How to govern Inventory in Google Workspace
A step-by-step guide to governing Inventory in Google Workspace with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Inventory in Google Workspace means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Google Workspace with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Inventory.
Steps
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Inventory Google Workspace
Connect Google Workspace and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Inventory in Google Workspace to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Google Workspace reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Google Workspace controls for Inventory
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Google Workspace catalog on the Google Workspace connector page.
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Google Workspace Tenant
Top-level Google Workspace tenant; root container for users, groups, drives, and Chat spaces.
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Google User
Individual Google Workspace user account.
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Google Org Unit
Organizational unit within the Google Workspace tenant.
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Google Shared Drive
Shared (Team) Drive in Google Drive.
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Google Drive File
Any file in Google Drive; discriminated by mime type.
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Google Doc
Google Docs document (mimeType=application/vnd.google-apps.document).
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Google Sheet
Google Sheets spreadsheet (mimeType=application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet).
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Google Folder
Google Drive folder (mimeType=application/vnd.google-apps.folder).
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Google Site
Google Site (mimeType=application/vnd.google-apps.site).
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Google Group
Directory group in Google Workspace.
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Google Chat Space
Google Chat space (rooms, group conversations).
