PerspecSys

Overview

Security and privacy are areas that continue to come up time and again with cloud computing. Storing and sharing sensitive data is central to most people's concerns with cloud-based services. Of course, to be fair, such concerns are always paramount to users whether stored on-premise or not. For, example identity theft can occur through a mix of devious acts. Nonetheless, the issues of security and privacy get even more complex when you throw in government regulation that can dictates whether or not data can even travel outside a state, province or country.

PerspecSys tackles the issue of data security by allowing companies to run their applications in the cloud, while maintaining their data behind the corporate firewall. PerspecSys runs between the user's desktop and their datacenter's firewall. It intercepts the data moving to a public cloud and dynamically replaces the "real" data with "replacement" data. This is particularly important for sensitive and restricted data that cannot move outside the company or, due to regulatory compliance, cannot move beyond state, federal or national borders.

Value Proposition

PerspecSys helps companies to take advantage of cloud computing services that they may otherwise be unable to because of concerns or rules over privacy and government compliance. PerspecSys puts control in the hands of the enterprise so that they can remain compliant with data privacy requirements. Equally important it keeps data locally resident by replacing the actual data with dummy data in the cloud application. As a result, security over sensitive data is maintained within the enterprise and managed based on its preferred levels of access and control.

Products & Services

PerspecSys Salesforce.com Edition is the company's first generally available solution for data governance within a cloud computing environment. It allows customers that use Saleforce.com CRM or, that create applications on the Force.com platform, to store their company data behind the corporate firewall. It is designed to ensure that "sensitive data stays locally resident, private and secure".