Businesses need policies re desktop search tools: "Two analysts issued independent warnings today suggesting Google's Desktop Search tool -- released in October -- poses security risks for the enterprise. "
Dana Hendrickson, an analyst at VPN Central warns "The most significant threat is when desktop search is used while connected to a virtual private network (VPN)"
Meta Group analyst "Hickernell told internetnews.com that the desktop will be the next battlefront in the search engine wars -- and a new front in the battle for corporate security. Google Desktop Search lets users search documents, spreadsheets, e-mail, instant messages and Web pages that have been visited by that PC. To enable this, it creates cached versions of Web content -- which could include sensitive corporate information stored on servers and accessed via a Web interface.
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