--- On Sat, 7/25/09, security curmudgeon <[email protected]> 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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