Google Drive Sharing Restriction

Drive Sharing Restriction (Security Group)

Users subject to the Google Drive Sharing restriction will not be able to...

• Share personally owned files outside the PH TECH organization

• Share files stored in an (Internal) shared drive outside the PH TECH organization

Users subject to the Google Drive Sharing restriction will be able to...

Re-share a file containing sensitive data if owned by an unrestricted user

• This is the one use case the poses a potential security risk for sensitive PH TECH data.

• Restricted users will still be presented with a warning, but will be able to share the file outside of the PH TECH organization.

How to mitigate this Risk?

• If you are the owner of a file that contains sesitive data, be sure to un-check the following "advanced" security settings on the document before sharing with others.

*This risk exists becasue G Suite bases the ability to share each and every individual file on the file "owner's" security status only.