{"id":2379,"date":"2022-01-21T16:55:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2379"},"modified":"2024-06-11T09:56:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T08:56:45","password":"","slug":"google-workspace-apps-risk-assessment","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/tech-tips\/google-workspace-apps-risk-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Workspace Apps Risk Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>The number of 3rd party apps available on the Google Workspace marketplace is evergrowing and what your users (employees) install and connect to becomes tricky to track.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why GAT+ provides an application risk assessment so you can judge whether a company has a valid reason for a privilege given.<\/p>\n<h3>Getting Started<\/h3>\n<p>Navigate to GAT+ &gt; Applications from the menu<\/p>\n<p>There you will see each application installed, the number of users who installed it, and what privileges the application has requested.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7485\" src=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2023-05-09-17_30_43-GAT.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2114\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2023-05-09-17_30_43-GAT.png 2114w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2023-05-09-17_30_43-GAT-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2023-05-09-17_30_43-GAT-1024x414.png 1024w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2023-05-09-17_30_43-GAT-768x310.png 768w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2023-05-09-17_30_43-GAT-360x145.png 360w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2023-05-09-17_30_43-GAT-1536x621.png 1536w, https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2023-05-09-17_30_43-GAT-2048x827.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2114px) 100vw, 2114px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Safe Scopes Privileges Given to 3rd Party Apps<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/plus.login&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/plus.me&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/plus.profiles.read&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/plus.profile.agerange.read&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/plus.profile.emails.read&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/plus.profiles.read&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/userinfo.email&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/userinfo.profile&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/userinfo#email&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/userinfo.openid.directed&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/drive.appdata&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/drive.file&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/drive.appfolder&#8221;, &#8220;<\/li>\n<li>https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/drive.install&#8221;, &#8220;openid&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>High Risk and Risky Privileges Given to 3rd Party Apps<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/mail.google.com&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/gmail&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/docs.google.com\/feeds&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.google.com\/m8\/feeds&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/apps-apis.google.com\/a\/feeds&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/docs.googleusercontent.com\/&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/drive&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/admin&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/directory&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/appengine&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/apps&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;https:\/\/www.googleapis.com\/auth\/compute&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Scope risk score<\/h4>\n<p>The <strong>Scope risk score<\/strong> is given based on the privileges granted.<\/p>\n<p>The Scope risk score is devided into <strong>Low, Moderate and High.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By a combination of the scopes (permissions) required by the application we devide and separate them into 3 main scope risk scores.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low<\/li>\n<li>Moderate<\/li>\n<li>High<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Want to Take Actions?<\/h3>\n<p>If you wish to Ban applications because of the privileges they are requesting, or you don&#8217;t trust the vendor or company.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the steps covered in this post called <a href=\"https:\/\/gatlabs.com\/knowledge\/tech-tips\/audit-and-manage-third-party-applications-in-google-workspace\/\">Audit &amp; 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