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Honestly Google is one of the few companies I know of which really considers internal threats and has taken precautions to reduce the likelihood that internal b
by saalweachter 9y ago
Honestly Google is one of the few companies I know of which really considers internal threats and has taken precautions to reduce the likelihood that internal bad actors will have access, to reduce the scope of access to any bad actors that slip through, and to ensure that illegitimate accesses will be noticed, reducing the time a bad actor will have access.
- lisper 9y agoI believe you. But one still has to wonder who watches the watchmen.
- saalweachter 9y agoCrazy libertarian SREs. :-P
- JadeNB 9y ago> Crazy libertarian SREs. :-P A Google search didn't immediately clarify. What is 'SRE'? The most plausible de-abbreviation I could find was "site reliability engineer".
- joshuamorton 9y agoThat'd be the right abbreviation.
- saalweachter 9y agoSite-reliability engineers is the correct de-abbreviation. While data at Google is tightly protected, everything else at Google is fairly transparent. In particular, you can see who is using what resources. SREs, among other things, monitor and manage this resource usage. Large, abnormal usages ("Why is someone copying all this data off-site?") will be noticed, and some of the people who will notice won't take "because the NSA told us to" as an acceptable answer.
- klodolph 9y agoSee the SRE book: https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html