Drive Security

Compare tools that check sharing on one Google account, and see why an AI assistant with a Drive connector answers a different question.

The Google Drive audit log shows who viewed, downloaded and shared your files. Here is where to find it, which five events to watch, and how to turn it into alerts.

When a security review lands on the calendar, most teams don't have a clean answer for who can access what across Google Workspace. Here's the Admin Console checklist — external sharing, Shared Drive managers, OAuth apps, and offboarded accounts — to run before the reviewer asks, not after.

Shared Drive permissions come with five roles, and the names mislead. What Manager, Content Manager, Contributor, Commenter and Viewer can each actually do — and who should hold which.

Offboarding gets the security attention. Onboarding creates the same problem in slow motion. A Google Workspace onboarding checklist that covers what a new hire can actually reach — not just what they've been handed.

Sharing audits miss it entirely: every OAuth token your team has ever granted still works. Here is how to review Google Drive third-party app access, what to flag, and how to make it a standing check.

I pointed my own Drive auditing tool at my own Drive and found 204 publicly-linked files, including my 2014 tax returns. Here's the free manual audit any signed-in user can run without an admin console, and the four gaps it can't close.

When a compliance audit lands, the scramble is always the same: no one can quickly show who has access to sensitive files, how long data lingers, or what happens when someone leaves. Here's how to audit your Google Drive sharing permissions before an assessor does — and turn a stressful scramble into a routine check.

That 'Anyone with the link' setting on your Google Drive files could be exposing sensitive data to the entire internet. Here's what you need to know.