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Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Workspace Audit? Google Workspace administrators, IT managers, educational institutions, enterprise organizations, and regulated industries. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 12 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: AppsEDU ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$950.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Angola, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belgium, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia and 68 more ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Reporting/Analytics - Threat Intelligence - Vulnerability Scanning ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Chat ## Category - [Cloud Security Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/31344/cloud-security/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Scheduled scans are a feature I rely on heavily. Configurations change as people adjust settings throughout the year, and weekly automated scans flag drift before it becomes an incident. This is invaluable in a school environment where multiple admins occasionally touch the same settings. For non Google Admin experts on my team, the plain language recommendations and references to CIS, NIST, and CISA frameworks give them the context they need to act with confidence. It also gives me strong material when I need to justify changes to non technical stakeholders or our board. The vendor team has been responsive and engaged. They clearly listen to schools, and that matters when you are trusting a tool with this level of visibility into your environment. > > **Cons**: Honestly, very little to flag. The one area I would love to see expand is integration with SIEM platforms and ticketing systems, so that flagged issues could flow directly into our existing incident and remediation workflows. That would close the loop nicely for organizations that already have established security operations processes. > > As Technology Director, I sit at the intersection of constant security pressure and the realities of a lean IT team. Workspace Audit is one of the few tools that genuinely earns its place in our stack. We run Google Workspace across a large student and staff population, and the Admin Console alone makes it very easy to miss critical settings or drift away from best practice over time. This tool gives me confidence that we are catching those drifts early, and it does so without demanding hours of my team's week. What I appreciate most is that it translates security posture into something I can actually report on. I can walk into a leadership meeting with a clear compliance score, a prioritized list of risks, and evidence of progress over time. That changes the conversation around cybersecurity at the institutional level. ----- ### "Turned a Security Audit Into an Actionable IT Conversation" — 5.0/5 > **Ali** | *March 29, 2026* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: The dashboard breaks everything down by category — Identity \& Authentication, API Controls, Drive and Docs, Gmail, Chat, Calendar, and more — each with a compliance percentage and issue count. That made it very easy to see at a glance which areas were well-configured and which needed urgent attention. The tool flagged critical issues I wouldn't have caught through the Google Admin Console alone, and the prioritization (Critical vs High) helped us focus our limited IT resources where they mattered most. I was also glad to see a "Resolved Issues" section that tracks what's been fixed, so we could show progress over time. For someone in my role(not a full-time admin, but someone advising the IT team) the plain-language recommendations made it possible to translate security findings into action without needing deep technical expertise. > > **Cons**: When the scan surfaces a large number of action items at once, it can feel daunting for a small IT team. A guided remediation roadmap or suggested sequencing beyond the top recommendations would help teams prioritize without feeling overwhelmed. I'd also welcome more benchmarking context specific to education institutions, so universities can compare themselves against peers rather than all organizations broadly. > > As an Educational Technology Consultant at a university, I used Workspace Audit to scan our Google Workspace for Education domain. The results were eye-opening; the tool surfaced several action items across more than a dozen security categories, giving me a clear picture of where we stood. More importantly, it gave me the evidence I needed to sit down with our system administrator and IT team and have a focused, data-driven conversation about what to fix first. ----- ### "Super helpful tool" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *March 27, 2026* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: - Dashboard is really clear and easy to navigate, everything’s broken down nicely - Handy links straight into Google Admin, which saves a lot of time - Gives practical suggestions on what to fix, not just highlighting issues - Quick and easy to run a scan and spot potential risks - Free trial is genuinely useful and gives you a good feel for the tool > > **Cons**: - Pricing is quite high, especially if you’re working with a tight budget - Ongoing cost might be hard to justify for some > > I recently had a free trial of Workspace Audit to scan our Google Workspace tenancy and identify potential security improvements. It was very simple to set up and run a scan of the environment, with pretty much instant results. The tool makes it easier to see what settings need changing to become a more secure environment. With so many settings available within Google Admin, it's very easy to overlook and/or miss important configurations. The dashboard is what makes this tool even more user-friendly. It presents findings in a clear way and categorises issues by area and severity. This made it easy to prioritise what needed attention. I also found the direct links into Google Admin particularly helpful, saving time when locating and updating specific settings. Workspace Audit appears to be a very powerful health check tool that provides immediate clarity on where your domain stands against best practices. It highlights misconfigurations and gives actionable steps to resolve them, ultimately helping to strengthen overall security. Not all areas of Workspace Audit are available for trial users, so I can't comment on those. But from demos I have seen of these areas, these features look like they would add even more value. Overall, the trial experience was very positive and demonstrated real value, particularly for admins looking to improve security quickly and efficiently. However, while the tool is clearly powerful, I feel the pricing model may put it out of reach for some. In our case, current and upcoming budgets are tight. That being said, we will definitely consider this tool in future budget planning, as it adds clear value and gives greater visibility into your tenancy than Google Admin alone. ----- ### "An invaluable real time security tool for any school" — 5.0/5 > **Geoff** | *March 26, 2026* | Primary/Secondary Education | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Workspace audit is very easy to use, The technical team hopped on a call and we got set up within 10 minutes. They then walked me through all the features. They have also been responsive to improvement requests and are constantly adding new features. They added the ability to accept risks after user feedback. The ability to audit your google workspace quickly and cost effectively is important for any security conscious organisation. The ability to run scheduled scans or scan immediately is super useful as is the direct link to the google documentation or the place in the admin console where you need to make the changes > > **Cons**: At first glance you get a scare when you see your initial health score or the language used i.e. 62 non compliant issues. Once you figure out how the app works and what these terms mean it makes it less confrontational. I wouldn’t directly show the app score to my director or manager without explaining how it works. Perhaps some less confrontation language or an explanation that it is not the end of the world if you have non compliant issues. Sometimes you implement a recommendation that effects the users ability to use an app or do their work for example we blocked app from using google classroom to sign in and that meant no one in our organisation could use Sketchup. It would be good to have a list of possible ramifications of changes. > > As an International school tech director I am often strapped for time and under the pressure of financial constraints. AppsEdu workspace audit hits the sweet spot on both of these pressure points. It is super easy to use and allows me to check how secure our environment is. Weekly scans let my team know when someone has made a change that could effect our security. While this tool doesn’t replace an in person audit it lets me sleep better know that we can constantly check our security settings and tweak things as we go ----- ### "If I hadn't already bought a tool, I'd have bought this straight away" — 5.0/5 > **Dan** | *April 1, 2026* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The UI/UX layout made all of your most important issues always visible. I never lost site of the alerts that needed my focused attention. Each issue was backed by at least one to multiple best practice and framework references to put the confidence into why you would be making a change, and why it was for the better, this would make life easier for explaining to a Change board. > > **Cons**: I only undertook the trial and an extended one after that, but that allowed me to actually run a demonstration to our education Foundation. One of the aspects that I missed, were the Risk Centers, which after a few online workshop/meetings, I can see the live risks as they would occur in my environment. I was unfortunately not able to assess this section against my own infra to understand the results more closely > > I inherited a Google environment that was missing some very key changes to the default configuration, that would have made a few incidents we had a lot easier to either block, or manage. This tool not only gave me a direction for a more refined permissions approach, but also allowed me to rewrite some user policy with respect to User permissions. We already made an investment into another Workspace tool, that is far less approachable, and requires a higher version level to leverage some of the promises. If I was in a comparison situation for my own management needs, I would have steered directly to the Workspace Audit tool instead, as it works on core configuration settings that prevent other issues I would need to fix later ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/1084270/Workspace-Audit?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ca/software/1084270/Workspace-Audit) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | ----- ## Structured Data