Traditional security mechanisms in today’s hybrid network configurations are simply no longer effective as a means to secure communications and data for organizations. Today’s end user’s no longer fit the traditional work force coming from behind the same firewall, IP subnet, and crossing through the same firewall to get to the Internet/public cloud environments. Today’s highly mobile workforce make use of a variety of devices including a mix of BYOD devices as well as corporate issued devices. This creates the challenge of being able to secure data from these various endpoints as well as to apply various organizational policies so as to create a homogenous security posture across the board for various devices.

The single most valuable technical possession of businesses today is their data. Data is crucial to most business-critical operations that happen for most organizations and it is at the heart of most services and processes that are involved with normal everyday activities. Protecting your data is like protecting your livelihood if you are a business. In fact, the results of losing data for any reason can lead to serious adverse effects for businesses.

Cybersecurity has long been mistakenly viewed as an information technology problem that was only the concern of skilled IT staff. The reality is that cybersecurity should be considered as part of core business concerns, strategy, and planning. This should include the attention of top level management. CEOs should be very concerned about cybersecurity in their organizations. Never before have businesses had more to lose when it comes to a cybersecurity breach.

Organizations today must protect business-critical systems and data. It is required to maintain business continuity and SLAs. One of the tremendous threats to business-critical data today is ransomware. Ransomware attempts to extort money from businesses and individuals by holding data for ransom. This malicious attack method has been very successful over the past few years with victims ranging from individual home users all the way up to major corporations. Recently, just a few days ago at the time of this writing, a ransomware attack resulted in the ransom of data at two ship ports – the Port of San Diego and the Port of Barcelona.

Google Vault is a great solution to archive some of your G Suite (Google Apps) data, but it doesn’t perform backup. You can’t use it as an automated backup and recovery solution daily, so it doesn’t protect you against data loss.

Migrating from On Premise to Microsoft Office 365

Businesses moving to the public cloud today look for powerful solutions that allow them to be more mobile, agile, and technology progressive than keeping infrastructure only in on-premise datacenters. There are certainly many options available to organizations today. Organizations comparing different public cloud vendors have to consider and weigh out the services offered as well as the cost for those services as one cloud provider may align more closely to the business needs and objectives than another cloud provider.

In this Ultimate G Suite Security Guide we will introduce you the powerful tools and G Suite Security best practices, that Spinbackup provides for G Suite administrators to able to meet best practices when it comes to securing the organization against data leak and potential disaster.

What is Google Team Drives?

Google Team Drives is a revolutionary user-centric enterprise storage management system designed with enterprise team collaboration patterns in mind. Digital technologies are continuously changing the way people work today. Innovation is in Google’s DNA, and by being focused on core business processes, the company has put over a thousand hours of the user experience research engineers into this. Imagine that there are nearly 800 million monthly active users of Drive with trillions of files stored on Google Drive, representing enterprises’ knowledge.

When employees leave G Suite and a company, there are normally certain procedures and policies that companies institute to take care of access to various business critical resources the employees may have had access to. This would include file shares, email access, VPN access, company devices, and other items.

As a G Suite domain administrator, have you ever thought how often password cracking attempts are made on your account at Google? Are you even aware if an unauthorized attempt to access your account has taken place?

The Google admin console is a very useful feature of G Suite that can be put to good use by  G Suite administrators in businesses, schools, and other organizations. From the admin console it is possible to manage several administrative tasks, however the power it gives also means that it can be very dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands.

Have you ever thought what happens with users and data if a cyber-criminal can somehow access your G Suite admin account?