The G Suite alert center provides with security alerts

Oct 10, 2018 19:02 GMT  ·  By

Google has made the alert center generally available for all G Suite admins, providing them with security-related notifications, alerts, and actions designed to make it simpler to protect their organizations from security threats via the Google Admin console.

Until today, the G Suite alert center was available only to admins enrolled in the beta program, and it issues notifications related to security threats, monitoring, and critical system alerts.

The alert center gives G Suite admins a unified view of critical security notifications, encompassing Gmail phishing and malware, account warnings, and device management.

According to Google's announcement, the account warning alerts are designed to alert admins of a variety of incidents, from suspended accounts because of suspicious activities to alerts about government-backed attacks.

Furthermore, Gmail phishing and malware alerts use machine learning to automatically detect multiple threat signatures and discover malware threats in real-time, the alert center using the collected info to display all potential phishing events.

The alert center enables admins to evaluate their organization's exposure to various security concerns

The G Suite alert center will also alert admins about device management notifications, covering information related to jailbroken iOS devices and rooted Androids, as well as any other device management warnings regarding suspicious device activity.

Admins will also be notified about alerts about Google operations, with detailed info about privacy and security problems related to their organizations' G Suite services.

To help G Suite admins act appropriately to every threat alert, Google also provides dedicated knowledge articles that can be accessed from every notification's detail page in the Google Admin console.

"In addition, G Suite Enterprise edition domains can use the G Suite security center for integrated remediation of issues surfaced by alerts," also says the Google.

"From every alert in the alert center, admins at G Suite Enterprise domains will have a dedicated link that will trigger a pre-configured query in the investigation tool. This helps these admins go from detection to remediation with just a few clicks.

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