Assessing Your Google Apps Security Threats
The power of Google Apps comes from the variety and scope of its collaboration features. Unfortunately, the same tools we use to share and to work more efficiently can be used against us. When users set permissions, they may accidentally (or intentionally) over-share, resulting in data leaks, disclosures, policy breaches, and regulatory violations.
With the easy to select and connect 3rd party mobile and web apps to your Google accounts in just a few click, employees can easily and unintentionally grant access to non-trustworthy apps.
How do you protect your users from threats they do not know exist?
Assessing and managing information security within Google Apps warrants a multi-faceted approach.
- Education. Make sure employees understand your organization’s privacy and security policies, and any regulations and laws you must follow.
- Education. Make sure your users understand the basics of how permissions work within Google Drive and Sites, and how to use settings to comply with policies.
- Education. Make sure employees know that 3rd party apps can be dangerous and cause problems.
Beyond Education, many organizations look to deploy data protection and security solutions that support policies, that monitor the Google Apps environment for risks and violations, and that can respond and remediate potential data sharing violations.
Before you invest, however, understand your risk. By reviewing Drive content and permissions and analyzing the inventory of 3rd party apps accessing your Google Apps domain, you can best assess if and when additional security and administrative tools are warranted. While this can be time-consuming, tools and services exist that can automate the process of gathering and analyzing Google Apps security threat information.
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Through September 30, 2014, Cumulus Global is partnering with CloudLock, the Google Apps collaboration security company, to offer a comprehensive Google Apps Security Health Check, which will analyze both Drive content and the risk from 3rd party mobile and web apps. Normally a service costing $1,000 to $5,000, we are offering the assessment for $300 or less.
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