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Cybersecurity and compliance
on Google Workspace.
Security assessments, Zero Trust, email security and compliance from a Google Cloud Premier Partner.

Find out where your Google Workspace settings stand with a security assessment, tighten access with 2-Step Verification, device management and Context-Aware Access, protect your domain's email with SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and keep the records your auditor will ask for.

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Where should Google Workspace security start?

With an audit. A security assessment shows which settings are on in each organizational unit, who holds admin rights and which apps can reach your data; enforcement and compliance evidence build on what it finds.

The order matters because the controls depend on each other. Context-Aware Access can only check a device once Endpoint Verification or mobile management is in place, and Business editions don't include it. DMARC can't be enforced until every service that sends as your domain passes SPF or DKIM. And Vault keeps nothing until retention rules exist, so evidence you'll need later has to be set up now.

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Audit, enforce, evidence

Four services along one path, from finding the gaps to showing an auditor what you did about them.

Audit: find the gaps

A Google Workspace security audit of sign-in, admin access, Gmail, Drive, third-party apps, devices and alerting, ending in a Security Audit Workbook ranked by risk and an Implementation Guide.

Enforce: tighten access

2-Step Verification enforced, devices under management, and Context-Aware Access rules for each app, with the edition each control needs spelled out.

Protect your domain's email

SPF, DKIM and DMARC rolled out in stages so your own mail isn't blocked, plus Gmail's protections against mail pretending to come from your domain.

Evidence: show your auditor

What Google's BAA covers, Vault retention and holds, admin logs and Google's own SOC 2 and ISO 27001 reports, set against what your auditor still checks.

From audit to evidence

  1. AuditA security assessment shows where sign-in, sharing, apps and devices stand in each organizational unit, with findings ranked by risk.
  2. Fix the basicsEnforce 2-Step Verification, admins first. Set up SPF and DKIM and start DMARC at monitoring. Limit Drive sharing outside the organization.
  3. Enforce by contextBring devices under management, then add Context-Aware Access rules app by app, on editions that include it.
  4. Keep the evidenceVault retention rules, admin logs kept beyond six months where your audit needs them, the BAA if you hold patient data, and Google's own reports for your vendor review.
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Cybersecurity & compliance FAQ

What IT leads ask when deciding where to begin.

Not sure where your gaps are?

Tell us your Workspace edition and what prompted the review, and we'll point you to the right first step.

We don't have in-house IT. Where do we start?

With the audit. Connections Health, a therapy practice with no in-house IT professional, started there: the audit ran over several meetings around the practice's schedule, and DKIM and DMARC were set up afterwards.

We have an audit coming up. Is it too late to start?

No, but some evidence only exists from the day you set it up: Vault keeps nothing before retention rules exist, and admin logs go back six months. Set those first, then work through what the security assessment finds.

Where does email security fit?

Early. Google's security health page already checks SPF, DKIM and DMARC, so gaps there usually show up in the audit, and DMARC needs a staged rollout so your own mail keeps arriving while the policy tightens.

Talk through your security and compliance plans

Tell us your Workspace edition, what prompted the review and any audit dates you're working to.

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