Why Business Analysis is essential for Salesforce.com Implementations
Due to the power and flexibility of the Salesforce.com tool, understanding the role it will play in your organization is the most important piece of a successful implementation. This is where the skillful use of business analysis can be invaluable. Salesforce.com is a powerful and flexible tool that can be combined with partner applications to become the primary application for your business. Salesforce.com can also be implemented to simply support sales force automation, call centers or marketing. So properly determining the scope of the implementation and defining the success measures will help to ensure a successful implementation. A business analyst should be used in your organization to ensure you are using Salesforce.com effectively. This business analyst can serve as an advisor and can become an important extension of your organization and the primary … Read entire article »
Why use Transport Layer Security (TLS) for email encryption?
Why use Transport Layer Security (TLS) for email encryption? Sending unencrypted messages increases the risk that messages can be intercepted or altered. TLS security technology is designed to protect confidentiality and data integrity by encrypting e-mail messages between servers and thereby reducing the risk of eavesdropping, interception, and alteration. TLS is also a widely recognized standard issued by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for securing transmitted data and is now supported on most commercial mail servers. For those who may be new to TLS but already familiar with SSL it may help to know that TLS is the successor to the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. Who can use TLS? Financial institutions can benefit greatly from the use of TLS. In fact, the general consensus among many financial institutions is that there is … Read entire article »
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Review: McAfee Vulnerability Manager
On one of my project assignments I had the opportunity to work with the McAfee Vulnerability Manager appliance (formerly Foundstone). It is a very powerful network vulnerability scanner. This appliance can do relatively quick discovery scans of network assets across the enterprise looking for possible threats that would be vulnerable to attack. It can also provide very detailed information if provided with proper credentials for the assets being scanned. This means that the system not only … Read entire article »
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