Google Drive

Overview

Google Drive is a cloud storage system that allows file sharing and collaboration. Avanan adds security, privacy, and compliance to Google Drive by scanning files shared in Google Drive for malicious content and data loss prevention (DLP) and generates actionable events on malicious content.

How it Works

Avanan adds a layer of security that provides these security features for Google Drive:

  • Data Leak Prevention (DLP): Protecting uploaded files containing sensitive data

  • Anti-Malware: Scanning of files for malicious content

  • Remediation: Quarantine malicious files and files containing sensitive data.

Avanan scans files in the following scenarios:

  • A new file is created

  • A file is uploaded

  • A file is modified (edited)

  • A file or directory is shared with new members

Note:

Avanan starts scanning files from the time of installation. Files that existed prior to installation are not scanned retroactively.

Required Permissions

The cloud state for Google Drive used by Avanan is composed of the following entities:

  • Users

  • Groups and Memberships

  • Tokens

  • Apps

  • Files and Folders

  • Permissions

Once the cloud state is saved, Avanan starts monitoring the changes for each user. To track changes for each user in the cloud, Avanan uses the following channels:

Avanan uses the following resources for Google Drive from the APIs:

  • Files and Folders metadata (not include file contents)

  • Users and Groups metadata

  • Permissions

  • Changes (not including the content of files changed)

  • Channels

  • Tokens

  • Applications

Activating Google Drive

For details about the procedure to activate Google Drive, see Activating Google Drive.

Deactivating Google Drive

  1. Click Security Settings > SaaS Applications.

  2. Click Stop for Google Drive.