Google Apps Security Whitepaper
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Google Apps Education Edition provides secure collaboration and communication tools for schools through cloud-based services. It offers Gmail storage, Google Docs for real-time collaboration, Google Calendar, Google Sites for web publishing, and Google Video. These tools allow students and teachers to easily create, access, share and publish work from anywhere. Google ensures user data is securely stored in their global data centers and protected from threats. Additional Postini security services provide spam and virus filtering as well as email archiving and web filtering capabilities.
Google Apps Security Whitepaper
- 1. Google Apps Education Edition: communication, collaboration, and security in the cloud Collaboration and communication are more than life skills they are essential abilities that your students will need to succeed in their professional lives. Google offers a range of online tools and services that provide secure communication and collaboration capabilities to your school and let you choose the solutions that best meet your users unique needs. Since todays students live in a digital world, connecting with them, and engaging them in real learning, increasingly requires the creation of opportunities that align with their technology needs and expectations. Google can help you meet those requirements by providing tools which enable next-generation teaching and learning while keeping your students safe online. The following paragraphs explain how Google Apps and Googles additional email security capabilities can provide your school community with tools for communication and collaboration. Whether you want to improve your students technological skills, reduce IT costs, or ensure the security of school and student data, Google solutions work with you and easily integrate with your existing systems. Bringing your school into the cloud A cornerstone of Googles approach to IT is the hosted nature of our solutions. Hosted means that services are actually housed in Googles global network of secure, energy- efficient data centers. Hosted data stored in the cloud of web access is simply accessed through a browser for anytime, anywhere availability. This frees users from reliance on storage media such as flash drives, CDs, and the like and lets them work with their information from any computer, whether at home or at school. In the cloud computing offers many advantages to educational organizations. It frees them from on-site server and data management, ensures that users always have the latest documents and software, and reduces the requirements and costs associated with productivity tools. Google eases your schools entry to cloud computing with a free suite of integrated solutions spanning a full range of technology needs. Google Apps lets your teachers and students create, access, share, and publish writing projects, class schedules, web pages, and much more. Google Apps includes integrated tools for everyone on your campus: Gmail 7GB of storage per user, built-in chat, and IMAP capability frees students from concerns about email quotas or spam Google Docs real-time collaboration on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations lets students work together across campus or around the world Google Calendar shared calendar management puts everyone on campus on the same page when it comes to organizing schedules Google Sites easy-to-use web publishing tools let anyone on campus create and share information and media, without having to learn html or other programming languages Google Video secure, private video sharing for faculty and students (10GB free)
- 2. GOOGLE APPS EDUCATION EDITION With Google Apps, every authorized user in your school community has access to email, New! Try Google Message Security. document and spreadsheet creation, calendar, IM, and site-building capabilities, all Google Message Security is offered for easily accessed from campus Gmail accounts. This eliminates costly software updates, free to new or current eligible K-12 Google Apps accounts that opt-in to provides secure anytime, anywhere access to files, and allows easy communication Postini email security services by and collaboration with classmates and teachers, wherever and whenever they work. July, 2010. Protecting school data in the cloud To learn more about Googles solutions for schools, visit us at Cloud-based data is managed in data centers built to efficiently handle large amounts www.google.com/a/edu of information and to keep it secure. Working in the cloud, Google technology can quickly detect threats like spam, viruses, and malware and stop them before they spread. This lets organizations keep these threats far from their firewalls, enhancing the safety of users and information. Whats more, the cloud delivers scalable long-term storage on demand at a fraction of traditional costs. And, because data redundancy is fundamental to cloud computing, data in the cloud is more secure, organized, and findable than it would be on media such as hard drives or tape back-ups. In addition to Google Apps built-in email security, Google offers an additional range of protection through its Postini security and archiving services. Ensure safe communication for any email system Googles Postini email security services add protection to any email system. For settings where faculty and students use separate email systems, Postini offers proven spam and virus protection and provides the ability to manage acceptable email usage, based on unique school policies, and to protect against inappropriate use. Schools can limit the allowable size of email attachments, block specific attachment types, and automatically filter emails that contain chosen words, phrases, or content. Schools can also manage student communications in keeping with school policy, such as limiting messaging within a domain, or allowing access only to approved external domains. (Offered free to new or current eligible K-12 Google Apps accounts that opt-in to Postini email security services by July, 2010.) Archive email to protect your school and employees Schools are increasingly dependent on email to allow student and faculty communication. But as email use continues to grow, so does the need for compliance with regulations such as FRCP and open record laws. For many schools, archiving email messages is a strategic way to protect against communication disputes that could lead to the need for collecting past email messages e-discovery, as its known. Postini services enable email archiving and discovery, saving time and money while ensuring regulatory compliance. Googles scalable storage allows schools to store archived messages for as long as required, so theres no need for capacity planning. Protect web users from malware and restrict visits to inappropriate websites Add another layer of protection to school email networks by blocking website- based malware attacks and by enabling policy-based use of the web. Googles easily-customized tools let you manage safe internet access for your faculty and students, so that you can create, monitor, and enforce the right web policy for your school. IT administrators can easily create unique access policies for faculty and student users, safely managing URL categories, specific content, and file types. 息 Copyright 2009. Google is a trademark of Google Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. DS80-0906