Ok, so the Christmas holidays are over and the UK is coming to a grinding halt due to snow and Manchester is no exception. So on a cold wintery day I am working from home and connected to my office holding a number of online meetings both with and without video and my productivity is as good, if not better than that of in the office.
Anyhow, I got thinking about what makes this possible, and that led to me to think about security, as without formal security procedures and processes we would not realise the productivity we at Dataplex are currently enjoying.
So as I was thinking about security and it is a New Year (Decade), I decided to have a punt on what may happen in the world of online security in 2010. Don’t place any bets on these, and if you do and win my email address is cb@dplex.co.uk and you can you can use PayPal :)
1. Cloud security standards emerge. By the end of 2010, we’ll see a framework emerge for establishing a well defined set of technology, practices, and processes, organised into different levels of trust. Ultimately, adherence to these specifications will need be certified by third parties.
2. Federation will start to take off by the end of 2010. Use of federation will be fuelled by SaaS and cloud computing and the need for single sign-on to bridge identities
3. Web content security in the cloud will take off. Though managed email security is one of the more popular areas of security SaaS, organisations have been slow to adopt the SaaS model for Web content security. This will change in 2010.
Sure there are way more than this, but just a few that come to mind.