...The Adallom Cloud Risk Report is published annually, detailing actionable insights and information mined from the Adallom subscriber base. This specific report incorporates analysis of cloud application usage for over one million enterprise SaaS enabled users traversing four dominant SaaS platforms: Salesforce, Box, Google Apps, and Office 365 between October 2013 and October 2014. This report is the first of its kind to detail application usage patterns and risky behaviors for the top SaaS applications used by businesses. The key findings in this report reaffirm the need for a new approach to data governance, risk management, and security in the context of cloud adoption. Perimeter and endpoint security solutions provide minimal protection against new, emerging, and largely unknown risks. Therefore, enterprises need to proactively invest in new controls like Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions and Cloud Access Security Brokers. Key findings include: • In the cloud zombies are real: 11% of all enterprise SaaS accounts are “zombies,” inactive assigned users that are at best eating up the cost of a license, and at worst increase the attack surface of the organization. • More admins, more problems: Every administrative account represents a real and present risk to the enterprise. In some SaaS applications Adallom recorded an average of 7 administrators out of every 100 users. • 80% of companies have at least one former employee whose SaaS application...
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...Date: March 22, 2015 To: Rachel De Angelo From: Jessica Harris Article Name and Citation: (1) Markoff, J. (2010, April 19). Cyber-attack on Google Said to Hit Password System. (2) Google, Citing Attack, Threatens to Exit China. The New York Times. ARTICLE SYNOPSIS In January of 2010 Google was the victim of a cyber-attack. The interloper was able to access and steal information from Google’s computer systems. The main item stolen was “a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the company’s Web services, including e-mail and business applications (Markoff, 2010).” The intruder was able to gain access to Google computer systems because an employee in China while using the Microsoft Messenger program opened an email sent by the interloper; the employee then clinked on a toxic link which gave the interloper access to the system. Since the theft of the intellectual property Google has since changed its policy towards China and made security changes to its computer systems. LEGAL ISSUE Since the attacks have been linked to two computers located in China the legal business issues raised in the article are a breach of contract between Google and the Chinese government. This move would further stress on the relationship between the United States and Chinese government. However both parties are willing to establish talks in which the contract between the two entities will be renegotiated and prevent a possible breakdown in international...
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...Searching for Internet Freedom in China_GALLEYED (Do Not Delete) 3/18/2013 9:19 PM SEARCHING FOR INTERNET FREEDOM IN CHINA: A CASE STUDY ON GOOGLE’S CHINA EXPERIENCE JYH-AN LEE,* CHING-YI LIU,** AND WEIPING LI*** ABSTRACT ........................................................................................ 406 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 406 I. THE NATURE OF THE INTERNET AND GOOGLE’S BUSINESS ............ 408 A. The Evolving Nature of the Internet................................. 408 B. The Study of Google and its China Experience................ 409 II. GOOGLE.CN AND CHINA’S INTERNET POLICY ............................... 412 A. The Story of Google.cn .................................................... 413 B. China’s Internet Policy in the Case of Google.cn............. 419 1. Technological Control of Search Engines .................. 419 2. Legal Control of Search Engines................................ 421 III. POLICY IMPLICATIONS FROM THE CASE OF GOOGLE.CN .............. 423 A. Global Network, Local Internet........................................ 424 B. Leveraging Commercial Power to Regulate the Internet . 426 IV. THE ACCOUNTABILITY CRISIS IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE ......... 428 A. The Problem of Internet Accountability ........................... 428 B. Solutions to the Digital-Accountability Problem ............. 431 CONCLUSION.......................................................................
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...Google in China Google was founded by two Stanford University graduate students in 1998. These students had a vision of creating a search engine on the web, which will organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible. Google became very popular between internet users, since it provided search results in order of calculated relevance rather than in order of advertising payments and did not allowed pop-up ads. Yahoo! became partners with Google on 2000, which helped the company become the world’s leading search engine. Also, search was offered in different languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its first foreign office was opened in Tokyo and by 2009 Google offered search options in 110 languages and had offices in dozens of countries. By August 2004, Google raised $1.6 billion on its initial public offering and on 2008 revenues hit $21.8 billion primarily from two advertising products AdWords and AdSense. AdWords bid in auctions for rights to keywords on specific geographical regions. On the other hand, AdSense delivered relevant keyword ads to a network of third-party publishers. In addition, Google offered a variety of other services such as Gmail, Picasa, Goggle Calendar, Blogger, Google Docs, Google Images, YouTube, Google News, Google Finance, Goggle Scholar, Goggle Maps, and Google Earth. Google originally served the Chinese market through it Chinese-language version, but it has to use Chinese Internet service providers. These providers filtered...
