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2.5 Data residency
Google’s globally distributed data centers³² reduce latency for multinational organizations and protect their data
with geo redundancy. Some organizations, however, have requirements around where their data is stored, and we’re
committed to meeting their needs.
Data regions³³ for G Suite provides control over the geographical location for storage of email messages,
documents, and other G Suite content. Customers can choose between the United States, Europe or global
this support page for more information on
this feature.
2.6 Incident detection & response
With multiple security and privacy controls in place, organizations need a centralized location where they can
prevent, detect, and remediate threats. The G Suite security center provides advanced security information and
analytics, and added visibility and control into security issues affecting your domain. It brings together security
analytics, actionable insights and best practice recommendations from Google to empower you to protect your
organization, data and users.
As an administrator, you can use the security dashboard to see an overview of different security center reports.
The security health page provides visibility into your Admin console settings to help you better understand and
manage security risks. Furthermore, you can use the security investigation tool to identify, triage, and take action
on security and privacy issues in your domain. Administrators can automate actions in the investigation tool by
creating activity rules
In addition, the alert center for G Suite provides all G Suite customers with alerts and actionable security insights
about activity in your domain to help protect your organization from the latest security threats including phishing,
malware, suspicious account, and suspicious device activity. You can also use the alert center API to export alerts
into your existing ticketing or SIEM platforms.
availability of customer data. You can learn more about how Google detects and manages our own incidents in our
Data incident response process whitepaper.
³² Page 9, Discover our data center locations
³³ Page 9, Data regions
Page 9, Refer to this guidance for a list of
data and services covered by Data Regions.
Page 9, Choose a geographic location for
your data
Suite Enterprise edition.
You must be an administrator with a G Suite Enterprise, G
Suite Enterprise for Education, Drive Enterprise, or Cloud Identity
Premium Edition license to access the security center. With Drive
Enterprise or Cloud Identity Premium Edition, you receive a subset
of security center reports on the security dashboard.
Page 9, About the security dashboard
Page 9, Get started with the security health page
Page 9, About the security investigation tool
Page 9, Create activity rules
with the investigation tool
Page 9, Alert Centre
Page 9, Programmatically
manage G Suite alerts.
Page 9, Data incident
response process