Web Office Security

Office documents equal corporate secrets and while the recent developments in the Web Office space from Google, Adobe, Microsoft, ThinkFree, and Zoho are painting an attractive picture of tomorrow's Office suite but new questions about of corporate information security arise as the Office suite morphs into an online/offline hybrid.

Zoho recently made headlines with accepting Google and Yahoo logins meaning that users don't have to have  a separate Zoho login. However, while I've been avidly following Web Office suite developments the Zoho announcement about accepting Google and Yahoo logins was positively consumer. I've yet to read about a major enterprise win for Zoho or any other Web Office vendor for that matter and/or security developments like two-factor security with RSA SecurIDs.

Document security is also an integral requirement of leading compliance programs like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, and COSO making security a top requirement for an organization seeking to introduce a Web Office suite into their enterprise.

While Web Office security seems to be maturing, it is not yet enterprise ready.