With Google Apps for Government, agencies can benefit from the scale and redundancy of one of the most robust networks of distributed datacenters in the world. The protection of the data and intellectual property on these servers is Google’s top priority, with extensive resources dedicated to maintaining data security. Google is committed to providing the best security in the industry on an ongoing basis.

Google Apps for Government provides segregated systems for our US government customers. Government customer data is stored in the US only. This "community cloud" – as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology – is available now to any federal, state or local government in the United States.

Security & reliability advantages of the cloud

Google Apps brings you the latest technologies and some of the best practices in the industry for datacenter management, network application security, and data integrity.

• Prepare your agency with best-in-class disaster recovery at no additional cost.
• Protect against the latest threats with no scheduled downtime. Google’s architecture enables rapid updates and configuration changes across the entire network as needed.
• Get 99.9% uptime with the Google Apps for Government service level agreement, giving you confidence that employees will have access whenever they need it.
• Reduce the risk of lost USB drives and laptops; employees can access information securely from anywhere.
• Benefit from Google’s full-time information security team, including some of the world’s foremost experts in information, application, and network security.

Obtaining Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification & accreditation for Google Apps is critical to US federal government customers, who must comply with FISMA by law. All customers – both public and private sector – benefit from this governmental review and certification of Google’s security controls.

• Google is the first in the industry to complete FISMA certification for a multi-tenant cloud application.
• Google Apps has received an authority to operate at the FISMA-Moderate level; an independent auditor assessed the level of operational risk as Low.
• Google's FISMA documentation is available for review by interested agencies.This enables agencies to compare the security of Google Apps to that of existing systems. Submit a request.