Articles about G Suite

Inbound documents are documents that are owned externally and shared with accounts at your company. More times than not, securing these documents is an afterthought because they are owned by other companies or external accounts. But this doesn’t make them any less risky. Oftentimes, these documents contain highly confidential company information, and they are not… (more) The Complete Guide To Securing Inbound Documents

If you or another employee leaves a project or job, you may need to transfer ownership of your company files to someone else in the company. This is vital for data security practices and compliance with offboarding processes and can occur in a few different ways that admins or employees can manage.  We’ll break down… (more) How To Transfer Ownership In Google Workspace

Creating and managing access to folders in Google shared drives can be confusing for admins and employees alike. There are a lot of nuances to how they work—get it wrong, and suddenly confidential information sitting inside a folder within a shared drive could be shared with people who shouldn’t have access. That’s why it’s incredibly… (more) How To Secure Shared Drive Folders In Google Workspace 

In Google Workspace, labels are metadata that admins can define to help their employees better find and organize documents. They can also be used by admins to apply certain policies in Drive, as well as classify content and find files more quickly.  Managing labels is a newer feature that was recently introduced to Google Workspace,… (more) How To Manage Labels In Google Workspace

Our customer success manager recently said, “We’re getting a lot of questions about shared drives in Google Workspace.” We’re used to these types of questions. Many admins aren’t sure what privileges they have or how they can control them in their Admin console. They want to know how they can confidently secure their shared drives,… (more) Top Google Admin Privileges For Shared Drives

Shared drives in Google Workspace can be confusing. What are the security risks? Who has access to your company’s shared drive? What permissions do they have, and how can you change these permissions to keep your company’s data safe? We’ll go over the security risks of using shared drives and give you a complete guide… (more) The Complete Guide To Shared Drive Access Levels In Google Workspace

Picture this. You’re working with a new vendor and need to share a few documents so you can collaborate with them. The documents contain relatively benign company information but nothing you’d like to be made public. This vendor doesn’t have the same standards of compliance as your company, and you’re really only going to work… (more) How To Set A Sharing Expiration Date In Google Workspace

One of the easiest and fastest ways to share Google Workspace documents is through links. Just click a button, and boom, suddenly documents can be shared using a link across a variety of tools. It’s become sharing muscle memory. Links to documents are constantly dropped into tools like Slack, GitHub, Trello, and even publicly on… (more) How To Secure Links In Google Workspace

As a Google admin, you have quite a bit of power when it comes to setting permissions for your teams. Depending on your Google Workspace plan, you are able to control how your users share links. We’ll briefly go over the permissions you can set for your employees and how to do it in your… (more) How To Set Link Sharing Permissions In Google Workspace