However, a user can recall the necessary records of information from Salesforce.com to his or her company's legal location, and PRS Server will substitute the proper PII for the token so that the user sees the correct information transparently without having to take any action. Note that PRS Server can also detect the location from where the user (say, through a laptop) is accessing the data to make sure that the user, who may be authorized to access data, is also authorized to access data from wherever he or she is located at the time.
Moreover, the PRS Server collects detailed log files of who accessed what, where and when, so it serves an auditing function to ensure compliance. Policies can be set to ensure compliance within whatever jurisdiction an enterprise is located. In fact, multiple site organizations that are located in many different jurisdictions, and with both internal and external data centers, can have restrictions put on for their own internal use.
PerspecSys works with SaaS applications as well as some platform-as-a-service (PaaS) capabilities, and plans to extend its support in the future.
Rather than taking a broad brush to cloud "security," enterprises need to take a planned approach in which each relevant aspect of security is examined and measured on a very focused basis and later integrated as necessary. One inhibiting factor to the adoption of SaaS in the public cloud may very well be the need to prevent PII from getting into those very environments. In such cases, PerspecSys' PRS Server qualifies as a clear and definitive solution.
PRS Server cleverly replaces PII with encryption or a token that cannot be read at the public cloud, but doesn't prevent a legal user from integrating PII with the other information created and used in a SaaS application back home when necessary. Since legal authorities are satisfied, enterprise legal departments and IT can breathe easily, and users can rest assured that their private data remains so. As a result of PerspecSys' innovation, an IT problem is solved before it becomes a crisis, and another barrier to public cloud adoption is removed.
At the time of publication, PerspecSys is not a client of David Hill and the Mesabi Group.
