Stuart Fawcett

London

IT Manager

With software tools becoming more complex, the cost of managing their life cycle increases in terms of both cash and required expertise. Cloud computing offers to remove much of the pain and end point costs of software ownership, rental models would allow costs to more readily track business requirements.
One major concern remaining is data security, the solution to which seems to be internal application encryption. It seems that something is missing in the database space where access to individual encrypted records is verified by the current role of the user. I’d expect to see a hierarchal access control system that allows members of a group with defined roles to see one row but not the next, an indexing by security profile. Then a database is inherently inaccessible unless your part of the controlling hierarchal group. Could a niche database player steal market share with a certifiably secure database?