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SaaS Management: Google Workspace Connector

探花大神庐 SaaS Management gives you visibility and control over shadow IT and SaaS app use within your org. Connectors detect shadow IT without adoption of a browser extension and provide a significant increase to the valuable usage and security insights.

The Google Workspace Connector retrieves users lists and data from the Google Workspace API, enabling seamless integration with third-party apps authenticated via Google credentials. It captures new users and login events via periodic polling and webhooks for real-time updates. This connector also ensures data integrity and security because it is configured via OAuth with read-only permissions.

Prerequisites

  • To configure the connector, you must be a Google Workspace admin with read privileges.

Considerations

  • Based on your organization鈥檚 size, the initial collection of data may take some time, up to an hour. 

Configuring 探花大神

  1. Log in to the .
  2. Go to SECURITY MANAGEMENT > SaaS Management.
  3. In SaaS Management settings, go to the Connector tab and select + Add Connector.
  1. Select Google Workspace and click Connect
  2. Enter a name and click Connect
  3. Follow the redirect prompt from Google by clicking Allow.
  4. Google Workspace is added to your list of Connectors.

Note:

If permissions are accidentally removed, or if the admin who configured left your organization, the connector will stop working and you will be prompted to Reconnect.

Required Permissions

  • View customer related information: Allows 探花大神 to collect the basic information about your Google Workspace, such as ID and domain name
  • See info about users on your domain: Allows 探花大神 to list the users in your domains
  • Manage data access permissions for users on your domain: Allows 探花大神 to capture discovered application data

Uninstall/Remove

  • On the Connector鈥檚 detail page, click on Delete Connector and follow the prompts.

Note:

You can also revoke 探花大神鈥檚 access through Google Security, but if the connector is not deleted in 探花大神 the data collection will stop and existing data will remain.

OAuth Permissions

As part of Security Insights, the Google Workspace connector discovers and reports the OAuth permissions that users assign to apps when they click Sign in with Google. These permissions can grant apps access to sensitive or privileged information. See Security Insights to learn more.

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