Granting access to Gmail

This section describes how to grant Cloud App Security access to Gmail. During the access grant, a service account is created for Cloud App Security to access your Gmail environment.

Cloud App Security accesses Gmail through the OAuth 2.0 flow.

Note

Cloud App Security allows only administrators assigned to the default Global administrator role to grant access. For details about Cloud App Security role-based access control, see Administrator and role.

Cloud App Security supports two protection modes for Gmail. For more details, see Protection modes for email services. Each mode requires separate access grant.

Protection Mode

Access Grant

API-based Protection

See Granting access to Gmail.

Inline Protection

See Granting access to Gmail (inline mode).

Note

Currently, Inline Protection only protects inbound messages for Gmail.

Currently, Inline Protection only protects inbound messages for Gmail.(This feature is not provided to Japanese users)

You can choose to have both or either of the protection types for your Gmail service based on your requirements.