Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Should Google Desktop be banned? | Tech News on ZDNet:
"UK IT bosses are already taking measures to ban employees from downloading Google's Desktop search software on PCs and laptops because of the security risk to corporate data.
Analyst Gartner last week warned that the 'search across computers' feature on the latest version of Google Desktop poses an 'unacceptable risk' to many organizations because it allows people to share information and also stores some of that data on Google servers.
Google claims the enterprise version of the software includes security management controls to address corporate security concerns but a sample of UK IT bosses in silicon.com's 12-man CIO Jury user panel said they had already banned or planned to ban any use of Google Desktop within their organization..."
"UK IT bosses are already taking measures to ban employees from downloading Google's Desktop search software on PCs and laptops because of the security risk to corporate data.
Analyst Gartner last week warned that the 'search across computers' feature on the latest version of Google Desktop poses an 'unacceptable risk' to many organizations because it allows people to share information and also stores some of that data on Google servers.
Google claims the enterprise version of the software includes security management controls to address corporate security concerns but a sample of UK IT bosses in silicon.com's 12-man CIO Jury user panel said they had already banned or planned to ban any use of Google Desktop within their organization..."
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