Cloud Computing: Google Drive Gains Security Upgrades, Certifications

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jaikumar Vijayan.

With the number of paying organizations using Google Drive crossing the one million mark earlier this year, Google appears to be ramping up its efforts to bolster the cloud storage service’s security features. The cloud services giant introduced new features on Sept. 21 that are intended to give organizations more visibility and control over business files stored and shared by workers in Google Drive.

The new features add retention and legal hold capabilities to the existing collection of e-discovery capabilities available with Google Drive. The new functions are similar to those available from Google for email and chat, and they’re designed to help businesses fulfill their legal obligations pertaining to data archiving and removal…

The data retention function allows organizations to set automatic expiration commands for stored content after a specified period of time, said Scott Johnston, director of product management at Google Drive in an interview with eWEEK. The legal hold feature ensures that specific content is stored and available for legal purposes even if employees delete the data from Drive, Johnston said…

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