Strong encryption and natural language search can be like oil and water. That’s because encrypted data can’t be digested by your typical search engine. However, CipherCloud announced a solution to that knotty problem last week. The latest version of the 3-year-old company’s cloud-based service includes searchable strong encryption. It allows data encrypted with the strong AES 256-bit standard to be searched within popular cloud applications such as Salesforce.com, Box, Microsoft Office 365, Google Gmail and Amazon Web Services.
With the experience I've had over the last couple of years on a Salesforce implementation through encryption, I completely agree with John's statements.
As a Business Analyst, it's been very frustrating having to go back to the business and say that they can't have this function or that change because of the restrictions that CipherCloud's encryption gateway has imposed. A lot of Saleforce's benefits are just not freely available as they should be because of this. Searching, emails, reporting have all been limited. It's a shame, SF is a great product but not when it has to go through encryption.
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Strong Encryption, Natural Language Search Make Potent Cocktail
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. October 22, 2013 05:00 AMStrong encryption and natural language search can be like oil and water. That’s because encrypted data can’t be digested by your typical search engine. However, CipherCloud announced a solution to that knotty problem last week. The latest version of the 3-year-old company’s cloud-based service includes searchable strong encryption. It allows data encrypted with the strong AES 256-bit standard to be searched within popular cloud applications such as Salesforce.com, Box, Microsoft Office 365, Google Gmail and Amazon Web Services.
As a Business Analyst, it's been very frustrating having to go back to the business and say that they can't have this function or that change because of the restrictions that CipherCloud's encryption gateway has imposed. A lot of Saleforce's benefits are just not freely available as they should be because of this. Searching, emails, reporting have all been limited. It's a shame, SF is a great product but not when it has to go through encryption.
Simon.
UK.