Top Nine Google Apps for Security and Compliance

Google Apps provides a less expensive, Web-based alternative to traditional proprietary software. In addition to the standard Gmail, Calendar and Doc features, there are a wide variety of integrated apps available that add functionality to Google Apps. These integrated apps also include single sign-on capability, thereby limiting the number of passwords users must remember. This slideshow features nine of the highest-rated apps for security and compliance from the Google Apps Marketplace.

Click through for nine of the highest-rated security and compliance apps from the Google Apps Marketplace.

Spanning Backup for Google Apps continually backs up Google Drive, Gmail, docs, calendars, and contacts to the cloud to make sure your most important data is never lost. Using Spanning Backup’s easy Web interface, you can restore backups in seconds. Spanning Backup has successfully completed the SSAE 16 audit process. Spanning backup offers unlimited storage, point-in-time restores, selective backups and batch restores.

Cost: 14-day free trial / $35 per user/year with discount code (additional 25 percent discount for .edu and .org domains)

Backupify provides secure, scalable, and automatic back up for your Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Contacts and Sites. Archives of backups can be securely accessed and managed from any Web browser.

Cost: 15-Day Free Trial / $3 per month

CloudLock protects sensitive data like PII and PCI stored in Google Docs, Sites, Google+ and Google Drive by providing enterprise-class DLP, auditing and compliance, and end-user-driven security. SSAE 16 certified.

Cost: 7-Day Free Trial / $7 per user/year

DomainWatch addresses crucial security and compliance concerns by giving Google Apps administrators visibility and control of their domain’s critical assets. The DomainWatch dashboard provides a single view of how users share Docs, Sites and Calendars with people both outside and inside of your domain. Unique to DomainWatch, the Policy Editor allows you to specify what’s permitted or not permitted in your domain. DomainWatch monitors your domain based on your policies and flags non-compliant sharing as a violation.

Cost: 7-Day Free Trial / $8 per user/year

Clutch Mobile for Google Apps provides security and device management to ensure company data is secure on mobile devices. Wipe or lock a lost device, enforce policies, see which devices have malware, and more. Available for Android, iPhone and iPad.

Cost: Free for up to five devices / Over five devices – $2.50 per device/month

Enhance your Gmail with BCC Detect!. Audit or limit undeclared blind carbon copy email within your organization. For example, catch and block BCC email sent to undeclared recipients outside of your domain.

Cost: Free – hosted edition

gPanel Security & Discovery (gSD) is an advanced governance, risk management, and compliance platform for Google Apps. The auditing engine thoroughly analyzes and records the current state of your data every night. This allows you to self-assess your risk and exposure by reviewing creation, modification, and deletion dates. Instantly review data access exposure. Have the ability to produce reports on every doc that was changed for a given day and who changed it.

Take a proactive approach to data security and data loss prevention (DLP) with features such as shared policies management (white list and black list domains in the shares) and Lock Box (onDemand Document Locking & Storage). gSD not only has the ability to discover Intellectual Property (IP) contained in your data, but more importantly you can define an action to take place to secure, protect, or copy of that found data.

Cost: 14-Day Free Trial

Once installed, this app allows for users to self-manage the password reset process for any Google Apps enabled domain. The process involves prompting the users to assign secure questions and answers in advance so that when they forget their password the system can know with confidence that the user is authentic so that they may choose a new password and access their account without the need to contact the domain admin.

Cost: Free for up to 2 users / Over 2 users – $0.10 per user/month

FraudPointer enables online businesses such as payment services, online travel, e-commerce, gaming, gambling, dating and social networks to prevent online fraud, such as credit card CNP fraud transactions and chargebacks, account phishing and online abusive behaviors.

Cost: First 500 transactions free/month