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FREE and OSS CMS' encrypt customer data now.. Don't know where this myth that it costs money to do basic encryption is coming from..
by staplers 8y ago
FREE and OSS CMS' encrypt customer data now.. Don't know where this myth that it costs money to do basic encryption is coming from..
- myrion 8y agoThe cost in this case would be in switching. They're already using a system that works for them, why bother changing to something else?
- Kalium 8y agoYou're absolutely right! The basic software infrastructure that can be adapted to safely and securely handle user data is completely free. It may be worth considering that adapting said FLOSS software, doing the requisite custom integration work, and then doing a large migration successfully might all be perhaps slightly less free than the software you correctly and wisely point to.
- sbarre 8y agoLarge enterprises have extremely complex and interconnected systems. The real costs and work is in the migration and adoption of new tools (regardless of the cost of the tools themselves).
- EpicEng 8y agoIt's not only the cost to encrypt something. It's the cost to create security policies, hire people who know the field, implement protections beyond encrypting data at rest, updating old software to deal with the new security measures, etc. It's never as simple as "just encrypt that field". Until there's a good reason to do so people aren't going to bother.