How To Remove Public Exposure In Google Docs and Sites

Data breaches, whether they happen mistakenly or maliciously, should be addressed and corrected immediately to minimize any possible damage to the organization as a result of this exposure.

CloudLock gives you the tools you need to find public exposures, remove them to secure sensitive documents and sites and continuously monitor your domain to make sure you stay on top any new exposures.

This is how CloudLock can help you take the necessary steps to secure you Google Documents and Sites:

Removing Public Exposure In Google Docs

Step #1 – Find sensitive documents

Perform a keyword search to find all the sensitive documents. CloudLock’s advanced search capability allows you to search your entire domain for documents by any attribute (names, owners, shared with, type, exposure etc.).

Step #2 – Sort to find which of the sensitive documents are publicly exposed

At this point you can also export the list of results, showing potentially sensitive documents that are exposed.

Step #3 – Audit the documents

Verify that you do not have false positives or vise versa. Examining the document contents is available for privileged users, and gives you the ability to verify that documents should be secured.

Step #4 – Select documents

Choose some or all the documents you would like to secure and remove the public exposure by selecting this operation from the drop down list.

Step #5 – Monitor your Google Documents

To make sure no new exposures are created. Every time a new exposure is created you will get an email alert.

Removing Public Exposure In Google Sites

Step #1 – Find exposed sites

CloudLock’s dashboard gives you an audit of all Google Sites that are exposed publicly (visible to anyone on the internet) or externally (visible to users outside of your domain).

Step #2 – Examine content in your Google Sites and remove exposures

Change permissions on Sites that should not be be publicly or externally shared.

Get a free trial of CloudLock for Google Apps today.

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