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Ransomware and Data
Protection
for Google Workspace

Ensure that you can access, control, and most importantly protect the
data you entrust to the cloud.

As companies increasingly move data into cloud-based applications, many IT teams think traditional best practices like data backup are unnecessary. After all, a SaaS application is always available, accessible from anywhere, and highly
redundant, so why is backup needed?

Google Workspace (also known as G-Suite) and other applications are susceptible to ransomware attacks. Most strains of ransomware target both Google and Microsoft productivity apps and documents whether they are stored locally or in Sharepoint/OneDrive/Google Drive.

Our team has partnered with Dropsuite, one of the leading cloud-to-cloud backup tools; offering an all-in-one backup, archiving, restore and export solution.

Ask Yourself

  • Are you prepared when ransomware hits your Google Drive?
  • Are you protected if someone deletes emails or files from your org?
  • Have employees deleted emails that you need to recover?

Point in Time Backups
Several daily snapshots are taken. Avoid data loss from ransomware by restoring entire accounts to a designated point in time before an attack occurred.

Item level restore
Retrieve data in the original format with file and label structure maintained in the backup.

Security and Compliance
Dropsuite backs up data in compliance with Service Organization Control (SSAE 16 and SOC2 ) reporting standards.

Protect your business today!

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Why have Backups?

Some of the most high-profile ransomware attacks that have occurred recently have been in cloud-hosted storage services. Encrypting your data and preventing you from accessing your data.

As one would expect, an active Google Workspace license is required to access data. Unfortunately, inactive or deactivated, user data is permanently deleted after the initial grace period, and there is no rollback option.

When a file is deleted from Google Drive, all data will be placed in the Recycle Bin where it is kept for 25 days. At that time it is automatically and permanently deleted, and there is no rollback option.

When restoring older files from a Google Drive backup, the restore is targeted at the same URL. This means a restore overwrites whatever data currently exists in the folder, and there is no rollback option.

Contacting Google Support for assistance with any data loss issue can be time-consuming, and still may not result in restored files.

What can be restored from a backup?

  • All emails, attachments, labels and folder structure.
  • Restore an entire label or entire mailbox
  • Find specific data, labels, or individual messages to recover
  • All files and folders with the structure intact.
  • Snapshot allows you to view a specific point in time and quickly recover user data.
  • Restore Contacts
  • Restore Calendars
  • Restore Tasks