Secure, social, cloud

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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

‣ Google

‣ 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

info@highqsolutions.com

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