Among the vendor booths at Black Hat was Google, with several representatives pushing pastel colored pens. Google has been bolstering its security of late. It acquired Postini for $635 million earlier in the month and before that Greenboarder Technologies. It even launched a security blog to add some transparency to its security related strategies. At Black Hat, Google stuck out like a sore thumb with its booth among more than a dozen security vendors. The company wasn’t necessarily there to show off it’s recent moves. And probably it wasn’t even there to show that it is serious about security. Instead, the representatives were networking with the 3,000 or so security pros and touting two new security jobs it plans to fill in the near future. However, the fact that it’s in hiring mode and making moves to lock down its Web-based applications, which security pros say are at an increased risk of being an easy target for attackers, shows that someone at the search engine giant is making security a priority. Do you think it can apply the same priority and transparency to its data privacy practices?

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