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Cyber resilience for Google Workspace

Secure, continuous coverage for Gmail and Drive at scale

Google Workspace is where work happens when users communicate in Gmail, marketing plans live in Drive, legal contracts are sent in Gmail, and day to day ideating happens in Docs. That concentration of value makes Workspace a prime target—and an easy place for a single bad moment to become an organization-wide incident. The uncomfortable truth is that “cloud” doesn’t mean “safe from loss.” The biggest threats to Workspace data range from ransomware to accidental (or malicious) deletion by users. When critical mailboxes or shared Drives are impacted, the organization faces immediate downtime. Security leaders need to respond to hard questions like: Can we restore? How far back? How quickly? Can we provide data control for regulators? Meanwhile, IT teams are expected to protect a fast-growing Workspace environment that can span regions and domains, without falling behind on backups or creating new administrative overhead. These challenges around protecting Google Workspace demand a new solution that delivers at scale and meets cyber resilience needs.

Figure 1 with Drive and Gmail

Figure 1: Day-to-day work is driven by Gmail and Drive. Cohesity Cloud Services (CCS) protects both and stores backups directly on Google Cloud.


Key Benefits

  • Restore business-critical emails and files fast
  • Reduce ransomware blast radius with immutability
  • Protect at scale across regions and domains
  • Preserve business context by restoring metadata
  • Lock down access with encryption, MFA, RBAC

The solution

Cohesity has a long-standing, deep partnership with Google Cloud to deliver purpose-built data protection that’s designed for how modern organizations actually operate. With Cohesity, protected Google Workspace content is stored on Google Cloud—helping you keep data residency aligned to your cloud strategy while reducing operational sprawl and avoiding yet another backup “somewhere else” to govern, secure, and explain during an audit.

Cohesity Cloud Services (CCS) provides cloud-native protection for key Google Workspace services, including Google Drive and Gmail, that’s built to deliver key business and cyber resilience outcomes. CCS is built for always-on protection, rapid recovery, and security so that accidental deletion, retention gaps, insider misuse, and ransomware disruptions don’t turn into prolonged outages, compliance exposure or painful, manual restores. It does so by:

Protecting the full scope of Workspace data

Coverage spans Gmail inboxes and data in Google Drives, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, and Scripts. This covers the content that keeps your organization moving and communicating on a day-to-day basis.

Keeping backups continuously current and operationally simple

Using seamless integration with Google Workspace APIs, CCS maintains a synthetic full backup and supports bulk backup of entire Workspace data stores. Practically speaking: IT doesn’t have to babysit complex jobs, and security doesn’t have to worry that yesterday’s change aren’t protected and recoverable.

Recovering quickly, flexibility, and with context intact

When something goes wrong, speed matters—but so does precision. You can restore granularly or in bulk, to either original or alternate locations.

  • For Gmail, recovery includes folders/labels and attachments.
  • For Drive, recovery supports shared Drive Collections and core Google file types.

Just as importantly, CCS protects and restores metadata like labels and permissions, helping ensure recovered content returns with access model and organizational meaning your teams rely on.

Enabling enterprise-grade security controls

Backups are the last line of defense only if they’re also protected like crown jewels. To ensure that backup data is always recoverable, CCS supports immutable storage, end-to-end encryption, multifactor authentication, and enhanced granular RBAC. These features are all essential best practices that reduces the risk of backup compromise, so you can recover confidently whenever needed.

See how Cohesity delivers leading Google Workspace protection

Cyber resilience is about reducing risk and having the confidence to recover quickly and confidently all while meeting compliance obligations. CCS for Google Workspace delivers these business-level priorities by bringing together continuous protection, immutability, fast recovery at any scale, and built-in security.

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