Google looks to security certifications in effort to become 'a bank for data'

Google looks to security certifications in effort to become 'a bank for data':






As an increasing number of businesses and government agencies begin relying on Google's cloud services, the company is going to increasing lengths to prove the security of things like Google Apps. In an interview with Wired, enterprise security director Eran Feigenbaum compares Google to early banking systems. "It’s very similar to the situation banks were in hundreds of years ago," he says. "They had to convince us to give them our money, to take the money out from under the mattress and put it in the bank."
In order to do that, Google has passed through several rounds of external security testing, most recently the highly-regarded ISO 27001 certification process. The traditional certification model, however, has caused problems, says...
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