As an admin, you can increase email security for people in your organization with Enhanced Safe Browsing for Gmail. By default, Gmail scans incoming messages for possible spam, suspicious attachments, and suspicious links. With Gmail Enhanced Safe Browsing, Gmail takes additional steps to check messages for harmful content before delivering messages to recipients.
Use the Enhanced malware and phishing protection setting to turn on Gmail Enhanced Safe Browsing for everyone, specific organizational units, or specific groups. This setting is available only to admins and is turned off by default. People in your organization can see the Gmail Enhanced Safe Browsing setting in their Google Workspace account but they can’t turn it on or off. Learn more about information used by Gmail Enhanced Safe Browsing.
Important: If client-side encryption (CSE) is on, users’ Google Workspace data and activity is encrypted so isn’t available to Gmail Enhanced Safe Browsing. To use Gmail Enhanced Safe Browsing, turn off CSE in your Google Workspace account. Learn more about client-side encryption.
Turn Gmail Enhanced Safe Browsing on or off
Turn Gmail Enhanced Safe Browsing on or off for users.
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In the Admin console, go to Menu
Apps
Google Workspace
- Scroll to Enhanced malware and phishing protection and check the box to turn the feature on or off for your users.
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(Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:
- At the left, select the organizational unit.
- To change the Service status, select On or Off.
- Choose one:
- If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
- If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
Note: Learn more about organizational structure.
- To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.
- Click Save.
Information used by Gmail Enhanced Safe Browsing
Gmail Enhanced Safe Browsing works automatically in the background to provide faster, proactive protection against dangerous messages, links, and attachments. When you turn this feature on, it keeps your users safe when they’re signed into their Google Workspace account, and improves their security in Gmail.
When the Enhanced malware and phishing protection setting is on, Google uses information from your users’ Enhanced Safe Browsing (ESB) activity to improve Gmail security for your organization. Google also temporarily associates information from ESB activity to your users’ Google Workspace accounts. Google uses this information to improve Gmail's ability to detect and protect against malware and phishing for your users, and provides better protection from dangerous links across Google apps. Learn more about Enhanced Safe Browsing.
