Eating our own secure dog food
Media Sourcery CEO Larry Ketchersid writes on Infosec Island how the company uses its own products in working with its partners and customers:
Similar to security assessments, network architecture designs and other projects, a development project, such as this one involves the exchange of confidential data, including in this case, intellectual property designs, requirements documents, test plans, code fragments and roadmaps.
We could have chose to exchange these documents over email, or printed them out and sent them next day parcel post.
Instead, we “ate our own dogfood” and utilized IslandPKI. This gave us and our partners several advantages and efficiencies:
- the timeliness of email, with notification of new content; (the notifications aided our workflow allowing the requirements, design and development process to proceed apace)
- encrypted content; (no loss of IP, protected by our built-in PKI system);
- digital signing; (for non-repudiation);
- tracking;
- confirmation of receipt;
- little to no training for our partners; (so the bringing new members to the team did not impede the process).
Read the entire article here.
