There's no doubt that cloud office platforms offer gains in productivity and easier collaboration, but they also present challenges for information security teams who need to limit content sharing.
For organizations that must comply with industry regulations like HIPAA this can lead to significant legal risk which, until now, was extremely difficult to mitigate.
With the launch of BetterCloud Enterprise for Google Apps they now have a real-time auditing, compliance, and data loss prevention (DLP) solution for the popular cloud service. It offers Drive Compliance to allow administrators to continuously audit the contents of their organization's entire Google Drive in real-time. Using custom regular expressions, they can scan for social security numbers, payment information, or any other type of number or phrase, in an effort to certify compliance with industry regulations.
"At many organizations, millions of documents are created, edited, deleted, and shared daily, with little oversight," says David Politis, BetterCloud’s CEO. "An enterprise IT or information security team’s responsibility to meet privacy and compliance regulations requires a tool like Drive Compliance. BetterCloud Enterprise for Google Apps is the only product that makes real-time DLP available to all Google Apps customers, and the only solution that combines DLP functionality with the rest of the toolset that enterprises need when deploying Google Apps across their organization".
BetterCloud uses new APIs made available by Google to allow it to connect securely with data at its source, providing maximum control with minimal setup and no impact on network performance. This allows it to alert admins to security risks and policy violations through a dashboard, prompting administrators to take action. They can notify the document owner, correct the violation, or automate future occurrences by building context aware compliance policies.
BetterCloud Enterprise for Google Apps is available to try for free for 30 days and costs $2 per user per month following the trial period.
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