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Salesforce Encryption - part 1

June 30, 2015
By Anthony Scotney

It was disheartening to read that a Financial Services Regulator's guidelines around data sovereignty lead to the termination of a Salesforce® deployment by a large bank. This mandate at least in part resulted in the bank abandoning their $10 million Salesforce investment. The reason this is a disheartening result is because there are cloud data protection solutions (such as Salesforce encryption) that can alleviate much of the security concern that exists with cloud applications.

Cloud Encryption Explained

April 20, 2015
By Anthony Scotney

Significant cost drivers have squarely placed the cloud in the sights of CIOs. Unfortunately, these drivers have often been stalled by a fear that the cloud is an exposed environment that is not only difficult to secure but also a regulatory nightmare. Fortunately, there are concrete mechanisms that can protect cloud applications against crippling data loss, leaks and breaches. Cloud data protection (also known as Cloud Encryption) is one such mechanism that forms the focus of this post.