With the passage of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) in 1996, companies handling a patient’s medical information needed to protect it. If your company handles medical information, you must protect it from hackers or others who do not need to see it. HIPAA spells out the type of information that needs protecting. Additionally,… (more) The Complete Guide to HIPAA Training Requirements
If your business or organization must follow HIPAA rules for guarding the privacy of patients, you know how challenging this process can be. Unless all employees are on board with the steps they must take to protect the medical-related information that’s part of HIPAA, the system breaks down. You run the risk of a security… (more) The Ultimate Manual for HIPAA Compliance Training For Employees
A successful security awareness training program offers numerous benefits for your employees. Such a program can help reduce cyber threats, prevent downtime, improve your reputation, and make employees aware of their role in protecting critical business assets. We outline everything you need to know about implementing a successful security awareness training program to reap these… (more) The Ultimate Manual for Security Awareness Training for Employees
If you or another employee leaves a project or job, you may need to transfer ownership of your company files to someone else in the company. This is vital for data security practices and compliance with offboarding processes and can occur in a few different ways that admins or employees can manage. We’ll break down… (more) How To Transfer Ownership In Google Workspace
For Google Workspace users, document retention policies are key for keeping sensitive information secure and compliant. However, they usually must be implemented using an extra, paid service called Google Vault. We’ll go over these policies and how to create them using Google Vault. In this article, we’ll explore: Why document retention policies matter How to… (more) The Complete Guide To Document Retention In Google Workspace
Creating and managing access to folders in Google shared drives can be confusing for admins and employees alike. There are a lot of nuances to how they work—get it wrong, and suddenly confidential information sitting inside a folder within a shared drive could be shared with people who shouldn’t have access. That’s why it’s incredibly… (more) How To Secure Shared Drive Folders In Google Workspace
In Google Workspace, labels are metadata that admins can define to help their employees better find and organize documents. They can also be used by admins to apply certain policies in Drive, as well as classify content and find files more quickly. Managing labels is a newer feature that was recently introduced to Google Workspace,… (more) How To Manage Labels In Google Workspace
Employees are often granted access to sensitive company data, documents, and software. When an employee leaves an organization, offboarding processes serve as a way to protect the organization from intentional or accidental data breaches which can cost companies millions in revenue and reputational damages. However, the coronavirus pandemic resulted in a rapid switch to a… (more) The State of Offboarding Security For Remote Work
Our customer success manager recently said, “We’re getting a lot of questions about shared drives in Google Workspace.” We’re used to these types of questions. Many admins aren’t sure what privileges they have or how they can control them in their Admin console. They want to know how they can confidently secure their shared drives,… (more) Top Google Admin Privileges For Shared Drives
Shared drives in Google Workspace can be confusing. What are the security risks? Who has access to your company’s shared drive? What permissions do they have, and how can you change these permissions to keep your company’s data safe? We’ll go over the security risks of using shared drives and give you a complete guide… (more) The Complete Guide To Shared Drive Access Levels In Google Workspace