How G Suite Protects your Organization’s Data

As an organization grows, it becomes harder for the IT team to manage and protect assets at a larger scale. Data breaches start getting common. Around 30% of breaches are by the employees themselves, due to the lack of internal controls. They may be doing that on purpose or they did not understand why they shouldn’t do certain things in a manner they are doing it.

Google gets everything under a roof. The Tech Leader has designed the security features of G Suite in a comprehensive yet simple manner, that you can just jump in and start using the app. Google helps the admins to enable users with good control  (Admin decides) over  G Suite but keeping an eye on each and every one.

Google looks into the matter from 3 different aspects.

• Prevention
• Detection
• Remediation

Google achieves these 3 with certain features in the security centre.

Prevention:

Helps you to prevent incidents before they become an issue.

Your information is compromised mainly through Phishing. G Suite offers a Preventive method for this via 2SV (2-Step Verification) and security keys. Google recommends all their customers to implement these features for all users or at least the Admin users, privileged users etc.

Gmail checks every email before you hit the send and before it’s been delivered. Refer to the image below on how Google is implementing the Prevention on Gmail.

Detection:

Detects everything you do in order to help you recover any data lost.

Security Dashboard is from where you can drill into individual activities to explore data and find actionable insights. Data Loss Prevention is another feature which prevents Data loss before it happens and it is available for both Gmail and Drive. 3rd Party Apps whitelisting helps an organization to ensure the users access the data only from those applications.

Remediation:

To diagnose, triage and resolve incidents.

Investigation Tool (EAP) comes into play here. It performs Advance queries over many different data sources, Pivot between different sources to see how data correlates and Bulk actions to remediate issues quickly when they are identified.

Note: Access to certain features depends on the G Suite plan you choose as well as your organizational policies. 

Please contact G Suite reseller Infiflex, If you choose to try the features with a trial period of 14 days.