are 3.3 billion mobile phone subscribers

Tagged , , |
18/06/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New business, SaaS, Web x.0 10 Comments

Can you really trust a bootstrapped startup?

By Ben Kepes

RWW reports that online storage company DivShare, has had a security breach. Apparently a malicious user accessed their database which included user e-mail addresses and other profile information. They also say that no financial information has been accessed by any unauthorized parties. It’s not the first of these sort of

Tagged , |
13/06/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, SaaS 2 Comments

Banking and security…

By Ben Kepes

An excellent post over on Geekzone about a customer experience with a bank. Seems that the bank contacted their customer by phone in order to make some changes to their account. Said customer was asked to verify their identity by password but when he rightly pointed out to the bank

Tagged , |

The Author

Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance 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. More on Ben

Subscribe to the Blog

 Subscribe - Posts for all authors

Enter your email address and we'll send our posts to you: