G Suite Security: Is Your G Suite for Business Data Safe?

Marketing Team Cloud Security Expert - CloudCodes Software
  • May 12th, 2021

One of the biggest letdowns about making a transition to cloud computing definitely is about “SECURITY,” which is mandatory at the same time! And there certainly are some pretty good reasons for this pitfall. With the incidences of cybercrime, as well as data breaches, becoming the order of the day, IT professionals dealing with data security are running under great pressure for perfection! As the 2nd cloud productivity applications provider, Google apps security is also being questioned. The good news is that various Admin tools, as well as other external third-party tools, are available that can ensure security and compliance to keep your data secure in the Google Cloud. In today’s blog we are going to learn about G Suite for business solutions & how CloudCodes for Business, a 3rd-party tool can help to secure your google cloud.

The Process to Check Google Apps Security Settings By G Suite for Business

Administrators (G Suite for Business) can make use of the Admin Console for checking as well as for managing G Suite security settings, activities, and behaviors, users’ account settings, and much more. Note that one must be set up as an administrator for the organization’s Google Cloud account in order to complete this particular audit.

  • First of all, you need to log in to your Google Admin Console. For this, navigate to https://admin.google.com/ and log in using your organization’s login credentials.
  • Now, open your Google Apps Security Report.
    1. From the Admin-Console’s homepage, first, go to the Reports
    2. And then go to Users
    3. And after that, click on Security
    4. Note: for viewing the Reports, it may be required to click on More Controls, which is there at the bottom of this homepage.
  • Now, determine what data you need. There may be many places where the security settings can go wrong. The Admin Console gives many different types of reports for gaining visibility into the account settings as well as to note the behavior for determining if the security settings require any adjustments. There is “General” report types for gaining insights into the activities like User Account Status, 2-Step Verification Enrollment & Enforcement, External Apps, the Admin Status, and Less Secure Apps Access, etc. Then there are also G Suite reports, which are available for Gmail as well as Google Drive to see the number of internal/external shares done by the user (s), no. of publicly available files, and much more.
  • After that, you need to customize your report.
    1. Use customization options available
  • Finally, you need to export the report. You can export the Google Sheets report data or can even download that to a CSV file.
    1. For this, click the Download icon in the report view
    2. After that, select the place where you want the data to be exported to

Third-Party Tool for G Suite Security

Many reasons accelerate the need to secure G Suite for Business data. Surely we cannot deny the fact that G Suite for Business is indeed an amazing tool to work with, but it also comes with its own share of challenges; the greatest being G Suite security; here enters – CloudCodes for Business, a third-party tool, which was earlier known as gCcontrol for G Suite Security. It is a CASB vendor, which targets to ensure G Suite security by building a securer cloud ecosystem around your organizational activities undertaken over the cloud.

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