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Protect Financial Data Across Google Workspace

Protecting financial data requires more than secure collaboration. GAT Labs helps Google Workspace administrators gain complete visibility into user activity, file sharing, and security events, making it easier to investigate incidents, manage risk, and support regulatory requirements.

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JD
Jordan Davis
Finance Operations · London
Elevated Risk
09:41
Successful login
Chrome · Managed device · London
09:43
Quarterly_Report.xlsx downloaded
Google Drive · 48 MB
09:44
File shared externally
External auditor added as editor
09:45
Permission changed
Public link enabled
09:46
Browser upload detected
File uploaded to an unapproved website
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High-risk activity detected
Multiple sensitive events in 5 minutes

Why Google Workspace Security
Is Different for Financial Institutions

Financial institutions depend on Google Workspace to collaborate across departments while handling confidential customer information, financial reports, contracts, and investment documents. At the same time, they must maintain strict governance, support regulatory requirements, and control access to sensitive data.

Can you quickly answer questions like:

Finance Teams
Executives
Legal
Auditors
Third-Party Advisors
Business Partners

Every collaboration introduces new permissions, new collaborators, and new governance challenges.

Industry Challenges

Common Google Workspace
Security Challenges for Financial Institutions

Financial institutions need to protect confidential information while maintaining productivity and meeting regulatory obligations.
These are some of the most common challenges Google Workspace Admins face.

Protect Confidential Financial Data

Customer records, financial reports, investment documents, and contracts are constantly being accessed and shared. Understanding who has access helps reduce unnecessary exposure.

Detect Insider Risk

Unusual downloads, permission changes, excessive sharing, and compromised accounts can all indicate suspicious activity. Early visibility helps organizations respond before risks escalate.

Support Regulatory Compliance

Financial institutions need detailed audit trails and reporting to support governance, regulatory reviews, and frameworks such as DORA, while maintaining strong internal controls and oversight of third-party access.

Manage Third-Party Access

Auditors, legal advisors, consultants, and vendors often require temporary access to sensitive information. Monitoring external collaboration helps reduce unnecessary exposure after projects end.

In practice

How Healthcare Organizations Use GAT Labs

01

Audit Google Workspace Activity

Monitor Google Drive, Gmail, Shared Drives, Chrome activity, Calendar, and administrator actions with detailed Google Workspace audit logs.

02

Respond to Google Workspace Security Incidents

Review complete activity timelines, monitor file access, investigate sharing events, and understand exactly what happened during a security incident.

03

Automate Google Workspace Administration

Simplify onboarding, offboarding, ownership transfers, user updates, and other repetitive Google Workspace administration with secure approval workflows.

Common Financial Institutions
Use Cases

Monitor Access to Confidential Financial Data

Review access to customer information, financial reports, and other sensitive files. Monitor permissions and external sharing to reduce unnecessary exposure.

Investigate Suspicious Account Activity

Review login history, file activity, administrator actions, browser activity, and sharing events to understand the full scope of suspicious behavior and respond quickly to potential threats.

Strengthen Risk Management

Identify risks early by monitoring user activity, file sharing, administrator actions, and policy changes. Generate reports to support governance and regulatory compliance.

Secure Employee Offboarding

Automate file ownership transfers, remove access, suspend accounts, and standardize offboarding to reduce the risk of former employees retaining access.

the gat suite ecosystem

One Platform.
Powerful Solutions.

Core Product

Audit and control your entire Google Workspace domain.

GAT+ gives admins the power to audit, monitor, and analyze user activity, file sharing, email interactions, and domain-wide configurations.
GAT Shield

Monitor user activity and stop risky behavior at the browser level.

GAT Shield delivers a 360° security layer, tracking browser interactions, web activity, and policy compliance, ensuring full transparency for admins.
Shield+

Continuous identity verification for Google Workspace.

Shield+ extends GAT Shield with advanced browser security, helping organizations go beyond passwords, passkeys, and MFA by continuously verifying the active user throughout every session.
GAT Flow

Automate onboarding, offboarding, and bulk admin tasks at scale.

GAT Flow eliminates repetitive tasks, letting you build workflows to manage users, email signatures, Drive access, and more, without coding.
GAT UNLOCK

Enforce secure access with multi-party approval.

GAT Unlock is a Multi-Party Approval system that enforces zero-trust security. File access changes, ownership transfers, and email delegation can only be completed with approval from both an admin and a designated Security Officer.
SOC2

GAT Labs continuously evolves with Google Workspace, delivering new capabilities that strengthen security, improve visibility, and simplify administration.

Why Financial Institutions Choose GAT Labs

Financial Security Overview
Greater control across Google Workspace
Protected

Reduce Data Exposure

Protect confidential financial information.

Improve Visibility

Gain deeper insight across Google Workspace.

Respond Faster

Investigate suspicious activity more efficiently.

Simplify Governance

Support regulatory reporting and internal controls.

Secure Collaboration

Manage auditors, vendors, and external partners.

Automate Administration

Reduce repetitive Google Workspace tasks.

Financial environment under control
Visibility, governance, and automation in one place

Frequently Asked Questions

How can financial institutions improve Google Workspace security and compliance?

Financial institutions need visibility into user activity, file sharing, administrator actions, and third-party access to support internal controls and regulatory requirements. GAT Labs helps Google Workspace administrators audit activity, investigate security incidents, monitor external collaboration, and generate detailed reports that support compliance initiatives such as DORA, SEC, FINRA, and SOC 2 where applicable.

Google Workspace allows administrators to review file sharing, but monitoring permissions across large environments can be time-consuming. GAT Labs helps identify externally shared files, public links, permission changes, and ownership updates, making it easier to protect confidential financial information and reduce unnecessary exposure.

Automating user lifecycle management helps financial organizations apply consistent security policies and reduce manual administration. GAT Flow automates onboarding, offboarding, ownership transfers, group membership, license management, and account suspension through secure, approval-based workflows.

Browser activity provides valuable context during security investigations. GAT Shield helps administrators monitor downloads, uploads, browser extensions, AI websites, and other Chrome activity, improving visibility into user behavior and helping identify potential risks earlier.

No. GAT Labs works alongside Google Workspace by extending native security and administration capabilities. It provides deeper auditing, browser-level visibility, automated workflows, delegated administration, approval-based actions, and more detailed reporting to help organizations strengthen security and governance.

Protect Financial Data with Greater Visibility

See how GAT Labs helps financial institutions protect confidential information, investigate security incidents, monitor file sharing, and automate Google Workspace administration.

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