Official Google Cloud Blog: December 2007

Advanced Search Reporting Launched on Google Enterprise labs

Friday, December 21, 2007

Posted by Cyrus Mistry, Enterprise Product Manager

Google Enterprise Labsdownload this feature

Google Maps and Public Safety

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Posted by Dan Israel, Google Enterprise, Government ProductsCrimeReports.com Google MapsPublic Enginesthe full case study.

Access from anywhere

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager, from my mobile phoneGoogle Sync for mobileGoogle Apps mobile access overview

1 Billion Messages Not Served

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Posted by Adam Swidler, Product Marketing Manager, PostiniNucleus research

In Europe, spam volume was also up in 2007 and the percentage of email that is spam increased from 70% to 90% as shown below:

Virus attacks in 2007 were also at record levels and showed similar techniques to what we observed for spam email. In January 2007, the high profile "Storm" botnet got its start with an email that was spammed out with an executable file attached. In April and May, we saw virus emails with password protected executables attached and the password contained in the body of the email. In the late summer, we saw a huge spike of Storm virus attacks that used a blended threat - an email message with a URL that took the user to an infected website that then downloaded the Storm malware to the PC. The linkage between spam and viruses continued in 2007, with messages being spammed out from botnets with virus attacks intended to add more computers to the botnet. The chart below shows the Storm virus activity for 2007:

For 2008, this game of chess will continue, and the stakes may become even higher. While the number of threats may not increase, the complexity will. Businesses will be challenged to identify more types of malicious content and protect sensitive information against new methods of social engineering. So what does the forecast for next year looks like? Here are some of the trends we expect to see coming to a business near you in 2008:

Spam volume will stabilize and could actually decrease in 2008 as spam attacks become more targeted and less of a pure volume game. As more and more spam content will be contained in attachments, we do expect that the overall size of spam will continue to increase.

Virus attacks will continue to blend with spam and will focus more on identity theft. They will utilize increasingly sophisticated social engineering techniques that will be related to specific current events such as the Olympics, the Super Bowl, natural disasters etc. Virus attacks will become more targeted toward executives at specific companies and will appear to come from legitimate business agencies. Their goal will increasingly be to steal corporate and government data. We expect to see several of these types of attacks, leading to data breaches from commercial enterprises and government agencies. This may force some companies to modify their email practices, such as financial institutions not including any links in their email communications to customers.

More businesses and organizations will implement specific policies that address outbound content in email and will deploy systems to monitor and enforce those policies to prevent sensitive or confidential data leaks.

The growing need for managing consumer data privacy and retention policies globally will drive growth of encryption and archiving and hosted solutions will play a major role in reducing the cost and complexity.

Identity theft attacks will increasingly be launched through web sites, especially those that enable user created content such as social networking sites, blogs and auction sites.

If you’d like to know more about Postini’s spam and virus trends, you can read our weekly summaries on the Postini Community Forum in the Threat Advisory board.

GSA-to-GSA OneBox Launched on Google Enterprise Labs

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Posted by Cyrus Mistry, Enterprise Product ManagerNow, in just a few simple steps, you can create a OneBox that will call out to another Mini or GSA and bring back results in fractions of a second! For example:

Owners of a Google Mini or Google Search Appliance can visit Google Enterprise Labs to download this feature today!

How Monarch Airlines uses Custom Search Business Edition

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Posted by Ryan Pollock, Product Marketingcase study about how Monarch Airlines set up Google Custom Search Business Editionwww.flymonarch.comGoogle Analyticslearn more about CSBE

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