To ensure that only a small group of senior employees can look up contact information and initiate collaboration with the VIPs, the best approach is to create separate Custom Directories for the VIPs and regular employees. This allows for a higher degree of privacy by limiting visibility and access to the VIPs' contact information and activity within G Suite services.
To find out how many email phishing attempts have been avoided since implementing 2FA and hardware keys, you would look under Reporting > Reports > Phishing. This is because reports on phishing are typically found within the reporting tools which compile and provide analytics on security incidents, including phishing attempts.
To ensure you have time to review new features before they are visible to employees, you should enable the 'Scheduled Release' option. This setting delays the release of new features to your users by at least a week after they are made available to those on the 'Rapid Release' track, providing you with the necessary time to prepare and train your users on the new interface. The other options do not apply to managing new feature releases in Gmail or G Suite.
To route all email from the generic intern accounts to the manager's mailbox, setting up recipient address mapping in GMail Advanced Settings is the most appropriate solution. This method not only ensures that emails are forwarded to the manager's mailbox, but also allows emails to still reach their original destination, which aligns with the requirement.
To ensure that the compliance footer cannot be removed, you should configure the Append Footer feature with the footer content. By organizing each sales team into its own organizational unit (OU), you can apply the Append Footer policy to all emails sent by users in those OUs, ensuring that the footer is consistently included and cannot be removed. This approach does not necessarily require translation for each locale since the compliance footer provided in the question does not specify the need for different languages. The focus is on ensuring the footer is appended and unremovable, which can be achieved through a single compliance footer configuration for the entire company.