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This is actually part of my key note address at IIFT India's National Marketing Conference 2013, #TradeWings. My friend Prof. Joyeeta Chatterjee and I are now working on a piece which will touch upon this as well.
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This is actually part of my key note address at IIFT India's National Marketing Conference 2013, #TradeWings. My friend Prof. Joyeeta Chatterjee and I are now working on a piece which will touch upon this as well.
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REVIEW OF GOOGLE’S CYBER SECURITY POLICYNAMEINSTRUCTOR’S N.docxjoellemurphey
REVIEW OF GOOGLE’S CYBER SECURITY POLICY
NAME
INSTRUCTOR’S NAME
COURSE TITLE
DATE
Introduction
Google is a global leader in technology and is the most popular search engine in the world. Its technologies mostly rely on cloud computing offering services like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google App Engine, Google Cloud Storage, You tube among many others.
Users are able to access these technologies from many devices ranging from desktop computers and mobile phones. These services can also be accessed from almost any location on earth. These services are also having many users who share information that is confidential and sensitive in nature.
As a result there presents itself a great need for the protection of this information on a real time basis.
Cyber Security Policies
The Google cyber security policies cover a wide array of topics that touch on security. These policies must be adhered to by each and every employee in the organization. These policies cover topic such as accounts, data and physical security among other internal sensitive information.
The internet crimes are extremely dynamic and change very rapidly. This calls for the need to periodically train the staff on how to handle data, use the internet safely, and operate from remotely safe locations among other uses like safe use of social technologies.
In line with keeping the policy requirements that are in place Google has various departments that deal with security concerns of various natures and even how to deal with breaches or suspected breaches to help mitigate their overall adverse effects that may be experienced by the business.
These departments include:
1. Organizational Security
Several teams focus on information security, global security auditing and compliance. In addition to these is a physical security team that protects the hardware. The information security team establishes the security perimeter and maintains the internal defensive systems in the organization. They also develop internal processes for security review and customized security infrastructure. The global security auditing and compliance team ensures that there is a statutory and regulatory compliance on a global scale. The physical security team is charged with ensuring that the organization’s premises are well guarded.
2. Data Asset Management.
Google’s data assets include customers, end user assets and corporate data assets. For the personnel handling the data there is compliance to procedures and guidelines by the security team.
3. Access Control
This deals with authentication and authorization controls that are designed to keep away unauthorized personnel from accessing data assets. This includes identification of users and employees when using Google’s resources. Approvals are limited to one’s status according to job description and type of user.
4. Physical and environmental security
This covers physical security, environmental controls, power, climate and temperature, and fi ...
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View on-demand recording: http://securityintelligence.com/events/how-vulnerable-is-your-critical-data/
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2. The products help users manage firewall configurations, log files from multiple sources, and network device configurations by automating processes and providing centralized visibility and control.
3. Managing firewalls, logs, and device configurations manually is time-consuming and error-prone, while the SolarWinds products provide point-and-click interfaces to simplify management tasks.
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INSTRUCTOR’S NAME
COURSE TITLE
DATE
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Four important trends in it and security implications
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Four Important Trends in Information
Technology and their Impact on
Organizational Security and Privacy
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
University System of Georgia
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• Shortage of IT personnel
• Clouds and Economies of Scale
• Consumerization of IT
• Data, Big Data, Location-based computing and
Data-Driven Decision-Making
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• Less folks + less qualified folks = more work.
• More salary will be necessary to attract folks.
• Internal salary inequities will be difficult to
manage.
• You may need to take more risk in hiring
employees (skillset, turnover, non-dedicated
resources, etc.).
Implications
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Advantages of
Statewide Network
• Economies of Scale
• Proactive Growth
• Campus Agility
• Traffic Prioritization
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• Clouds and Economies of Scale
– Market pressures are driving consolidation and
moving IT services to private or public clouds.
– Economy of scale pricing example: the cost of 35
colleges and universities HR contract is much less
than the cost of two R1 institutions (Georgia
Health Sciences University and Georgia Tech)
combined.
– Library consortiums are the same.
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HR
•Shared
Services
•32/35
centralized
•Outsourced to
ADP
Fin
•GeorgiaFIRST
•32/35 at ITS
•34/35
PeopleSoft
LMS
•GeorgiaVIEW
•31/35 at ITS
soon to be
34/35
•34/35 BlB/D2L
SIS
•GeorgiaBEST
•8/35 at ITS
•34/35 Banner
•520 GA Mods
BI
•USG123
•Being rebuilt
•35/35 at ITS
•Not fully
utilized
NET
•PeachNet
•35/35 at ITS
•Extensive
external state
participation
LIB
•GALILEO & GIL
•35/35
centralized
• Extensive
external
participation
State Ed Ecosystem
USG Educational
Cloud
Race to the
Top
Public
Cloud
Public
Cloud State Ed Ecosystem
State Educational Cloud
Now
Soon
Longer
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Implications
• Integration and protection of corporate data is
going to be difficult.
• All the eggs in one basket requires a really safe
and secure basket.
• Some standardization (lack of control) is
required.
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Consumerization of IT
– Bring Your Own Device will change
campus culture, security, and instructional
delivery
– Managed/Unmanaged Applications
– Private/Work Split
– Who Owns the data?
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• How much loss of control is acceptable?
• Protection of the data
• Change Management of Personnel
• Complexity is about to increase (need endpoint
management and federated identity
management)
Implications
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• Data….
• Big Data…..
• Location-based Big Data…..
• Big Data Driven Decision Making…..
“On the Internet, the First Amendment is
a local ordinance,” said Fred H. Cate, a
law professor at Indiana University.
What are folks saying about your
organization on Facebook?
What are doing about what they
are saying?
Do you even know?
Need decisions now
Requires a report
Report requires a collection
Collection requires months
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• Unknown: We don’t need no stink’in data
governance.
• Jack Burton: It is all in the reflexes.
• Steve Wright: I don’t want to own everything.
I would not know where to put it.
Implications
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Questions, Comments,
A Conversation
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer
University System of Georgia