Ketch and Google Workspace

Discover which third-party applications are actually connected to a Google Workspace environment, by reading the same authorization registry Google already maintains.

Google Workspace

About Google Workspace

Google Workspace unifies Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, and Meet into one productivity suite, and organizations routinely authorize third-party applications to connect through it for single sign-on and API access. That authorization registry is exactly where a privacy program can find systems in active use that a manual inventory might otherwise miss entirely.

Ketch connects to Google Workspace to read that registry directly.

Capabilities

How Ketch works with Google Workspace

The Ketch Google Workspace integration covers System Discovery.

Discovery

Scans Google Workspace for personal data using the connected credentials. Connection requires configuring a project in the Google Cloud Console and setting up OAuth authentication, scoped to reading the organization's connected application data.

With Ketch, teams can

  • Discover third-party applications connected through Google Workspace, including systems a privacy program might not have manually mapped
  • Bring Google Workspace's own authorization data into Ketch's data inventory for further review
  • Connect through a properly scoped OAuth project rather than broader administrative access

The gap

The problem this integration solves

Shadow IT, applications authorized by individuals or teams without a formal procurement or privacy review, is one of the hardest gaps for a privacy program to close manually:

01. Manually maintaining a list of every third-party application connected through Google Workspace doesn't scale and misses tools authorized without a formal review

02. Google Workspace already maintains a reliable record of connected applications, and not using that record means duplicating work Google has effectively already done

03. Broad administrative access for a discovery tool creates unnecessary security exposure compared to a properly scoped OAuth setup

Ketch resolves this by reading Google Workspace's own connected-application data directly, using a properly scoped OAuth project rather than broad access.

Why Ketch

Why teams choose Ketch for Google Workspace privacy compliance

Permissioning infrastructure that governs Google Workspace the same way it governs every other system in your stack — not a one-off connector bolted onto a banner.

  • Closes shadow IT gaps automatically

    Applications connected through Google Workspace for authentication get surfaced without a manual audit finding them first.

  • Scoped OAuth access

    Connection uses a dedicated Google Cloud project configured specifically for this integration.

  • Backed by enforcement precedent

    Regulators increasingly expect businesses to prove technical enforcement, not just describe it on paper, the same underlying expectation that applies to knowing which systems actually process personal data across an organization.

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