Google Search Appliance Data Security and Analysis

Opening access to the many information silos across your business creates a critical issue – security of your information and preventing unauthorised access. Security is dealt with in regards to both serving results to authorised users and integration of the Universal Search Appliance (GSA) into existing infrastructure. In both cases, the universal search appliance leverages your existing security/identity management systems to provide document-level security.

Content Source Security

Implementation of a universal search appliance requires configuration to integrate into your existing network infrastructure and security systems to enable crawling of data across multiple information silos.

Document-Level Security

Users must be restricted to information they are able to view. Search results are grouped into public and private information. If a user opts to search across private information, the Universal Search Appliance will prompt the user for their credentials and only display information they are permitted to ask.

On any scale of integration there must be analysis of the current security environment and user security policies. This ensures the universal search appliance can both access the required information and present results according to your security policies.

 

Unlimited Collections within your Search Index

If you want your customer support team to be able to search your knowledge base and simultaneously let your marketing team search through past presentations. If you want to run your public site search and your intranet search off of a single Google Search Appliance. You can use collections to create sections of your index for particular sets of users. Each collection will have a separate URL and can have a separate search interface.

 

Connect Direct to your Active Directory with Windows Integrated Authentication

When a Google Search Appliance user searches for and views secure content they must enter credentials at an authentication stage and a results authorization stage. The Google SAML Bridge for Windows enables the search appliance to use the user's Windows domain login credentials and removes the need for redundant logins.

Unlimted Front Ends - OneBox for Enterprise

Provide users with easy access to an infinite variety of information sources from inside or outside the company – right from the search box. Google OneBox for Enterprise provides access to up-to-the-minute information across virtually all enterprise applications and services -- including information stored in Cognos, Cisco, Employease, Netsuite, Oracle, Salesforce.com, and SAS systems. Learn more about this new approach to accessing business information.

Integrate with document security systems

The Google mini search appliance can crawl and serve search results for content protected by HTTP Basic and NTLM v1 and v2 security, as well as integration with LDAP systems. The new Google Mini search appliance can release enables both authentication and authorization at serve time; so you can make sure individual users see only the results they are approved to access.

Contact Devnet to see how security will be addressed with implementation of a search appliance into your organisation.