Google CASB: Protect Google Workspace & Drive

What Is Google CASB and Why It Matters

A Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) governs how your users access and share data in the cloud.
In the Google ecosystem, it’s the missing layer between users and Google services — ensuring that sensitive data isn’t accidentally exposed, maliciously shared, or left unmonitored.

Traditional CASBs rely on proxies or agents, which introduce latency and break modern workflows.
Strac takes a new approach: a Google CASB built entirely via API, giving you full visibility into every file, message, and permission across your Google tenant — without interrupting productivity.

Why Companies Need a Google CASB Solution

1. Shadow IT and App Discovery

Employees constantly connect OAuth apps and extensions to Google Workspace.
Strac discovers every third-party app, evaluates its risk score, and helps you revoke unsafe permissions — closing one of the biggest modern security gaps.

2. Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Drive and Gmail

Files and emails often contain PII, PHI, or PCI data that may be publicly shared or emailed externally.
Strac’s CASB for Google scans every file, message, and attachment — using AI + regex + context — to detect and remediate sensitive data exposure.

• Detect sensitive data (SSNs, credit cards, health info, financial records)
• Alert admins instantly in Slack, Teams, or email
• Auto-restrict or delete risky shares

3. Misconfiguration Detection & Remediation

Public “Anyone with link” permissions → Strac automatically sets them to Restricted.
External collaborators → Strac removes or alerts admins.
Shared Drives with over-broad access → Strac remediates in bulk.

4. Compliance & Audit Visibility

Regulatory teams use Strac to map and report data flows for GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC 2.
All findings are auditable and exportable to SIEM or GRC systems.

✨Example Use Cases Solved by Strac Google CASB

🧾 1. Detect and Restrict Publicly Shared Sensitive Files

Strac scans Google Drive, finds files with sensitive data (shared with “anyone with link”), alerts the admin, and sets permissions to “Restricted” automatically.

🛡️ 2. Scan Gmail for PII & PCI Data

Strac detects credit card or health data in outbound emails and can quarantine, redact, or alert instantly.

💻 3. Audit OAuth App Integrations

Discover every third-party app connected to Google Workspace. Identify risky or non-compliant apps and revoke access in seconds.

🗂️ 4. Classify Historical Data for DSPM

Strac analyzes millions of files historically to map where sensitive data resides — your Google Workspace DSPM foundation.

✨Core CASB Capabilities Powered by Strac

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✨Why Strac Is Different from Legacy CASBs

Strac solves Google CASB use cases while also offering broader SaaS DLP and DSPM — so you secure Drive, Gmail, Slack, Salesforce, and beyond from one platform.

How Strac Google CASB Works

Strac’s Google CASB operates in API mode — deeply integrated with:

• Google Drive API (for file content and permissions)
• Gmail API (for email and attachment inspection)
• Google Admin API (for user, group, and OAuth app visibility)

This design provides:

✅ Zero latency — no proxy routing
✅ Full visibility — across users, files, and apps
✅ Continuous coverage — both real-time and historical
✅ Granular remediation — auto-restrict, alert, label, or delete

🌶️ Spicy FAQs on Google CASB and Strac

Is Strac a Google CASB or a DLP solution?

Both. Strac is an API-driven CASB and DLP for Google Workspace, combining real-time and historical scanning, classification, and remediation into a single platform.

How is Strac different from proxy-based CASBs like Netskope or Skyhigh?

Those tools require network routing and agents. Strac uses direct Google APIs, so it deploys instantly, without latency or maintenance.

Can Strac protect Gmail and Drive in real time?

Yes — Strac’s API integration monitors and remediates in real time for new files and emails + historical scan for past emails

What types of sensitive data does Strac detect?

PII (SSNs, names, emails), PCI (credit cards), PHI (health data), and custom patterns based on regex or ML.

Is Strac SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI compliant?

Yes. Strac is fully SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI compliant, trusted by enterprises like Databricks and Western Union B2B.

Conclusion: Strac Is Your Google CASB

Strac’s Google CASB solution lets security leaders see, control, and protect everything inside Google Workspace — without proxies, agents, or complex setup.

• Real-time and historical DLP
• Context-aware classification (DSPM)
• Shadow IT visibility
• Automated remediation
• Compliance readiness

If you use Google Workspace and want to eliminate data leak risk, Strac is your CASB.