Cloud Computing

[tec0]

The reason they use an online service is simply because the many partners are all located in different cities. The Superadmin is a director. I am an admin and the other directors are normal users.

This is a commercial global service provider but the client's situation is somewhat unique, in that they have no employees that are not directors. As with all enterprises, directors are allocated certain tasks, in line with their strengths, and his was simply to setup the service and system.

I get what you mean though and many years of audit agrees with you. But sometimes clients have a different view and goals that don't even come near my compliance concerns. Many smaller businesses still see the accounting function as a necessary evil and nothing more. Until.......

Honestly you are right, and yes some companies clients have such a heavy reliance on "online" services that they cannot have it any other way. The only suggestion if at all possible is to create a "Owner role" give it supremacy when it comes to account management only? This would be a stupid role because if anyone gets access to it they can just create a user account and abuse that. So there will always be risk. Hence the owner account must only be known by 1 or 2 individuals at most.

I normally structure it like this Owner > Supper user, user and so on. Making it that The Owner account cannot be deleted "if possible by the Supper user. Again it comes down to platform, infrastructure and what is possible. Makes one wish for just active directory right? Active directory when it works it works well and i love it. My current office is basically a second hand server with a view VMs running what i needs "file sharing, VN and VPN for remote login. I found Microsoft "as much as i HATE to say it" useful Functional. i can control any device on my network remotely and because everything is VM and hosted locally i can still do a lot of "magic".

But i am looking into renting a server with KVM and want to rock Ubuntu on it. The idea is to run a few scripts on it to see what is possible. The idea is to have a script pushing data to a google drive account upon log out. Then a second script will delete all the data on the server at specified time. The idea is IF i lose access to the server there will be nothing on it, if it gets compromised there is literally only an install. As you know yourself Linux can delete Neo from the Matrix if bothered to do so, so it is a safe way to push data in and out using 2 cloud services. This will allow me to do 3 things. 1 work from any device that can host a browser. 2 have a larger system for compute and 3 still have access to my data if i lose access to the server. But for now i am happy hosting everything locally. It is just i plan to travel next year and i want to be able to work from any place. But at this point i digress i think i am drifting of topic

[New Perspective studio]

Hi, Guys just to drop something in here, this a people problem. I work with a lot of businesses most of whom don't use cloud computing. I've seen it all, from a guy who was put in charge take a lot of product uploads, getting hold of clients and making them pay into his bank account to chaps who created websites for a business that have scripts redirecting clients to pay the employee. Ive seen original devs or ex IP guys comeback and leave doors back into the system and wreak havoc.
From a psychological point what I've noticed is as soon as people see big money moving through these systems that's where the ideas and temptation start. It always amazed me however that many of these people seem completely incompetent when it comes to their jobs, but when they need to find a way to hijack sales they are extremely resourceful.

[adrianh]

Hi, Guys just to drop something in here, this a people problem. I work with a lot of businesses most of whom don't use cloud computing. I've seen it all, from a guy who was put in charge take a lot of product uploads, getting hold of clients and making them pay into his bank account to chaps who created websites for a business that have scripts redirecting clients to pay the employee. Ive seen original devs or ex IP guys comeback and leave doors back into the system and wreak havoc.
From a psychological point what I've noticed is as soon as people see big money moving through these systems that's where the ideas and temptation start. It always amazed me however that many of these people seem completely incompetent when it comes to their jobs, but when they need to find a way to hijack sales they are extremely resourceful.

You must PLEASE tell us more about these sorts of incidents - I bet you have lots of interesting stories. I will start a thread called "The Fraud Files" where these stories can be told.

[New Perspective studio]

You must PLEASE tell us more about these sorts of incidents - I bet you have lots of interesting stories. I will start a thread called "The Fraud Files" where these stories can be told.

Oh? Go ahead.