Video Viewfinity CEO Says Many Computer Users Are Overprivileged (Video) 95
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This isn't about your place in society, but about user privileges on your computers and computer networks. The more privileges, the more risk of getting hacked and having Bad People do Bad Things to your company's computers, right? So Leonid Shtilman's company, Viewfinity, offers SaaS that helps you grant system privileges in a more granular manner than just allowing "root" and "user" accounts with nothing in between.
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And still... every security model you've seen in SaaS exists on your LAN, too.
It's not as though we haven't had group membership, directories, user objects, service-level security, and every other imaginable sort of permissions control since... well... forever.
The only advantage of SaaS is that it's on someone else's infrastructure, which is probably better funded and maintained than your own.
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Which also just means that you'll be twiddling your thumbs that much longer when you don't have the appropriate permissions to do your job. I find SaaS in general to be a lot like an Apple product. When everything is working right, it's 100x better than any of the alternatives. When something goes wrong, you curse the day you bought it.