Centralized Audit Evidence and Reporting for SOC 2
and ISO 27001
Improve visibility across Google Workspace with advanced auditing, access monitoring, reporting, and governance tools designed to help security and compliance teams support SOC 2, ISO 27001, and internal governance requirements.
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What Does SOC 2 Mean
for Google Workspace Admins?
SOC 2 focuses on how organizations manage security, access control, monitoring, and protection of customer data.
For Google Workspace admins, this includes auditing user behavior, monitoring external sharing, managing account lifecycle processes, reviewing third party app access, and maintaining audit evidence for investigations and reporting.
How Does ISO 27001 Apply
to Google Workspace?
ISO 27001 requires organizations to establish and maintain an Information Security Management System (ISMS).
In Google Workspace environments, this often involves monitoring access permissions, reviewing user activity, managing data exposure risks, auditing third party applications, and documenting security processes.
What Google does not give you by default
SOC 2 and ISO 27001 auditors ask for documented evidence of access control, monitoring, and incident response. Google Workspace logs some activity, but not at the depth or structure these frameworks require.
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What auditors need
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What Google Admin console provides
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File-level access history with user, timestamp, and action
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Basic Drive activity logs, limited retention
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Documented approval process for accessing sensitive data
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No structured access request or approval workflow
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External sharing records and remediation evidence
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Sharing reports available, but bulk action and logging are limited
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Browser-level activity logs for data loss prevention
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Not available natively
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Scheduled, exportable audit reports
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Manual exports only, no scheduling
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Audit evidence without the manual work
How GAT Labs maps to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls
SOC 2 Trust Service Criteria
GAT Labs addresses the following Trust Service Criteria across access, monitoring, and risk management.
CC6 — Logical access
File permission history, external share logs, access reviews by OU and role.
CC7 — System monitoring
Automated alerts for risky sharing, forwarding rules, and external access events.
CC9 — Risk mitigation
Bulk remediation logs, documented corrective actions with timestamps.
CC2 — Communication
GAT Unlock approval logs: every sensitive access request, approver, and outcome.
ISO 27001 Annex A Controls
For ISO 27001, the following Annex A controls are directly supported through GAT+ and GAT Unlock.
A.9 — Access control
User access records, group membership logs, permission change history.
A.12 — Operations security
Scheduled audit reports, Chrome activity logs, DLP event records.
A.18 — Compliance
Exportable audit trails, scheduled compliance reports, retention documentation.
A.16 — Incident management
Alert history, response records, and remediation documentation in GAT+
The GAT Labs tools that support compliance
Each product addresses a different part of the compliance picture.
Most organizations use GAT+ and GAT Unlock together as a foundation.
Core audit tool
Full visibility across Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and Groups. Scheduled reports, bulk remediation, and exportable audit logs across your entire domain.
- – File sharing and permission history
- – Gmail forwarding and delegation logs
- – Scheduled compliance reports
- – Bulk remediation with action logs
Real-time Chrome monitoring for downloads, visited sites, and data movement. Catches risks that email and Drive audits miss entirely.
- – Download and upload event logs
- – Browser-level DLP alerts
- – Extension monitoring
- – Session and time-on-site reporting
Workflow automation
Automated onboarding and offboarding with approval steps. Every action is logged, making user lifecycle changes defensible to auditors.
- – Access provisioning logs
- – Offboarding workflow documentation
- – Approval records for sensitive changes
- – Bulk permission change history
Approval-based access to sensitive Gmail and Drive content. Every request is logged with the requestor, approver, time, and outcome.
- – Multi-party approval workflow
- – Full access request audit trail
- – Temporary, permission-scoped access
- – Security Officer sign-off required
Audit ready,
not audit-scrambling
GAT is the only full-stack audit and security platform built specifically for Google Workspace.
One suite covers data discovery, sharing audit, real-time alerting, bulk remediation, compliance reporting, and browser-level controls.
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Evidence already prepared
Scheduled reports mean your audit evidence is generated continuously, not assembled manually when the auditor arrives.
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Built-in accountability
GAT Unlock ensures sensitive data access always has a documented request, approval, and outcome. No informal access, no gaps.
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The tool is certified too
GAT Labs is SOC 2 Type II certified. Auditors increasingly ask about the security posture of your tooling, not just your data.
All the usage and audit data for everything in Google Workspace is all in one place. It makes it easy to find where data is going, setup alerts for DLP, and change permissions on a live environment.
Compliance in
Google Workspace
Does Google Workspace provide enough native logging for a SOC 2 audit?
Google Workspace provides native audit logs and reporting tools, but some organizations require deeper visibility, longer historical reporting, and more granular activity monitoring to support internal security reviews and SOC 2 related processes. GAT Labs extends auditing capabilities across Google Workspace with reporting, sharing visibility, user activity monitoring, and browser level insights through GAT Shield.
Can I use GAT Labs to support ISO 27001 Annex A.9 access control requirements?
Yes. GAT Labs helps organizations strengthen access control processes in Google Workspace through auditing, delegated administration, multi party approval workflows with GAT Unlock, and detailed reporting on user and group access changes. These capabilities help organizations support least privilege access models and improve visibility for security and compliance reviews.
What audit logs should organizations monitor in Google Workspace?
Organizations often monitor login activity, file sharing changes, permission updates, email activity, third party app access, browser behavior, onboarding and offboarding actions, and administrative changes across the domain.
What is the shared responsibility model in Google Workspace?
Google manages the security of the cloud infrastructure, while organizations remain responsible for managing security, access controls, auditing, and governance within their own Google Workspace environment.
Ready to make your next audit easier?
Book a session with our team. We will walk through your compliance requirements and show you exactly what GAT Labs produces for your auditors.
