This morning Google made a couple of significant announcements regards G Suite for Education. First, there is a new G Suite Enterprise for Education which is designed for college and university deployment although K-12 schools can also get it. Second, new security features have been added to all versions of G Suite for Education.

Four security features have been added to the free version of G Suite for Education. Those new features are:

• Gmail and Drive Data Loss Prevention. 
• This allows administrators to prevent sharing of certain types of information including student information or anything else that administrators identify as sensitive information. 
• Security Key Management and Enforcement.
• This will enable administrators to force users to two-step authentication with physical keys. 
• Session Length Controls.
• Administrators can now set limits on how long users can be logged-in for a session before they have to sign-in again. 
• Hosted Gmail S/MIME.
• This is a tool for digitally signing and encrypting emails. This is designed to protect against email spoofing. 

G Suite Enterprise for Education vs. G Suite for Education
The new enterprise edition comes at a minimum cost of $2/month per faculty/staff member. The current edition of G Suite for Education (not the new enterprise version) is still completely free for schools. A comparison of features is available here.