NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MICHAEL COONEY ON TECHNOLOGY UPDATE 12/01/04 Today's focus: Google search and SSL VPNs struggle to co-exist
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * A look at the security problems with Google's Desktop Search ��and SSL VPNs * Links related to Technology Update * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by SBC Dialing for Dollars CRATE & BARREL'S VOIP MOVE NETS SAVINGS AND FLEXIBILITY An apples-to-apples comparison showed that a centralized, software-based, IP-based platform could provide significant cost savings and productivity benefits over a comparable, traditional PBX system. Download whitepaper now, click here http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=88827 _______________________________________________________________ COMPREHENSIVE ENTERPRISE STORAGE INFORMATION Go to NW Fusion's Research Center for detailed information on enterprise storage. Find the latest breaking news, case studies, white papers, commentary, reviews and more. Topics on how ILM impacts your storage strategy, how to migrate to a new tape drive, how to link SAN islands and more are all found in the Research Center. Click here: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=89310 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Google search and SSL VPNs struggle to co-exist By Michael Cooney We have done a couple stories in the past two weeks that look at the security problems with Google's Desktop Search program and SSL VPNs. As reported by Tim Greene ( <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) customers are concerned that SSL VPN data might be cached and indexed by Google Desktop Search on a machine that is out of corporate control, such as an employee's home PC or one borrowed by an employee visiting a business associate. To address these concerns SSL VPN vendors that sell versions of Sygate's Virtual Desktop software touted it as a way to quarantine and encrypt SSL VPN sessions. But they discovered during tests with Network World last week that Google Desktop Search could still grab the content of Word documents and cache it in readable form. Since then, Sygate says it has developed a fix for the bug that it distributed last week. It also has sought the help of Google to create a foolproof way for SSL VPN sessions to vanish from hard drives without a trace. Google says it is considering the request. It's an interesting problem. For more on this see: <http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/112204google.html> RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Google debuts desktop search app Network World Fusion, 10/14/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1014google.html The potential security danger of Google's Desktop Search Network World VPNs Newsletter, 11/16/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/vpn/2004/1115vpn1.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Michael Cooney Michael Cooney is an Associate News Editor. 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