Safer with Google
Every Google product is designed for safety. It’s our responsibility to keep your personal information private, safe, and secure.
Protecting the world’s data
with
industry-leading security
We’re dedicated to keeping everyone’s data safe with the most advanced technology, operated by skilled, trusted professionals.
Safeguarding your data 24/7
Stay connected, reliably
With robust business continuity and disaster recovery measures in place, our data centers will shift access automatically to another data center in the event of a disruption. And our emergency backup generators continue to work even during power failures.
To ensure our data centers run reliably 24/7, our employees at our data center control stations (as shown in our Mayes County, Oklahoma, data center above) monitor the building and its power structure with the ability to take calls from the field, validate repair tickets, and authorize repairs.
In case anything should happen to our data, we have it all backed up. One of the places we back up information is here in our tape library in our Lowcountry, South Carolina, data center. Robotic arms (visible at the end of the aisle) assist us in loading and unloading tapes when we need to access them.
Progressive layers of security across locations
We distribute all data across many computers in different locations, chunking and replicating it over multiple systems to avoid a single point of failure. We name these data chunks randomly to make them unreadable to the human eye.
Our six layers of physical security
See how our data centers are designed and operated with security in mind.
“We use thermal cameras and standard cameras, so we’re able to see video
footage at night just as clearly as we can during the day.”
Tarik Billingsley
Google Data Centers Area Security Manager
Security doesn’t stop
at the physical data centers
Keeping safety in mind with the Cloud
Google Cloud’s multifaceted protection is built upon six progressive layers to deliver defense-in-depth. From the hardware that is Google-built and hardened to our custom-made infrastructure, any application within our system deploys securely, using multiple mechanisms to establish and maintain trust. We encrypt everything from communications over the internet to every piece of data at rest within our network, enabling distribution for availability and reliability.
Our ongoing commitment to
business continuity
To ensure continuous operations and services at our data centers, we have robust, ISO 22301:2019 certified business continuity and disaster recovery measures in place.
