HW17-B: Chapter 17

17.10)Your company wishes to move from using desktop applications to accessing the same functionality remotely as services. Identify three risks that might arise and suggest how these risks may be reduced.

1. Security: Accessing data remotely opens up your data to all kinds of attacks that were not possible on desktop applications. To combat these attacks, the company needs to make sure they keep their security systems up to date. Employees need to be educated against social engineering attacks as well.

1. Failure Management: Service based systems need to be constantly connected to the internet to accessed remotely. If this connection is interrupted, data will not be able to accessed. The company needs to make sure that connection problems are resolved as quickly as possible.

1. Performance: making the system a service adds another layer of complexity to the system because the data now has to be loaded over an internet connection. The system should be as efficient as possible to make sure that the system performs well enough for the users.