Protect Your Data, IP, and Access Across Google Workspace
Technology and business service organizations move fast. New employees join, contractors require temporary access, third-party applications are connected, and projects evolve across multiple teams. As Google Workspace environments grow, maintaining visibility across users, permissions, file sharing, and connected applications becomes increasingly challenging.
Why Google Workspace Security
Is Different for
Technology & Business Services
Fast-moving technology companies, SaaS vendors, IT consultancies, and professional service agencies operate at high velocity. Every day, product repositories, client deliverables, API keys, roadmaps, and financial models flow across employees, temporary contractors, client teams, and third-party SaaS tools.
As your Google Workspace domain scales, maintaining visibility across shifting permissions, connected applications, and external collaborators creates severe operational blind spots:
- Which contractors still have access to company data?
- Who is sharing files outside the organization?
- Which third-party apps can access your Google Workspace data?
Google Workspace Security & Compliance Challenges
in Fast-Growing Services
enforcing client NDA terms, and satisfying SOC 2 Type II controls.
Protect Intellectual Property & Sensitive Data
Source code, product designs, customer data, and strategic plans are constantly accessed and shared. Broad permissions, external sharing, and high volumes of collaboration can make sensitive data difficult to track and protect.
Control Contractor & Third-Party Access
Contractors, consultants, and client teams often need temporary access to files and projects. Permissions can remain in place after projects or contracts end, leaving sensitive information accessible longer than intended.
Manage OAuth Apps & Shadow IT
Employees regularly connect SaaS applications, AI tools, and browser extensions to their work accounts. These connections can introduce additional permissions and new paths to company data that administrators may struggle to track.
Monitor AI & Browser Data Exposure
Employees can upload source code, customer information, financial data, or other sensitive content to AI tools, personal accounts, and external websites. Browser-based activity creates another potential path for company data to leave the organization.
How Technology & Business Services Teams
Secure Google Workspace with GAT Labs
01
Audit User &
Admin Activity Domain-Wide
Review activity across Google Drive, Gmail, Shared Drives, Chrome, Calendar, and administrator actions.
02
Monitor Sharing and Permissions
See who has access to sensitive business data, intellectual property, and project files, including external users and contractors.
03
Automate User Management
Manage onboarding, offboarding, ownership transfers, access changes, and other routine Google Workspace tasks with controlled workflows.
04
Investigate Security Incidents
Trace suspicious activity across users, files, devices, and browser activity to understand what happened and where data may have been exposed.
High-Value Use Cases for Technology & Professional Services
Protect Intellectual Property
Monitor access to source code, product documentation, business plans, research, and other sensitive company information.
Manage Contractor and Client Access
Review permissions for contractors, consultants, clients, and project teams, and remove access when it is no longer required.
Secure External Collaboration
Track files shared outside the organization and identify sensitive information exposed through external links, personal accounts, or third-party collaboration.
Monitor Connected Apps and Browser Activity
Gain visibility into OAuth applications, browser activity, downloads, uploads, and AI tool usage that could expose company data.
One Platform.
Powerful Solutions.
Core Product
Audit and control your entire Google Workspace domain.
Monitor user activity and stop risky behavior at the browser level.
Continuous identity verification for Google Workspace.
Automate onboarding, offboarding, and bulk admin tasks at scale.
Enforce secure access with multi-party approval.
improve visibility, and simplify administration.
Built for Google Workspace
Why teams choose GAT Labs
One platform for the visibility, access control, and investigation work
Google Workspace doesn't give you out of the box.
Deep workspace visibility
See user activity, access, sharing, and changes across your environment.
Control external access
Review permissions for contractors, clients, and third-party collaborators.
Automate administration
Manage lifecycle and access changes through controlled workflows.
Investigate faster
Connect user, file, browser, and administrator activity when incidents occur.
Frequently Asked Questions
Google Workspace provides basic sharing information, but reviewing permissions across large environments can be time-consuming. GAT Labs helps administrators identify who has access to files and folders, monitor external sharing, review ownership, and investigate permission changes across Google Drive and Shared Drives.
Start by reviewing login history, file activity, emails, sharing events, administrator actions, and browser activity to understand what happened and what data may have been affected. GAT Labs brings this information together to help administrators investigate incidents more efficiently.
Contractors often need temporary access to files, Shared Drives, and applications. Regularly reviewing permissions, monitoring external collaboration, and automating offboarding helps reduce the risk of unnecessary access remaining after a project ends. GAT Flow can automate many of these lifecycle tasks.
User lifecycle management can be automated by assigning licenses, moving users into organizational units, transferring file ownership, updating groups, and suspending or deleting accounts based on predefined workflows. GAT Flow helps organizations standardize these processes with secure approval workflows.
Monitoring downloads, sharing activity, administrator actions, browser activity, and permission changes helps identify unusual behavior before it becomes a security incident. GAT Labs provides detailed audit logs, reporting, alerts, and investigation tools to improve visibility across Google Workspace.
Secure Your Growing
Google Workspace Environment
Protect proprietary IP, control external contractor access, manage third-party app risk, and automate lifecycle administration across Google Workspace.
