SenditCertified.com, a secure communications and collaboration platform, today issued the following statement regarding the Google-China standoff, warning corporate IT leaders to tighten their Internet security and privacy protocols. According to Stephen Errico, CTO of SenditCertified, enterprises are more vulnerable today to acts of cyberterrorism and malicious hacking than ever before.

“Google operates on a cloud computing and SaaS model, which is receiving enterprise attention for purported cost-effectiveness and user ease, but IT must heed the warnings revealed by the Google China incident. The dual issues of security and privacy have not been addressed thoroughly, although we applaud Google for doing something few companies have done: publicly admit a data breach. Any U.S. business that considers its intellectual property as its chief asset should be watching this situation closely and be gravely concerned. This is a wake-up call to recognize that enterprise data is subject to attack, and no data is private — unless a stringent cybersecurity protocol is deployed enterprise by enterprise, file by file, and e-mail by e-mail. As this Google confrontation illustrates, the most-pressing security concerns include hacking, illegal monitoring and network attacks. These can be conducted by anyone, including foreign governments, malicious hackers or malcontent former employees. Beyond loss of private IP, these security issues can erode customer trust, create a public relations debacle, and violate Governance, Risk and Compliance protocols. The only solution is to deploy a fully certified communication platform for secure message and file exchange.”