Find Every Exposed File. Fix It Before It Becomes a Problem.
Use this guide to discover sensitive data across your Google Workspace domain, assess your exposure using a practical risk framework, and build an ongoing DSPM practice that keeps you ahead of incidents and audits.
Why Google Admins
Need This Guide?
Most Google Workspace admins do not find out about their data exposure from an audit tool. They find out from an incident, a compliance request they cannot answer quickly, or a DSAR that takes weeks to piece together. This guide gives you the framework and the steps to get ahead of that.
- Identify every externally shared file across your domain, including files owned by former employees with active shares still live
- Use the exposure risk matrix to score and prioritise your findings so you know exactly where to act first
- Follow a six-step scenario walkthrough for one of the most common real-world situations: a team member left and their data is still exposed
- Remediate at scale with bulk actions covering permission revocation, ownership transfer, and OAuth app clean-up
- Set up real-time alerting and ongoing monitoring so new risks are caught as they appear, not weeks later
Built for IT admins, security teams, and compliance officers who need to know where their sensitive data is and have a repeatable process to keep it governed.