Case Study: The Guardian achieves visibility and control of Google Docs sharing with CloudLock

Guardian News and Media Selects CloudLock to Audit and Control Google Docs Sharing and Prevent Potential Data Loss

Guardian News & Media (The Guardian), a 2,400‑employee media organization, moved to G Suite and Google Docs to support widespread cloud collaboration but faced a core challenge: enabling frequent sharing with external writers and vendors while retaining control, visibility and security over document sharing permissions.

GNM deployed CloudLock to audit and control Google Docs sharing, giving the security team domain‑wide visibility, the ability to change collaborators, ownership and access rights, and real‑time exposure alerts. The solution reduced risk from external sharing, improved auditing and remediation workflows, and GNM is now rolling out exposure classification to empower end users to manage exposures directly.

The Guardian

Nick Woodcraft

Applications Manager