Posts Tagged ‘security’

You can use Data Providers for Security? Recently, @techphoria414 asked on the Sitecore Stack Exchange: “What are some appropriate uses for Sitecore Data Providers?” My answer was: When Security is just too complicated for Sitecore. People offered a lot of suggestions with lots of ways to implement data providers using different strategies and philosophies. Still, I thought […]

Recent distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS) is a salient reminder that the continuous threat of security breaches always looms in the public consciousness. Between legal, technical, and business professionals, such events are enough to motivate leadership to pursue relevant cloud security solutions that drive peace-of-mind and customer confidence. Here at Perficient we talk to […]

APIs in the Current World With the advancement of SOA and new-age technologies coming door-to-door, we see how the Internet of Things is touching our everyday lives, be it from Apple Watch and Fitbit to building apps in automobiles, banking, the retail industry, etc. I recently read somewhere that eCommerce for JC Penny is gaining […]

A new quarterly Cybersecurity Market Report was published by Cybersecurity Ventures, projecting $1 trillion will be spent on cybersecurity between 2017 and 2021. According to Steve Morgan, founder and editor-in-chief of Cybersecurity Ventures, the increase in cybercrime, such as ransomware and malware, and the large number of digital devices being rapidly deployed by organizations and […]

Dennis K. Berman, financial editor of The Wall Street Journal, asked one of the simplest, yet greatest questions anyone could ask an executive at a major financial institution. During WSJ’s CFO Network conference, he asked Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan the following: “If you were building a bank today from scratch, what […]

Usually the Home Item in a Sitecore site infrastructure is a key item since all other pages of the site are descendants of this one item so if the wrong thing happens to this item, the site can go down.  So this particular item tends to get protected from a security stand point. A short […]

Whenever an organization considers moving systems to the “cloud”, the first question that comes up is: “What about security?”  This is an extremely important question and is almost always a showstopper for people new to the cloud.  If you move data to the cloud and don’t consider the consequences of not complying with industry and […]

“Phishing,” “spear phishing,” and “whaling” are not misspellings of aquatic sports. These words describe costly, illegal activities that use human engineering to steal, ransom and blackmail for profit, and Perficient’s information technology experts urge everyone to be aware of the distinctions and the dangers. Phishing is a fraudulent attempt, primarily made through email, to steal […]

Welcome to “Big Data and You (the enterprise IT leader),” the Enterprise Content Intelligence group’s demystification of the “Big Data” . The often missing piece of the Infrastructure as code movement emerging from the DevOps space is what we think of as DataOps. Big Data technologies are uniquely poised to fill this gap because they […]

For many of my clients security and privacy of data in the cloud is the top most priority.  Balancing the fine line of making your data secure but yet still allowing end users to get their jobs done efficiently and effectively is the key to success for a cloud implementation.   You cannot have security without usability because […]

Azure Mobile Apps (formerly known as Azure Mobile Services) provide a great cloud based framework for rapid development of mobile applications (which also could be used to develop web applications, when needed). Azure Mobile Apps empower developer with a tools set (both client-side and server-side) helping to tackle on common mobile application development tasks, like: […]

I recently ran into an interesting issue when developing a connector for a third-party API. When trying to connect to the API endpoint, I received the following error message: “An error occurred while making the HTTP request to https://<API endpoint>. This could be due to the fact that the server certificate is not configured properly […]