Google Drive

How to configure a Google Drive connection to scan files and folders.

Create OAuth2 Credentials

• Create a Project in Google Cloud Console:

  • Go to the Google Cloud Console

  • Create a new project or select an existing project

  
• Enable the Google Drive, Drive Labels and Admin SDK API:

  • In the Google Cloud Console, navigate to APIs & Services > Library

  

  • Search for "Google Drive API" and click on it

  

  • Click the "Enable" button to enable the Google Drive API for the project

  • Search for "Admin SDK API" and click on it

  

  • Click the "Enable" button to enable the Admin SDK API for the project

  • Search for "Drive Labels API" and click on it

  

  • Click the "Enable" button to enable Drive Labels API for the project

• Create OAuth 2.0 Credentials:

  • In the Google Cloud Console, navigate to the APIs & Services > Credentials

  

  • Click "Create credentials" and select "Service account"

  

  • Enter a name in the Service account name field and click CREATE AND CONTINUE

  

  • Under Grant this service account access to the project, select role as Owner and click DONE

  

  • Select the newly created service account and click Keys > Add Key > Create new key

  

  • Make sure the key type is set to json and click Create

  

  • The new private key pair is generated and downloaded to the machine. Note the values of private_key, client_email and client_id

Delegate domain-wide authority to your service account

• From your domain's Admin console, go to Main menu menu > Security > Access and data control > API controls

• In the Domain wide delegation pane, select "MANAGE DOMAIN-WIDE DELEGATION"

• Click Add new

• In the Client ID field, enter the client ID obtained from the service account creation steps above

• In the OAuth Scopes field, enter a comma-delimited list of the scopes required for the application

• Use the below scopes:

  For scanning

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.user.readonly

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.directory.group.readonly

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly

  For revoke permissions

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive

  For tagging

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.admin.labels

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.metadata

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.labels

  For Extended Streaming Events

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/admin.reports.audit.readonly

• Click Authorize

Provide required Admin roles to a user

In order to perform a scan using Google Drive connector, it needs a user with the below Admin roles assigned:

• Services Admin

• User Management

• Groups Reader

They can be added/checked here for the UserID which will be used for impersonation: admin.google.com > Directory > Users > Assign roles > add Services Admin, User Management, and Groups Reader roles, as follows:

• Navigate to Admin console

• Select Users under Directory from the left menu

• Select a user you want to use for scanning

• Navigate to User details -> Admin roles and privileges

• Edit the roles, and enable:

  • Services Admin

  • User Management

  • Groups Reader

  
• Click on Save

Note: It might take few minutes before the changes are affected.

Configuring Google Drive connector in Dashboard

• Navigate to Administration -> Data Sources -> Google Drive -> New scan

• Enter the details of the OAuth2 credentials obtained previously, also add the user id (in the form of [e-mail]) of the user you assigned roles in the above steps

  
• Click on the Folder icon in Path to select a particular user's drive to scan, or leave the path as empty to scan all users

• Save the configuration

• Once the configuration is saved, click on the icon on the right and select Start file scan to begin scanning

• The scan results can be viewed under Dashboard -> Enterprise Search

File tagging

Prerequisites

Default Getvisibility labels need to be created in Google Drive. This process is described below:

• Turn on Drive labels for the organization

  1. In the Google Admin Console (at admin.google.com)

  2. Go to Menu Apps > Google Workspace > Drive and Docs
  3. Click Labels

  4. Select Turn Labels On

  5. Click Save

• Create Drive labels:

  1. Go to the labels manager at https://drive.google.com/labels.

     Requires having the Manage Labels privilege.

  2. Click New label.

  3. To create one badged label:

     1. Choose a badged label

     2. Choose to start from an example, or from scratch.

     3. Update the title as Classification.

     4. (Optional) Add a description or a learn more URL that points to internal documentation about the label.

     5. Customize options, and assign a colour.

     
  4. To create a standard label:

     1. Two standard labelsneed to be created; Distribution and Compliance

     2. Click a standard label template or click Create New.

     3. Enter or update the label name.

     4. (Optional) Add a description.

     5. Choose whether the label is copied when the file is copied.

     6. Add a field.

  

  
• Publish the labels

  1. If it’s not open already, open the labels manager (https://drive.google.com/labels) and click the label.

  2. Review the label and any fields.

  3. Click Publish.

  4. Confirm that the lable will be published by clicking Publish.