It was a small event in the upstairs of ‘Kings Stores‘ pub, near Liverpool Street station, but it was the beginning of a real Salesforce community in London. 23rd June 2011 at 5pm, 5 years ago today around 30 or 40 ...
It was 5.40pm and my phone was ringing. I didn’t know it at the time but this was going to be one of “those calls”, I’d had one last year too. My friend had just left the bank after being ...
This month’s Admin user group was hosted by Slalom a US consultancy that has just created an office in London. Thanks Slalom for a great venue overlooking the Thames! First we had Andy talking about Slalom. Slalom is a US ...
Join the conversation on LinkedIn When David Giller from Brainate asked “Salesforce Training… Online or In Person?” on LinkedIn I couldn’t stop myself from replying. I very much believe training is just one part of being at brilliant at your ...
I am TOTALLY overjoyed to see eight new EU Salesforce MVPs!! Especially as several of them I mentored! I still remember when all the EU MVPs rocked up to the Salesforce London big Cloudforce event. There were just 4 of ...
Missed London’s Calling? Checkout the video above! But this is how it all started… It all really kicked off just before Dreamforce 2015 with Jodi Wagner, Simon Goodyear, Louise Lockie, Kerry Townsend & several bottles of Champagne. We were sitting around ...
Brent Downey has created a brilliant post on Salesforce’s new “Duplicate Management” tool. But one of the obvious features that is missing is being able to change the columns that the user sees when the Duplicate Management finds a match. ...
No fundamental reason why cloud services (including public cloud services) cannot be implemented, with appropriate consideration, in a manner that complies with our rules
- UK Financial Conduct Authority -
An interesting thing happened last month. The UKs Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) produced a document proposing new guidance for the financial services using third party cloud computing solutions.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is a financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, but operates independently of the UK government, and is financed by charging fees to members of the financial services industry. The FCA regulates financial firms providing services to consumers and maintains the integrity of the UK’s financial markets. It focuses on the regulation of conduct by both retail and wholesale financial services firms.
What I find interesting is how FCA has embraced cloud computing using Salesforce extensively in its operations. It can only be a good thing that the UK regulator for the financial services industry is paving the way for cloud-based services. I do sometimes get frustrated with companies who don’t have brilliant physical/logical security around their internal information assets, and then say having an internal solution makes it “more secure”. The majority of successful hacks come from within the company not from external.
Ransomware, insider threats… companies not prepared
A recent report showed that nearly half (46%) of small business owners have no employee responsible for data security and more alarming that 27% have no process or policies at all. But even larger companies This year has been a tough year for security with just this week yet another attack. JD Wetherspoon was hit by a cyber attack releasing over 650k of customers records.
Cloud computing setup correctly (or even in some cases out of the box) could be more secure than some companies internal systems. Just the basic fact that you could, in theory, lock your entire IT and development team out of your production environment and have the deployment of changes & administration function a business function and not an IT one. This makes Cloud Computing at a reduced risk of internal attack, and when the majority of hacks are internal, this has to be a good thing. Just talk to the CIA, if Snowden (an IT admin) hadn’t had full admin privileges when he didn’t need them things could have been very different.
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This event was on 5th Feb 2016 and has ended. Watch out for next year! Well, it all started at Dreamforce with a group of us sitting around a table a pub discussing a big community event for the UK. ...
Thank you everyone who came to the session. As promised here are the slides and links to videos. Don’t forget to follow us on twitter as we do publish Salesforce tips, tricks and blog posts from other Salesforce users. Any ...
