final assignment

03/22/2020

Google Governance Policy

The governance policies in organizations are very crucial as much as the data is concerned. The security of the data is most cases determine the success of the company. Information governance has been on the go as much the threats of data breach exist. Governance policy covers the data privacy of both the clients and the organizations (Wallace & Webber, 2019). In the new organization, the CIGO has to check on the loopholes that exist in the organization as a first procedure to manage the governance of the organization.

In the famous Google organization, I take it as my choice to discuss the governance policy they deployed in the process of their growth. The Google Company put in place its governance policy for the people, and one of the significant governance policies was the information security of the clients and theirs. The Google data for themselves and their clients has been encrypted and that no party can access the data that it does not belong to them. Google does not allow third-parties to obtain information from other people. The use of the SSL has facilitated the encryption of the Google’s information (Wallace et al.2019). Furthermore, Google has initiated a two-step authentication technique when verifying the Google account. Unfortunately, on the other hand, the challenges that that Google has undergone in the overseeing of the government policy is the hacking of the Google account by the hackers. Severally many of the Google account passwords have been taken by hackers and the personal data stolen. During this process of hacking, Google made a lot of losses as some of the biggest companies that were affected demanded the compensation to their loss of the data.

Google has taken some preventative measures to protect its governance policy. Google has developed a Google cloud whereby the clients can back up their data for more safety. The data should be kept in the cloud compared to the removable disks where the data can be interfered with or stolen. The cloud back also ensures that the data can be accessed by the users whenever they are (Wallace et al.2019). Cloud also offers enough space for the data storage where it could be costly, keeping then in the removable disk due to lack of enough space.

References

Wallace, M., & Webber, L. J. (2019). It Governance 2020: Policies and Procedures. Aspen Publishers.