Strengthening Security in G-Suite

G Suite offers a number of advanced security features to its enterprise customers to help protect their data and emails from unauthorized access and malicious attacks. G-Suite also provides a number of advanced security standards that are levied following Google’s attempt to prioritize data security in all its operations and provide customers with the confidentiality and integrity of data to boost customer satisfaction.

Google and all of its enterprise services run on the same robust infrastructure that the technology leader has been able to build over years. Google’s product technology is secure by design which can be understood from the fact that the company’s data centers are completely protected by dedicated security professionals who provide top-notch data center security. Their physical security model includes safeguards like custom electronic access cards, perimeter fencing, and metal detectors. They also use cutting-edge tools like biometrics and laser-based intrusion detection to make physical breaches and attacks a "mission impossible" scenario for would-be attackers.

In terms of G Suite, it has now reduced the possibility of phishing attacks greatly by flagging emails from untrusted senders with encrypted attachments or embedded scripts by default. The application marks emails that spoof names and expands URLs to look for more malicious links. This aims to reduce spear-phishing and general phishing attacks as well as, by extension, lower the frequency of email compromises. There are also new additional security features for Team Drives in Google Drive and more controls for team members who use G Suite on mobile devices.

G Suite facilitates already helps administrators to manage information security such as encryption, sharing controls, mobile device management, and two-factor authentication.

In G-Suite, through the admin console, one can activate 2 step verification and single sign-on(SSO) that are extensive security features provided. In two-step verification for your user accounts, it provides an extra layer of security to your user's data by having them authenticate with a verification code as well as their password. This verification code is sent to the mobile number so the user of the account is doubly verified.

The single sign-on feature SSO in G Suite allows users to sign in with their user credentials only at one place and access all other applications without having to sign-in again. This helps users to attain productivity and reduce time-consuming login tasks. There are several benefits of using SSO feature in G-Suite. The benefits are:

• 100% cloud-based solution allows users to log in whether they are working remotely or on-site.

• Built on Google’s infrastructure ensures reliability and effectiveness from a trusted source.

• Branded, customized single sign-on page for your users, no matter where they are located or what device they are on.

• SAML 2.0 compliant.

• Adheres to standards-based SSO.

• Supports G Suite accounts that have multiple domains.

• Additional workflows can be incorporated within the SSO page. For example, some organizations wish to restrict all users, or a subset of users, from logging in from devices not on the network or outside of business hours.

Another important security measure in G Suite Enterprise version is Data Loss Prevention DLP for drive and email applications.

All companies want to keep their data secure. Email data loss prevention (DLP) lets you scan your organization's inbound and outbound email traffic for content, and set up policy-based actions when specified content is detected. Available actions include sending the message to quarantine, rejecting the message, or modifying the message.

DLP uses a set of predefined detectors to evaluate message content. These detectors are available in the Content compliance setting.

If you are a G Suite (Business) Unlimited customer, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Gmail will add another layer of protection to prevent sensitive information from being revealed to those who shouldn’t have it.

Another useful security measure in G Suite is Mobile Device Management (MDM).

MDM(Mobile Device Management) is a very remarkable & useful feature which Google provides to its G Suite customers. If you are a G Suite Administrator then Google’s Mobile Device Management (MDM) allows you to remotely manage mobile devices distributed across your organization using the G Suite Admin console. With this, you can seamlessly and effortlessly enforce device policies and security settings over mobile devices in your organization.

A few examples of MDM’s features are: camera restriction, remote wipe of devices or block accounts, deploying business apps to devices and more. As a G Suite administrator, you can manage Android and Apple iOS mobile devices. You can also manage Microsoft Windows Phones, smartphones, and tablets that use Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.

Lastly, G Suite provides a lot of advanced and developed security standards which guarantee enterprise customers a high level of cloud security unparalleled with other service providers.

Google designed the G Suite to meet stringent privacy and security standards based on industry best practices. In addition to strong contractual commitments regarding data ownership, data usage, security, transparency, and accountability, we give you the ways you need to help meet your compliance and reporting requirements. Google undergoes independent third-party audits to provide its customers independent verification of their security, privacy and compliance controls. They have quality standards of ISO, SOC, FedRAMP and PCI DSS enforced.

Apart from these they also have separate content compliance and regulatory compliance.