Google Workspace Security 101

The most basic steps to secure your Google Workspace

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
Published in
9 min readMar 18, 2024

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In a prior post I was migrating some emails from one Google Workspace to another.

Along with that I wanted to write about some quick things you can do to secure your Google Workspace account if you haven’t already.

This is not a complete list of security best practices for Google Workspace. However, here are some immediate and basic things you can do to improve the security of your account.

Look at which users are assigned to the admin role. While logged into the admin dashboard (https:// admin.google.com) take a look at who is assigned an Admin role by clicking Admin roles on the left. Make sure you know who has administrative access as they can do anything in your account.

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Teri Radichel
Teri Radichel

Written by Teri Radichel

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