Web-cast musings

Was it great? No.

Was it utterly cringe inducing? No.

Better than expected? Probably.

What am I wittering on about? I did my second BrightTALK web-cast yesterday which was all about trying to show how cloud security need not sit (and indeed should not) apart from wider enterprise security frameworks. Given the topic I was expecting half of my audience to 'get it' and the other half to absolutely hate it; as it turned out the feedback was mostly positive albeit there was one member of the audience who only gave the presentation 1 star out of 5. But as I say, I was probably expecting more mixed ratings than I received and a number of 5 star ratings means it's currently standing at a 4.2/5 rating - which I'd certainly have taken before the gig! Main lesson for me is to try and not fit a 60 minute presentation into 40 minutes as I was aware that I was rushing through the content...

The really nice thing about BrightTALK is the ability to ask the audience to vote on questions of your choice. One of my questions gave a really interesting outcome - the question was around which service model the audience viewed as the most complex to secure. Both IaaS and SaaS scored 44% with PaaS only scoring 12%. I found this particularly interesting being as I was about to go on and say how I felt that PaaS was actually the most complex model to secure! Perhaps I should have run the vote again after the webcast... Now, I believe the low score for PaaS is probably because it's the model that's the least well understood - it's not as straightforward to understand as either IaaS or SaaS - rather than my audience believing it to be intrinsically more secure. But I could be wrong. Any comments out there? Do we need to expand more on what PaaS actually is?