Beverly Magda,the Humane Society's CIO, writes in InformationWeek how her organization's fundraising efforts have been aided by new IT applications to support secure credit card transactions.
Turning to SaaS, she said the animal advocacy organization instituted an on-demand compliance service called QualysGuard to provide a reliable, automated way to conduct independent network security audits and securely transmit compliance reports to acquiring banks.
"SaaS opened our eyes to a new way of doing things. With QualysGuard, we didn't need to install any software or infrastructure. QualysGuard runs on Qualys' own secure global infrastructure, so we run security audits on-demand over the Internet with a standard web browser," she said.
To read more:
- see this InformationWeek.com article [1]
Links:
[1] http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207800343