Written by Yoav Aner, April 9 2012 One of my primary aims when building a resillient cloud architecture, is being able to spawn instances quickly. Many cloud providers give you tools to create images or snapshots of existing cloud instances and launch them. This is great, but not particularly portable. If I have one instance [...]
Most people I know tend to simply use the same password on ALL websites. Email, Paypal, Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Twitter. This is obviously a very bad idea. Passwords are always a problem. Difficult to remember, hard to think of a good one when you need a new one, tricky to keep safe. For the moderately-paranoid [...]
Perhaps this is not strictly related to Testuff, but my article with Dr. Carlos Cid was recently published on SearchSecurity. Hope it might give some of you ideas on evaluating security for open-source as well as closed-source projects. The scope covers more than security-testing, but touches on elements of testing and assessment for security bugs [...]
Is there anybody out there? As a SaaS based test management software provider we face a few challenges, which are a result of the distance between us, as the vendor, and the customers out there. In distance we refer to the real actual distance, which is in many cases simply the other side of the [...]
As a company, which develops tools and services for the software testing industry, it is important for us to follow up on its trends and future predictions. We like to think that since we are part of this industry, and have a dialog with others in it (such as customers, experts, competitors and others), we know what's currently [...]
You probably don’t even know, and I bet you use maybe 2-3 of them. 4 if you are really into washing your clothes as a hobby. This applies to most of our appliances and gadgets, our mobile phones, ipods and digital cameras. We usually don’t even know what the options are; we simply use [...]
"Built to Last", the successful book by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, tells us about great organizations, real visionary companies that have prospered over long periods of time, and shows the unique practices and habits that these companies adopted. But I wonder if any of these companies' CEO or founders could answer a simple question: [...]
Continuing the SaaS series after a short break, we've seen that folks are afraid of SaaS security. However, there are further concerns people have with SaaS. One of them is SaaS reliability. The concern may be expressed as follows: I'm worried about reliability. There might be outages and congestion accessing hosted services on the [...]
Last week I started a series of posts to examine why people are afraid of SaaS. So, let's dive in and examine one of the fears that I have seen come up all too often - fear of SaaS security. Someone who's afraid that SaaS isn't secure may make the following claim: I don't use [...]
When Testuff was established the founders discussed what would be the right model for it. SaaS (Software as a Service) was the lucky winner. The decision was made since we figure that small companies don't like and can't afford to keep lot's of servers around. They take up maintenance time, machines and IT guys [...]
