01: Security and Enterprise Search

Historically, enterprise search vendors have done a poor job addressing the subject of security.  In some cases, vendors didn’t have a good enough answer (and some are still struggling), hence the reason for the radio silence on the topic.  But in the main, I think we merely took the topic for granted and made assumptions that security would just be “taken care of” in the natural course of IT management.

With the continued rise in bigger and broader federated search deployments, security is only becoming more important, and as a result we’re doing more in terms of educating enterprises on the topic.  Our latest effort is a technical white paper titled, “The Principles of Security Management in the Context of Secure Search.”  While this paper won’t serve as a “how-to” manual on the subject of secure search, it does provide a suitable framework for better understanding the topic and ensuring your security managers are comfortable with the requirements.

Posted in Enterprise Search, Federated Search, Security

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