Introducing Frontline Plus: Enhanced Security and AI features for Frontline Workers

What’s changing

We’re expanding Google Workspace Frontline to include a new edition: Frontline Plus. Building on the core Frontline offering, Frontline Plus includes our most advanced data protection and compliance controls, inline with features available in our Enterprise Plus plan. Further, Frontline Plus users will gain access to helpful Google AI capabilities including Gemini in Gmail, Google Chat, and Google Meet, AI classification in Drive, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM. 


Keep reading for more information on specific features. To learn more about Google Workspace Frontline, visit the Help Center or contact our Sales team. In line with the other Frontline editions, Frontline Plus is not available for self-service purchase. 


Who’s impacted

Admins and end users 


Why it matters 

Today, our Frontline offerings open up communication and collaboration channels between frontline workers and corporate teams in a way that’s safe and secure. Frontline Plus layers on our comprehensive suite of security and admin controls, as well as providing frontline workers with useful AI features, including:

Security

AI classification in Drive

IT teams can automatically and continuously identify, classify, and label sensitive files according to the specific needs of your organization. Classified files can then be protected with existing data loss prevention (DLP) controls. 

Hosted S/MIME

Enable the S/MIME standard to encrypt incoming and outgoing mail messages.

Work insights

Get access to detailed metrics on your organization's Google Workspace usage.

Enterprise data regions

You can choose to store your covered data in a specific geographic location (the United States or Europe). Data regions cover data at rest (including backups) and data processing for customer-supplied data in several Google Workspace core services.

Client-side encryption

Client-side encryption adds another layer to the default encryption that Google Workspace provides. CSE helps to keep your organization's data private with end-to-end encryption that Google servers and third parties can't decrypt, giving your organization greater control over access to its data. 

Security Sandbox

You can use Gmail Security Sandbox to protect your organization against malware. It works by scanning incoming email attachments in a secure, isolated environment called a “Security Sandbox” to identify malware in the attachments without risking any harm to your organization.

Access Transparency

You can use Access Transparency to review logs of actions taken by Google staff when accessing user content.

Gmail

Help me write

Effortlessly write and improve your new emails and replies – from polishing your tone with a single click to generating new drafts from scratch.

Side panel

Draft email responses, query your emails (“Catch me up on Project Clover emails”), and summarize emails and email threads.

Contextual smart replies

Gemini can analyze the context of an email and suggest relevant responses with Contextual Smart Reply.

Meet

Take notes for me

Automatically capture meeting notes, organize them in Google Docs, and share them with your team. Those joining late can catch up during the meeting with “Summary so far”.

Adaptive audio

Adaptive audio lets teams join meetings from multiple nearby laptops without echo or feedback, which is useful when conference rooms or meeting equipment is scarce.

Studio sound, studio look, and studio lighting

Studio look uses artificial intelligence to fix issues caused by low light or low quality webcams, while Studio lighting can be used to simulate studio-quality lighting. Studio sound will automatically improve poor audio quality from typical bluetooth headsets and dial-in participants by using AI to recreate higher audio frequencies.

Translated captions

Meet will automatically detect and translate over 65 languages to a user’s preferred language.

Generate a background

With Gemini in Meet, you can generate unique and bespoke meeting backgrounds. Meeting backgrounds can help obscure your surroundings during a meeting or they can enhance the meeting itself.

Chat

Side panel

Summarize a space or conversation (“What are the key takeaways in this conversation?”), generate a list of action items (“Are there any action items for me in this conversation?”), or ask specific questions (“What is the decision on the project discussed in this conversation?”).

Automatic translation

Chat will automatically detect and translate over 120 languages to a user’s preferred language while keeping the original message available for review.

As well as access to:

Gemini app

Kickstart learning, creating, and planning. Or use Gems to build a team of AI experts to tackle complex projects, including coding, research, and data analysis.

NotebookLM

Accelerate team knowledge sharing by uploading your sources to get instant insights and podcast-like Audio Overviews. 

*Visit the Help Center to learn more about specific feature availability.



Getting started

  • Admins: 
  • End users: 
    • To get the most out of the AI features included with your Frontline Plus license: 

Availability

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