Spin.ai Review

Scenario #1

Small businesses are attractive to hackers because they usually lack sophisticated security systems that are in use by larger organizations. They are also likely to have more digital assets than individual users and so the potential for profiting or gaining useful information is much higher. Many small businesses rely on manual backup practices such as nightly backups to external storage media. While this may protect against data loss due to hardware failure, if the backups are stored in the same physical location as the original data they are still vulnerable to loss by theft or physical damage such as fire or flood.

Regular, automated cloud-to-cloud backup such as the G Suite backup service provided by Spin.ai should be an absolute essential for a business of any size and is the quickest and most cost-effective to way of recovering corporate data in the event of a data loss or corruption. Cloud backup allows small businesses a cost-effective way of backing up data to a separate physical location and provides the benefits of sophisticated security systems that were previously only available to enterprise-level organizations that had the resources available in-house.

Scenario #2

It’s inevitable that staff will leave your organization but it’s also important to put time and thought into planning an exit strategy that can be implemented when an employee leaves, in order to protect company data. This is particularly important if there is an increased risk of data being stolen or malicious behavior from the employee, for example if they have been fired or if they are moving to one of your competitors.

A survey conducted by cloud provider, Intermedia, found that 89% of ex-employees retained access to corporate apps containing sensitive information, including G Suite, after leaving the company. Even more worrying, 49% admitted to logging into a corporate account after their employment contract ended.

Migrating data to another account allows the original account to be closed while still retaining access to potentially important company data. Once G Suite backup, Gmail backup, calendar backup and Google Drive backup has been completed and the data successfully transferred, the original user account can be deleted without fear of losing vital files or information.

Scenario #3

The malware, known as Gooligan, roots infected Android devices and steals email addresses and authentication tokens that can be used to access all data from Google apps including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Photos, Google Drive, and G Suite.

A statement from the Google Security team suggests that Gooligan was created in order to promote apps rather than steal user information, and asserts that user data has not yet been compromised. While this may be true currently, the potential certainly exists for sensitive personal or corporate information stored within Google apps to be accessed and manipulated, either by Gooligan or other similar malware. How to protect? Proactive and realistic approach is to use an app monitoring system such as the Cybersecurity service with 3rd-party apps audit, available from Spin.ai.