Availability of features depends on your Google Workspace or Cloud Identity edition (details below on this page).
As a super administrator, you can access security center features, including the security dashboard, security health page, and security investigation tool. You can give other admins access to a specific security center feature—for example, just the security dashboard—by granting them the privileges for that feature.
Grant security center privileges to an admin
- Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
- Point to a custom administrator role.
Tip:If you need to create an admin role, go to Create a custom role . - Click View privileges Open privileges.
- Check the privileges for the security center area you want to grant access to.
Review Security center privileges below on this page. - Click Save.
Security center privileges
Some features in the security center—for example, data related to Gmail and Drive—are not available with Enterprise Standard, Frontline Standard, and Cloud Identity Premium.
Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus ; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus ; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus. Compare your edition
SecuritySecurity Settings
To open the Security page, from the Admin console Home page, click Security.
Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus ; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus ; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus. Compare your edition
ServicesSecurity CenterThis user has full administrative rights for Security CenterDashboards
Note:Some admins with the Reports privilege may have access to the security dashboard. For the security center, the Dashboards privilege replaced the Reports privilege. (The Reports privilege for non-security center reports in the Admin console isn’t changing.)
Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus ; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus ; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus. Compare your edition
To access the security health page, an admin needs all of these privileges:
- ServicesSecurity CenterThis user has full administrative rights for Security CenterSecurity Health
- Organizational UnitsRead
- UsersRead
In addition, the admin needs setting-specific privileges for the setting or group of settings you want to give access to. Review the table below, Settings reference for the security health page .
Supported editions for this feature: Frontline Standard and Frontline Plus ; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus ; Education Standard and Education Plus; Enterprise Essentials Plus. Compare your edition
ServicesSecurity CenterThis user has full administrative rights for Security CenterAudit & Investigation
For more information, go to Admin privileges for the investigation tool .
Settings reference for the security health page
Super admins can access security health settings. Other admins need super admins to grant them the additional privileges listed here for each setting or group of settings. If an admin doesn't have the required privileges for specific settings, those settings don’t appear on the security health page.
Note: Only super admins can access the security health settings for 2-Step Verification and security-key enforcement for users, as well as groups creation and management.
- Automatic email forwarding
- Comprehensive mail storage
- Bypassing spam filters for internal senders
- POP and IMAP access for users
- DKIM
- SPF record
- DMARC
- Approved senders without authentication
- Approved domain senders
- Email whitelist IPs
- Add spam headers setting to all default routing rules
- MX record configuration
- Attachment safety
- Links and external images safety
- Spoofing and authentication safety
- MTA-STS configuration
Supported edition: Enterprise Plus
- Groups creation and membership
Supported edition: Enterprise Plus
Only available for super admin accounts
- Sites sharing policy
- Google Workspace Marketplace applications usage
- Hangouts out of domain warning
Supported edition: Enterprise Plus
ServicesService Settings
Assigning the Service Settings privilege:
- Automatically checks the Settings box for Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar
- Makes their security health settings visible to the assigned admin
- Calendar sharing policy
Supported edition: Enterprise Plus
ServicesCalendarAll Settings
- File publishing on the web
- Access Checker
- Warning for out of domain sharing
- Drive sharing settings
- Google sign-in requirement for external collaborators
- Access to offline docs
- Drive add-ons
- Desktop access to Drive
Supported editions: Enterprise Plus and Enterprise Essentials Plus
ServicesDrive and DocsSettings
- Mobile management
- Blocking of compromised mobile devices
- Mobile inactivity reports
- Mobile password requirements
- Device encryption
- Application verification
- Installation of mobile apps from unknown sources
- External media storage
- Auto account wipe
Supported editions: Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus ; Enterprise Essentials Plus; and Cloud Identity Premium
ServicesMobile Device ManagementManage Devices and Settings
- 2-Step Verification for admins
- 2-Step Verification for users
- Security-key enforcement for admins
- Security-key enforcement for users
Supported editions: Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus ; Enterprise Essentials Plus; and Cloud Identity Premium
Only available for super admin accounts
