Connecting and disconnecting your Google Workspace app

This article describes how to connect your Google Workspace application for Coro protection.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have:

A minimum subscription of Google Workspace "Business Standard".
Full administrator access for your Google subscription.
Enabled unrestricted API access to your Google Workspace service. See Allowing unrestricted API access in Google .

Allowing unrestricted API access in Google

Before Coro can connect to Google Workspace, make sure that you allow third-party applications such as Coro to connect and access data in your Google Workspace service. This is known as allowing unrestricted API access.

To allow unrestricted API access:

Sign in to your Google Workspace admin console ( https://admin.google.com ).
Go to Security > Access and data controls > API controls > MANAGE GOOGLE SERVICES :
From the list of Google services, locate Google Workspace Admin . Make sure Access is set to Unrestricted :
If access is NOT unrestricted, select Change access :
In the Change Access dialog, select Unrestricted: Any user-approved app can access a service :
Select CHANGE .

You can now proceed to connect Google Workspace to Coro.

Connecting to Coro

To connect Google Workspace for Coro protection:

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Make sure you have first allowed unrestricted API access in Google.

Sign in to the Coro console .
From the sidebar, select to access the Control Panel .
Select Cloud Applications :
On the Cloud Applications page, select Google Workspace , or select + CONNECT at the top:

attention
If you have no connected applications, Coro instead shows a banner page:

In this scenario, select CONNECT CLOUD APPS or + CONNECT to start the process. Then, select Google Workspace from the application selection dialog that follows.
In Step 1 of the Connect to Google Workspace dialog, select LOGIN to verify that you are logging in as a Google Admin:
Select a prelisted Google account or select the Use another account option:
Select Continue to grant Coro permission to your Google Workspace admin account.
In Step 2 of the Connect to Google Workspace dialog, register Coro as a Google API client:
Follow the instructions provided.
After verification, select CONFIRM .

Google Workspace is now connected to Coro and shown as Connected:

Cloud Applications page

Securing a connection

The status of a connection appears in Connection status. A status of Connected (not secure) indicates that Coro requires you to grant one or more permissions to connect.

Important

In new releases, Coro sometimes adds functionality that requires additional new permissions from a cloud application. This can cause a previously-connected application to appear with a status of Connected (not secure). In this scenario, be assured that your existing protection is not compromised, and that a full Connected status can be reinstated by following the procedure shown here to grant the additional permissions.

Select the status link to display the Last heartbeat, which is when Coro last checked the cloud application, and the current permissions.

To secure a connection to Google Workspace:

For the cloud application that has a status of Connected (not secure) , select the status:
In the Google Workspace connection status dialog, select GRANT PERMISSIONS :
Sign in to the application to accept the permissions.
The Google Workspace connection status dialog displays the new permissions:

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The changes take effect at the next heartbeat.

Disconnecting your Google Workspace account

To disconnect Google Workspace from Coro protection:

Sign in to the Coro console and go to Control Panel > Cloud Applications .
From the three-dot menu option adjacent to Google Workspace , select Disconnect .
In the confirmation dialog that appears, select YES, DISCONNECT .

Google Workspace is now disconnected from Coro protection.