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Google Workspace Security Audits

Safeguard Your Google Suite and Data

Discover if your company's data is truly protected in today's digital workspace. With remote teams, personal devices, and cloud services accessing your sensitive information daily, security risks have evolved. Our Google Workspace security audit helps identify vulnerabilities before they become breaches, ensuring your business stays protected in this new era of work.

What is a Google Workspace Security Audit?

A Google Workspace security audit is a comprehensive review of your instance's settings to verify its protection against data breaches, cyberattacks, and malicious or accidental employee actions.

Keep in mind that cloud security follows the Shared Responsibility Model.

Cloud Provider vs. User Responsibilities

  • Cloud Provider: Ensures the security of the physical infrastructure.
  • User: Responsible for securing access to data, systems, and applications.

The Google Workspace suite adheres to strict standards like ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2/3, and FedRAMP. However, even the most secure cloud environment cannot protect your company data if vulnerabilities are left open for cybercriminals to exploit.

Why Conduct a Security Audit?

Think about the potential consequences if:

  • Your accountant's work laptop is stolen and accessed by unauthorized individuals.
  • A malicious actor gains control of the drives where sensitive data is stored.
  • A previously used email account that contains company card details gets hacked.
  • A rogue manager leaks confidential information to a competitor.
  • Your legal team requires critical information from an email that has already been deleted.
  • A security audit helps identify and mitigate risks like these, ensuring your company’s data remains protected.

Benefits of a Security Audit

Think about the potential consequences if:

  • Identify who is sharing company data both internally and externally.
  • Enable two-step verification and secure access to cloud-stored resources.
  • Ensure the ability to restore data after accidental or malicious deletion.
  • Gain insights into advanced security settings for Google Workspace applications.
  • Minimize the risk of unauthorized access to Google Workspace accounts on mobile devices.

Basic Audit

During the Basic Security Audit, we will conduct a comprehensive analysis of over 150 risk points across eight key areas:

Identity Verification and Authentication

  • Account recovery, password management, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and Single Sign-On (SSO).

Administration

  • Access control for IT service management staff and Google Vault configurations.

Application Integration

  • Management of add-ons and third-party application access in compliance with OAuth standards.

Security Operations

  • Administrator alerts, threat analysis tools, and incident response processes.

Mail Settings

  • Authentication, encryption, security configurations, and compliance requirements.

Drive Settings

  • Sharing permissions, synchronization tools, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules.

Service Settings

  • Access controls for Calendar, Chat, Spaces, Groups, Meet, and Websites.

Device Management

  • Policies for managing browsers, mobile devices, and desktop systems.

Extended Audit

Additional Elements Covered in an Extended Security Audit

The Extended Audit builds on the Basic Audit by including the following components:

Google Drive Sharing and Authentication

  • Comprehensive export of all sharing permissions for both individual user drives and shared drives.

Google Chrome Audit

  • Verification of security-critical settings in Google Chrome across user devices.

External Applications

  • Export of all external applications authorized by users, including a detailed analysis of their permissions to access company data.

Rhyno Security Audit Process

Our security audit follows a five-stage process over four weeks:

Kick-off Meeting

  • Understand your organization’s needs, plan the audit process, and establish working teams.

Audit Execution

  • Conduct a thorough review of your Google Workspace security settings.

Recommendations

  • Deliver a detailed list of actionable guidance to enhance your company’s cybersecurity posture.

Presentation

  • Provide your team with a step-by-step walkthrough to implement high-priority changes, address specific issues, and share best practices.

Certificate

  • Issue a formal document confirming the completion of the security audit.

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