Richard Ferrick, Network Administrator, Panama City, Florida
Hear from state and local agencies who have adopted SaaS/Cloud applications and platforms. The agencies will discuss the factors taken into consideration when selecting a particular solution or platform, hurdles that developed during adoption, and what every ISV should know when selling to the state and local agencies
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24. CloudLock - provides visibility & control into Panama City’s Cloud - Google Docs
Intro slide – Quick intro to Richard Ferrick, Network Administrator at Panama City – responsible for the city’s implementation of cloud computing
Today we leverage the cloud extensively and are able to innovate and provide more services and functionality without sacrificing the controls we need to ensure the safety of our data
We understood early on that our data in the cloud is still ours and needs to be equally protected, like our on-premise data. We use the cloud as our file server and need to make sure we foster collaboration but don’t leave room for human error and potential data breaches.Cloud Data Protection at the City of Panama has 3 elements:Data Governance – this helps us ensure that our employees are leveraging the cloud in accordance with defined policiesData Protection – making sure the data is where it should be, to prevent data loss or tamperingData Analytics – understanding user adoption, collaboration, helps us leverage our investment
A big consideration in our decision to go with Google Apps was the extensibility of the Marketplace model. We can seamlessly expand our offering with 3rd party applications that install in seconds, and provide immediate value, and only pay for what we truly need. This innovation multiple allows us to build a truly best-of-breed solution at a fraction of the cost.
We needed an “Enterprise Class Data Protection Solution”That’s exactly what we found with CloudLock.We can manage our Google Docs implementation as the cloud file server that it is.IT controls enable us to inventory all the documents in the domain without having to be shared on every single document.We can identify and quickly fix any data exposuresOur domain is continuously monitoredWe can migrate data between accounts with a simple wizard