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...in space, google had recently confirmed that it was working on the project for science, this way they could do experiments that could be tried in space. The thing is about working on this type of large scale is that they would have to develop a material to be able to with stand the amount of material that would be place into the building of the space elevator. Currently this project has been placed on the back burner because of the material they would need. One of the things they would have to have is the material that would be stronger by 100 times than the current steel. The only material that is even close to what is needed is carbon nanotubes. The thing is about nanotubes is that we ca make it very well but we haven’t been able to make it in a high quality manner that is over a meter long and what is needed for the project is over hundred miles of the tubing. It is said that by 2025 the technology will be there to be able to create the material to be able to hold the structure for the space elevator, while google still is keeping this as part of their project, the outcome is quite a spectacular idea to bring. There are many thing to consider with this technology. The idea is that in the next five to ten years we will be able to have the technology to perfect the carbon nanotube and by the time they are to get the construction under way it will take another ten to fifteen years after that to be able to work on a structure like this. To support this idea google has to come...
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...many functions to an effective management, but the most important factors are planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. These factors can affect how a business is maintained. The organization we will be covering is Google. Globalization, technology, innovation, diversity and ethics play key roles in the corporation. Globalization Globalization means worldwide integration and development (dictionary.com). Internal factors of globalization are production, development, customer service and marketing. Over the past decade, Google has positioned itself so that their name, software, etc. appears on every laptop, tablet, phone, etc. across the world. Google has to make sure that internally it evaluates the capabilities of its employees. Sometimes it is necessary to move people around so that the right people are responsible for the right areas. Because they have done such a good job at this. They provide superior customer service in every part of the globe and their marketing strategies requirements of the people using their products and the laws that come along with doing business in another country. An example of a huge external factor that affected Google was an incident that happened in January of 2010. After a cyber-attack occurred, Google revealed to the world that any company who is eager to do business there is quite content to cover up the fact that the Chinese government uses the internet to spy on companies, and that the Chinese government has told them...
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...Google stops China censorship, Beijing condemns move (Update 3) 22 March 2010 cyberattacks it said originated from China. China reacted quickly to Google's move saying it was "totally wrong" for it to stop censorship and to blame Beijing for the cyberattacks that Google said targeted email accounts of Chinese human rights activists. "Google has violated its written promise it made when entering the Chinese market by stopping filtering its searching service," said the official in charge of the Internet bureau of the State Council Information Office. "We're uncompromisingly opposed to the politicization of commercial issues, and express our discontent and indignation to Google for its unreasonable accusations and conduct," the Chinese official said. The White House said it was "disappointed" Google could not reach a deal with Beijing and reiterated that US President Barack Obama is "committed to Internet freedom and... opposed to censorship." "The US-China relationship is mature enough to sustain differences," added National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer. Drummond, Google's top lawyer, said "figuring out how to make good on our promise to stop censoring search on Google.cn has been hard. "We very much hope that the Chinese government respects our decision, though we are well aware that it could at any time block access to our services." Google co-founder Sergey Brin told The New York Times that shifting the Chinese service to Hong Kong was not given a clear-cut stamp of...
