Frost & Sullivan Google Chrome Analyst Briefing

How Google Chrome is Putting Your Company in Danger

Robert Ayoub, Industry Manager

Network Security

October 2, 2008

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Focus Points

• Google Chrome - The Gateway to Google Apps

• “Throw away your email server and fire your IT guy”

• Main Street vs. the CSO

• Strategic Recommendations for CSOs

• Conclusion

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Google Chrome - The Gateway to Google Apps

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“At Google, we spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a

browser. And like all of you, in our spare time, we shop,

bank, read news and keep in touch with friends - all using a browser. People are spending an increasing amount of

time online, and they're doing things never imagined when the web first appeared about 15 years ago.”

Why We Built a Browser -

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/why.html?hl=en


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• Google Chrome was officially released on September 2, 2008

• Lots of innovative features

• Crash Control

• Optimized Javascript

• Improved interface

Source: www.google.com

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Google Chrome – Security Features

• Google Chrome has implemented a number of security features

that other browsers should note:

• Sandboxing

• Phishing indication (which many browsers do offer)

• Virtual machine usage

• Enhanced security model


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Google Chrome Leads to Google Apps…

• The real danger to the organization does not come from the

browser itself.

• The danger comes from what the browser enables for the

organization:


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“Throw away your email server and fire your IT guy”

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Google Apps offer many advantages

• Integrated applications

• Easy to set up

• Full office productivity suite that’s online

• No maintenance

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• Numerous reductions in cost for organizations

• Reduction in infrastructure costs

• No new servers

• No new storage requirements

• Reduction in the update cycle for machines

• Reduction in patching costs

• Patching falls onto the host

• Reduced security costs

• All responsibility for security falls onto the host

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• For all the advantages, there is still one major disadvantage…

The minute that you put your data in the hands of your provider, you have just lost

control and security of that data!

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• Despite the fact that Google no doubt takes the security of

Google Apps very seriously, the truth of the matter is:

• There is no longer visibility into who is viewing the data

• There is no tracking of attacks

• There is no access control tracking or viewing of SIM data

• Even more scary is that the end users – those with no security

training – are the ones creating their own sites and moving data

outside the enterprise.

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Main Street vs. the CISO

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• Let me introduce Denise….

Source: Frost & Sullivan

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• This is Denise’s monitor

Source: Frost & Sullivan

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For the first time, end users are driving the adoption of application

in the enterprise, not IT.

Source: www.apple.comSource: http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=14437

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• With the first release of the iPhone into the Entrerpise

• The iPhone is Not Meant for Enterprises

• iPhone Not Good Enough for Business and Enterprise Users

• Not a Year later…

• The iPhone Trickles into the Enterprise

• Enterprise, Meet the iPhone

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Strategic Recommendations for CSOs

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• Recognize both the risks AND benefits of new devices and

applications.

• There might be compelling reasons to implement Google Apps within your organization.

• Know that doing so would instantly limit your visibility into the security around the data.

• What legal liability do you have?

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• Be vigilant

• Look for new devices to appear on the network.

• Look for data leaving the enterprise to sites like Google.

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• Educate your management and your users

• If your C-suite are likely early adopters, make sure they are aware of and accept the risks associated with bringing those devices into the enterprise.

• Make sure that your policies specifically cover the transfer of data outside the enterprise.

• Make sure your users understand the implications of bringing newdevices onsite and setting up their own sites or apps.

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Conclusion

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