http://www.cnet.com/news/google-goes-public-with-security-audits-to-assuage-enterprise-concerns/
By Seth Rosenblatt @sethr
Security
CNet News
August 27, 2014
Google is taking unprecedented steps to show its cloud, business, and
education customers that data protection is its top priority.
To prove its commitment, Google is making the details of an independent
security audit and of a security compliance certificate available to the
public for the first time on its Google Enterprise security site. The SOC
3 Type II audit report and updated ISO 27001 certificate denote security
approval for Google Apps for Business, Google Apps for Education, and
Google Cloud Platform.
Security and data centers are both big business. Google currently employs
more than 450 full-time security engineers, and a Gartner study projects
that companies will spend nearly 8 percent more on security this year than
they did last year.
The SOC 3 report and the ISO certificate that Google made public are
widely accepted, internationally recognized security compliance standards.
The SOC 3 is essentially a shorter report from the same audit as the
longer SOC 2, while the ISO certification covers organizational and
logical security.
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