As a G Suite admin, you have important responsibilities. First and foremost, you have to make your company’s data secure. G Suite is a collection of Google cloud computing apps and tools to help you. In this 7-step guide, we will show you how to admin Google G Suite in a secure and effective way.

G Suite is a perfect collaboration tool. Admins agree with that. End users agree with that. We all agree with that.

But when it comes to data threats, no one is untouchable. The risks are especially true for cloud services where everything is connected. One wrong link can ruin a whole chain of files an entire department relies on. Our clients face security risks every day, but they know how to prevent them.

So, you need to migrate data. Trivial, but still a tricky task. Even small blunders in the process may result in massive losses and leaks of important data. And given that you may need to migrate data quite often, you need to adjust this process and eliminate all possible risks.

A survey, conducted by Intermedia, found that 89% of ex-employees retained access to corporate apps containing sensitive information, including G Suite after they leave the company. What is even more disturbing, 49% of them admitted to logging into a corporate account after their employment contract ended.

If you are here, you probably already experienced the bitterness of important data loss. Maybe you deleted it by accident, or someone who shared access to Google Drive with you deleted initial data. Or maybe, your business became a victim of some malicious actions, which resulted in major data loss. Or maybe, you’re just cautious and working ahead of the curve.

One of the most common use cases seen for your disaster recovery and data protection solution is recovering a deleted file or number of files.  

Accidental and intentional file deletion is extremely common among corporate employees. You may have G Suite users who delete a file or number of files only to realize it was not the file or files they assumed.  

Another common scenario is you have your coworkers who perform a Save operation instead of a Save As operation, overwriting valuable data.  As you move your organization to the public cloud storage such as G Suite, what mechanisms are in place to help you recover files that have been deleted or overwritten?  

Let’s take a look at how you can recover deleted files from Google Drive to see how this can be done.

While Google does not provide native, seamless backups within the Gmail service itself, there is a mechanism that can be used to export an offline copy of your Gmail data to a local file. Gmail allows exporting all Google data via the Download your data function found in the Google account settings. In the context of Gmail, the “Download your data” function downloads the file in the MBOX format. There is no direct way through the Google account settings to import MBOX to Gmail, however, there is a way around.

Google Drive Storage is arguably one of, if not the most popular cloud storage service platforms. It contains a wealth of features and functionality that allows it to be used as more than simply storage, but a tool to enhance productivity. Using Google Drive tools effectively and efficiently allows getting the most out of this very popular platform for storage, editing, and collaboration. Google Drive has a lot of “under the cover” features that provide extremely powerful tools and solutions for getting the most out of data that you store in the Google Drive cloud. Let’s take a look at 10 Best Google Drive hacks to make your life much easier.

Cloud storage has revolutionized the way data can be accessed, edited, shared, and otherwise worked with. There are a wide range of options for individuals and organizations alike for accessing data in the cloud. Google Drive is arguable one of the top public cloud options for storing and accessing data in the public cloud provides a number of really great features, functionality, and benefits to tenants. With public cloud services and especially with data housed there, security is one of the top concerns for cloud today.

With news headlines of data leak and data breaches happening frequently, data security is a top priority. While public cloud vendors have greatly improved security features and offerings, it is often up to the individuals and organizations to determine how these security features are implemented and ultimately, who has access to data. Let’s take a look at how to secure Google Drive to see some very practical steps that can be taken to drastically improve the security of Google Drive.

Despite all the technological solutions to any problem in today’s world, there is always the human-factor to consider. The best technology cannot account for the actions and specifically the mistakes that humans can make which may totally undermine the solution that technology provides. This is especially true in the world of security. The best security defenses can be totally compromised by a single individual making the wrong decision, either accidentally or knowingly.

When considering a fully featured and well thought out security plan, the human factor is an extremely important part of the equation, and arguably just as important as the technology component of the solution. In this article, we will take a look at cyber security awareness across an SMB organization.