Utilizing Google Drive for Business

Offline Support: While Google Drive is a cloud service, it has an offline mode that let’s you view and edit files without a Wi-Fi connection. Business users will certainly value this tool for situations such as plane travel or for staying in an on-premises environment. For this functionality, you will need to be using the … Continued


Google Drive for SMB: Tips

Google Drive is an amazing tool to keep your organisation’s data easily accessible for all with the correct security restrictions, but the sharing documents part can be a little tricky to understand and manage going forward. Here are some tips on how to use Google Drive to your advantage: Avoid sharing users files & folders, … Continued


G Suite Security: Advanced Practices

Google recently announced at its cloud conference in Tokyo that it will begin offering “high-risk” G Suite accounts a version of its own, enhanced in-house security. Called the Advanced Protection Program, the set of security protocols is currently rolling out to G Suite users in a beta program. The program requires the use of physical … Continued


G Suite Anti-Phishing Practices

Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as email addresses, usernames, passwords, credit card details and others , often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy source. We see most of these delivered by email, many times by a trustworthy sender as their account has been compromised and the trap email sent to … Continued


G Suite Security Enhancement

A number of important G Suite security enhancements have been introduced this summer. Here’s the critical one: A new beta program will help admins assess their organization’s exposure to security issues and collaborate with colleagues to remediate them, through new admin collaboration and automation features. “This beta will also allow you to send notifications to … Continued


G Suite Data Recovery

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Imagine your worst nightmare has come true: all shields are down, and someone has managed to access your G Suite domain, removed or corrupted the most critical data. Let’s look at some built-in and third-party options that will help you perform a full-scale G Suite data recovery. All of the principal G Suite elements, including … Continued


Google TeamDrives Backup: Best Practices

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Companies, using G Suite as their primary collaboration tool frequently use Google TeamDrives and My Drive for file storage. Obviously, TeamDrives is truly the cooperation tool, offering the access and cooperation by multiple users, unlike My Drive. This distinction between who controls files on My Drive and Google TeamDrives has important implications for file management. … Continued


Protecting your Files on Team Drives I

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Organizations that use G Suite have two places to store files: My Drive and Team Drives. Users control the files on My Drive. They’re files the user created, stored, or allowed to be stored on My Drive. A Team Drive, in contrast, gives more people access: Every member with full access can add files to … Continued


Three Reasons for Google Drive Backup

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Google Drive backup is an absolutely necessary practice for any enterprise that utilizes Google Drive for its operational needs. But why exactly is the backup so necessary? Let’s find out! Data breaches As horrifying as it is to see the news on massive data breaches like those at Yahoo! and so many healthcare organizations and … Continued


UpSafe G Suite Backup in Education

St. Andrew’s is an independent, co-ed, all-boarding, Episcopal high school. We stand today as a community dedicated to tying education to a public purpose. We work to awaken our students to the responsibilities we share for our world. We seek engagement, inquiry and creativity to promote future generations of thoughtful, compassionate and intelligent leaders. St. … Continued