It's proving tougher than anticipated to protect SSL VPNs from the voracious caching machine housed inside Google Desktop Search. The search tool, which is in beta, still manages to store and leave in the open certain SSL VPN data despite the best efforts of tools to curb the search engine's activity Customers are concerned that SSL VPN data might be cached and indexed by Google Desktop Search on a machine that is out of corporate control, such as an employee's home PC or one borrowed by an employee visiting a business associate. "It would be a horrible thing to think that there was a trail being left behind of what went on in what we regarded as secure SSL VPNs," says Jim Abshire, manager of operations and systems development at Herr Foods in Nottingham, Pa., which uses Netilla SSL VPN gear.
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