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...2.6 Other Google brands 3 Portfolio analysis via matrices in the 21st century 3.1 Why portfolio analysis? 3.2 Portfolio analysis and Google 3.3 Companies like Google 4 Conclusion Reference List II 1 2 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 7 8 10 11 III I List of figures Figure 1: McKinsey / General Electric Matrix Figure 2: Google’s brands in a GE Matrix 2 7 II 1 Introduction According to the list FT Global 500 from the Financial Times, Google is worldwide on position 39 from the companies listed in the stock exchange (Financial Times, 2009). Google was founded in 1998 by the software engineers Larry Page and Sergei Brin. Nowadays, only 12 years later, it has grown to one of the greatest international companies which has a huge influence on the daily life in industrial nations. Furthermore with 66 billion US-Dollars Google is the most valuable brand in the world. They started with a search engine which has pushed the former competition like AltaVista out of business. Google Inc. had in 2008 a turnover of almost 22 billion US-Dollars and it is still growing (Google, 2010). At the beginning they had a positive press but nowadays there are more and more critical voices because of their high market share in the search engine sector of almost 90%. Critics say that Google has too much influence and it is possible that they manipulate data. Google has many current projects where people fear a lack of their own data protection (The Register, 2009; BBC, 2007a). But Google does not...
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...affected? On google agreeing to ensure its search content, Reporters without borders commented, “Google’s statement about respecting online privacy are the height of hypocrisy in view of its strategy in China.” However, Google’s Director of Research was of the view, “What’s important to users is access to information, we are giving them that, and we think that’s the most important.” Do you think Google was right in taking this step? Justify your answer. PPPPPPPPPPP Internet censorship Increasingly, Chinese and Tibetan citizens both inside and outside areas of Chinese Government control are seeking information through the internet and other forms of online media. The speed and bredth of information access which these mediums allow is a huge threat to the Chinese Government as they attempt to maintain propagandist views of 'sensitive issues' such as human rights, the Tinananmen Square massacre and Tibet. As such, the Chinese Government goes to great lengths to control the internet and to limit the amount of information its citizens are able to uncover. On 13 January 2010, Google announced that it would consider pulling out of China after it emerged that hackers had been attempting to access the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. Google instead decided to drop the web filters imposed on Google searches by the Chinese government, leading to content which had previously been censored suddenly being made available to web users in China. Google users in China...
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...An attack against a computer system or network is how PC Magazine defines a cyber-attack. A Cyber-attack can take many forms, for many reasons and can be executed on a small or large scale. Most cyber-attacks are criminal in nature. These cybercrimes are usually motivated by profit. Recent examples include the cyber-attacks on Visa/MasterCard and attacks on Google’s network by China. The cyber-attacks on Visa and MasterCard were part of “operation payback”, and were carried out by various loose nit groups that organized using social networking sites. “Operation payback” was retaliation against Visa and MasterCard for refusing to continue to do business with the website WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks posted leaked classified U.S. diplomatic communications on their website for the world to see. The United States felt this was a criminal act and pressured Visa and MasterCard to stop processing transactions for WikiLeaks. In response hackers launch “operation payback” which used distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to crash Visa and MasterCard Servers. Google recently exited the Chinese market. According to the New York Times, “Google linked its decision to sophisticated cyber-attacks on its computer systems that it suspected originated in China and that were aimed, at least in part, at the Gmail user accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The attacks were directed at some 34 companies or entities, most of them in Silicon Valley, California, according to people with knowledge of...
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...iPhone will win – the iPhone became a big advantage for any business man. In addition, the leisure culture starts changing. The ease of browsing internet content with the iPhone anywhere, accessing Facebook and reading emails was significant. Playing gaming at you free time with the iPhone became an addiction to everyone. Apple with great precision has read the map and introduces the first iPad on 2010 which became a game change in the portable PC industry. With a larger screen size, the iPad was the ultimate entertainment device at your leisure. Same as the iPhone, the iPad created superior customer experience and dominate the market on 2010-1. In parallel, Google Android OS (operating system) tablets developed by Samsung, Motorola and other vendors Tablets (Blackberry) introduced to the market late 2010. Though Google Android OS was inferior Vs. Apple at the beginning, its competitive advantage was the...
