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Target Audience |
Admin |
Categories |
MS Teams / Azure |
Read Time |
2 minutes |
Understand time including reading links |
2 minutes |
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Target Audience |
Admin |
Categories |
MS Teams / Azure |
Read Time |
2 minutes |
Understand time including reading links |
2 minutes |
Features |
Microsoft Office 365 |
G Suite |
Winner |
Security & Information Protection |
Office 365 offers Azure Information Protection (AIP) Rights Management (IRM) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP). | G Suite also offers Rights Management (IRM) and Data Loss Protection (DLP). | |
Rights Management is enabled on email/file stage, hence, regardless of storage location, the data is secured. | Rights Management offers users to immobilize downloading, printing and copying of all or any Google Drive file but under one condition that the file should be within Google ecosystem. | ||
Data Loss Prevention policies secure not just emails, files on Sharepoint and Onedrive as well. | Data Loss Protection covers just Gmail. In order to secure documents, users need to purchase 3rd party services. | ||
Reliability |
Microsoft guarantees a service level agreement of 99.9% with its users. |
Google guarantees a service level agreement of 99.9% with its users. |
TIE |
Cloud On Par Storage |
1 TB of online Cloud storage per user, regardless of the plan you choose. However, storage can be requested to increase further to 5TB (depending on certain conditions) by calling support. |
30 GB of online Cloud storage per user for Basic accounts. OR Unlimited storage for Business, Team or Enterprise accounts that have at least 5 users. |
TIE |
Compliance |
Office 365 offers auditing, eDiscovery, archiving, internal site search and legal hold features. |
G Suite offers auditing, eDiscovery, archiving, internal site search and legal hold features. |
TIE |
Features |
Microsoft Office 365 |
G Suite |
Winner |
Data Centre Security |
Microsoft takes pride in having state of the art data Centers, quality anti-spam and anti-virus protection, encrypted access to data, and integration with multi-factor authentication solutions, which are all included with their security measures. In addition, Microsoft spends over $1 billion annually on security. |
G Suite shares a privacy policy across both business and consumer applications, meaning that data protection might not meet certain industry regulations or business security requirements. However, Google does provide world-class security at their data centers |
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Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) |
Office 365 provides Advanced Threat Protection Policies (ATP) that is used to protect your devices from malwares and viruses. |
G Suite has no comparison |