Re: All your database (and email) are belong to us ...

[chris () blask org]

--- On Sat, 7/25/09, security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org> wrote:
 
> To me, this doesn't indicate a company you can trust on
> security any more than another random company.

There isn't anything particular about Google that makes me think of them as a company that is particularly stellar (or 
not) on matters of security, but the point that struck me is that *as compared to a large collection of random 
municipal gov't network admins* there are probably at least two things to be said for Google as a secure storage 
solution:

1/  Google can afford a large and potentially talented security team.

2/  Should any one incident occur at Google the lessons learned are likely to be applied across the organization.

These are good points to some extent for any hosted standardized solution - just as buying a firewall has these things 
going for it as opposed to building your own.  Google has the additional advantage of billions of dollars and massive 
resources, and perhaps the disadvantage of being extremely visible as well.

-chris


      
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