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...buy stock in the company and own a portion of it. Ads By Google Online Trading Plus500®: APPL, Ebay, HP Commodities, No Fees! www.Plus500.no Bilforsikring -Sjekk pris Nemi Bilforsikring testvinner i VG. Sjekk din pris på bilforsikring her neminordvest.no/bilforsikring UK Fixed Income Aberdeen Managed UK Fixed Income Assets. Learn More. Aberdeen-Asset.NO Going public can help a company raise significant capital if a lot of people want to buy its stock. It also means that the company has to publicly disclose details about its finances, like its earnings, that it previously kept private. WHO DECIDES THE VALUE OF AN IPO? An investment bank determines how much money the company can expect to make on the stock market based on a number of factors, from the health of the economy to how popular the company's product is expected to be in the future. The initial valuation is always a bit of a gamble, since the stock has never been traded publicly before, and analysts can't look at past behavior to figure out how it should be priced. Morgan Stanley is expected to spearhead Facebook's IPO filing, with Goldman Sachs playing a supporting role, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Facebook's IPO has been pegged at $5 billion. The company itself being valued between $75 billion and $100 billion, unnamed sources familiar with the deal told the Journal. The IPO sets a record among technology companies. Google...
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...* Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is one of the best-known and most admired companies refer to searching information on the Web around the world * Start with student project by two Stanford University graduates—Larry Page and Sergey Brin—in 1996, * Google became the most frequently used Web search engine on the Internet with 1 billion searches per day in 2009 * other innovative applications such as Gmail, Google Earth, Google Maps, and Picasa. * Google grew from 10 employees working in a garage in Palo Alto to 10,000 employees operating around the world by 2009. (Bauer T., 2009) * Over the past few years , Google has grown dramatically and is still developing in the global market. * Competitors and system innovations: * --Portals (Google vs Yahoo, MSN) * -- Planned Payment service ( Google vs EBay) * -- Supported software ( Google vs Microsoft ) In order to survive in this competitive global market, Google have to make Decisions: 1. Google resisted pop-up advertising, because the company felt that it was annoying to end-users. 2. Keeping their employees happy is also a value they take to heart. 3. Google encourages employee risk taking and innovation. 4. Decisions at Google are made in teams based on data. Google stripped the search page of all distractions and presented users with a blank page consisting only of a company logo and a search box. They insisted that all their advertisements would be clearly marked as “sponsored...
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...including this one: | 9 | Word Count: | 2339 | RMIT International University Vietnam Bachelor of Business Program Assignment Cover Page GOOGLE STRUGLING TO SURVIDE THE ETHICAL ISSUSES IN CHINA I. Introduction Google is the company who provide a wide range of services to both normal consumers and business. They are best known from their search engine while incorporating with other online technologies such as Gmail and Google chrome. While being one of the top company in the world, Google seem to be struggling when operating in China – the country with the largest number of internet user. Though Google is popular with their motto “Don’t be evil”, they were struggling to adapt with Chinese policy toward certain areas such as censorship and certain actions from the government toward Google prevented it from competing with Baidu –their local competitors. Consequently, Google officially leave china and redirect to Hong Kong in order to escape from the censorship of Chinese government in 2010. This report will analyze certain ethical issues occurred between Google.cn and the government of china. II. Ethics and its impact In order to coexist with society businesses require to satisfy the society’s increasing demand of ethically responsible business practices (Joyner and Payne, 2002). Google has always put ethics in high priority during their business and it seem that their firm kept their promises with their...
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...Google China – Ethical Issues The Business Environment March 07, 2011 Table of Contents Preface 3 Google 4 Background 4 Google’s Philosophy 4 Google China 5 Ethical Issues 6 Conclusion 9 Annexure 10 References 10 Chinese Business Culture 10 The Great Firewall of China 11 Events Timeline 12 Preface This paper focuses on the Ethical issues pertaining to Google’s position in China around 2006. Google has been criticized for supporting the Chinese government censor policy and aiding them by restricting the anti-government information within China. Google in its quest to gain market share entered the Chinese market adhering to the Chinese government censorship policies. Google’s approach at that point in time was certainly against its corporate values and mission, hence unethical. However events of 2010 have forced Google to revisit its position and are resulted in redirecting its search engine traffic to Hong Kong. The paper provides a brief background to the Google, Chinese business culture, censorship policies in China and Google’s approach to enter the Chinese market. Later sections of the paper look at the ethical and unethical practices of Google in line with its corporate value, mission and strategies. Google Background Since its inception in 1996, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering search in a single language it now offer dozens of products and services in many different languages. Starting from two computer science...
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