Shachar On the Internet - size is not an indication of threat surface. Ability to provision and maintain is more important.
You have to engineer your solution to your needs. For us - the combination of Google Apps, slicehost (for smaller projects) / rackspace (for big projects) rocks. Google Apps Mail and Calendar are amazing applications especially if you have colleagues in 5 or 6 time zones and people with iphones and blackberries like we do I can't believe that there are people on Linux-IL who seriously consider Squirrel Mail a competitor. d On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz>wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > > 2009/8/18 Danny Lieberman <dan...@software.co.il> <dan...@software.co.il>: > > > d) We deploy security countermeasures to protect assets: > 0) We don't use Google docs, Never. > 1) None of our really sensitive assets are on Google Apps and that includes > Calendar and Mail > > > So what's left from your use of Google? > > BTW - do you (the plural "you" to the entire list) consider mail > hosting by other companies besides Google as more secure? > > > In most aspects, yes. > > First, another provider will likely be a smaller target (security by > anonymity). > Second, another provider are not cross linking your emails with other > things they know about you. Granted, that's mostly because they don't have > that other info, but whatever the reason - it works. > > As for traditional security - Google's extra size is a mixed blessing. I > wouldn't work with someone small using a tailor made solution, but someone > using a standard solution is likely, in the long run, to provide comparable > security level to those Google provide (theoretical more chance of being > vulnerable is offset by less chance of being exploited). > > Shachar > > -- > Shachar Shemesh > Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.http://www.lingnu.com > > -- Danny Lieberman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your data: http://www.software.co.il Twitter: http://twitter.com/onlyjazz Skype: dannyl50 Warsaw:+48-79-609-5964 Israel: +972 8 9701485 Mobile: +972 - 54 447 1114
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