{"id":119,"date":"2014-01-13T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/?p=119"},"modified":"2014-02-09T22:09:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T22:09:41","slug":"reduced-security-control-to-push-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sustainable-everyday-project.net\/innovation-futures\/2014\/01\/13\/reduced-security-control-to-push-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduced Security Control to Push Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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source: Daily Google logo from 9.11.2009<\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/strong>:\u00a0In a keynote Google\u2019s former CIO Douglas Merrill describes Google\u2019s approach concerning internal innovation culture as offering employees as much freedom as possible in their working\/innovation processes, e.g, by letting them choose any operation system, any location and any software they want to use. This increases the company\u2019s rate of return. Any other way would just stifle their productivity in innovation. This has an effect on Google\u2019s security policies: Google tries to close the upcoming security-gap in its own infrastructure e.g. by securing their servers rather than opting for the traditional solution, which would be to secure each device, which is used by an employee (and thereby restricting the devices, which can be used: software, computer, browser, etc.).<\/p>\n

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Driver\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Technological<\/p>\n

The technological approach by Google was prompted \u201cCloud Computing\u201d: common business applications online become accessible from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on servers.<\/p>\n

Economic \/ Industrial<\/p>\n

Innovation cycles are speeding up. This forces companies to think about ways to increase the productivity of their employees.<\/p>\n

Google was therefore looking for ways to increase innovative freedom for employees without harming IT-security, assuming that increasing freedom to innovate also increases a company returns.<\/p>\n

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Obstacle\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Social<\/p>\n

Especially according to cloud computing, acceptance is still very low beyond the ICT sector.<\/p>\n

Technological<\/p>\n

It is not yet clear, if protecting own infrastructure is sufficient to close all security-gaps, e.g. encoding internal communication by allowing the use of blogs, messengers etc.<\/p>\n

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Indication<\/strong><\/p>\n

Change in current innovation patterns<\/p>\n

This could be a weak signal that the traditional conflicts between security issues and an open innovation culture are coming to a head.<\/p>\n

Therefore companies are looking for new ways to harmonise the two aspects.<\/p>\n

This weak signal could also lead to new security innovations.<\/p>\n

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Sector specifics \/ cultural specifics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevant to all sectors that work with ICT applications.<\/p>\n

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Source<\/strong><\/p>\n

Internet<\/p>\n

www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/editors\/23916\/<\/a><\/p>\n

www.informationweek.com\/cloud-computing\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/survey_fear_slo.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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