Excellent checklist. Anyone who is directly accountable for operations but only a non-voting advisory role for platform selection will have flashbacks reading this list.
Start by analyzing whichever email service you use.<p>Add additional checkboxes:<p>- [y/n] Is SMS the only 2FA method available?<p>- [y/n] Is there no 2FA at all?<p>- [y/n] Do they have a history of unpatched zero-days?<p>- [y/n] Is it possible that if there is a security breach, you won't hear about it because no tech journalist pays attention to this service?<p>- [y/n] Can someone socially engineer the support team to get access to your account?<p>- [y/n] If a hacker gets access to your account, can your bank accounts be drained?
That smiley face is very optimistic. I ticked several showstoppers, and it's still grinning. What a can-do trooper!<p>Also, when using this analysis platform to vet production architectures, the more terrifying a SaaS/PaaS option is, the more clearly the indicator "green lights" that plan.<p>I suspect that enterprise sales is involved.
It is interesting too how many of these are things people in one way or another… want / incentivize.<p>A large chunk of the individual consumer web is free services where we are the product… but generally we won’t pay / use much of anything else.<p>Then we get upset when the service nobody is paying (or not enough) costs money and/or dies.<p>We as consumers seem attracted to / incentivize the inevitable “eshit…”
things are so bad, "may your startup never be featured, even tangentially, on rachel's site" is the new "may you live in interesting times" :D
Needs some other questions added. :)<p>* Does your house have an audio/video doorbell that staff or contractors of the company could ever interact with?
This seems to be quite applicable for services, if you took the questions and applied them to products, especially operating systems or programming languages, we're all in deep deep trouble.
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