Ben Fried, CIO of Google, is perhaps right

Forbes magazine bitterly commented on Google CIO's comment on the usage of third party services. It has written with reference to an interview by Ben Fried, CIO, Google to AllThingsD in which he talks about the risks to an organization like Google of using third party cloud products. Fried had certainly made a conflicting comment since the company itself promotes the usage of third party apps and cloud applications through its platform.

But The Data Driver would disagree with Forbes on the issue. We don't believe that Google has shot in the foot. If Fried's view is taken into serious consideration, he is perhaps true. The reason of course is the world's dependency on Google about their data. Using third party cloud services such as Dropbox for Google can certainly be risky. It might hold the entire world on ransom. Therefore, Google has its own concerns regarding the security of data on the cloud.

In addition, it points out at the security issues yet to be addressed with regard to third party applications and cloud applications. As a CIO, Ben is absolutely right when he points at a few concerns about the security in the context of third party applications.