Are you looking for information about DLP (“Data Loss Prevention/Protection“)?
Let’s start with the DLP Toolkit.

“Your kit includes five research reports, an interactive assessment tool, and a library of webcasts, providing direct insights into how your peers are overcoming security challenges on their way to success. Discover the strategies and initiatives that you can implement today to achieve Best-in-Class performance.”

In 2007, Google acquired Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions. It looks that Google introduced some nice features based on Postini technologies to prevent leakage of sensitive data.

Google Apps Premier is a full set of online collaboration tools (email, calendar, IM access and office applications) offered to organizations. But lot of them are still reluctant to “move into the cloud” (for excellent reasons that I fully understand).

Like in Gmail Premier, Google introduced some features in Apps to increase the overall security:

• Custom outbound mail filtering tools to prevent sensitive information from being distributed.
• Custom information sharing rules to determine how broadly employees are allowed to share with Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Sites.
• Custom password length requirements and visual strength indicators to help employees pick secure passwords.
• Enforced SSL connections with Google Apps to ensure secure HTTPS access.

This is off course very “light” and does not replace a true DLP solution but this is a nice initiative. The goal is clear: attract more companies to move to cloud computing.

Source: google.com.