Email Security for Google Workspace
Email Security for Google Workspace – Integrate Spambrella with Google Workspace. Automated synchronization built specifically for Proofpoint Essentials.
Spambrella is an innovative cloud-based technology with artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, deep content inspection, and advanced encryption capabilities. Spambrella delivers comprehensive, integrated protection for private data. Our broad set of email threat protection, compliance, and discovery solutions includes Targeted Attack Protection, Threat Response, Privacy DLP and Encryption, Enterprise Archive, and Governance. All of these services can be used for Google Workspace email protection.
What’s fueling the widespread adoption of Google Workspace in 2025?
Google Workspace boasts over 8 million paying customers, a number that continues to rise. It’s not just the large user base that stands out, but also the impact on productivity.
Top Google Workspace Statistics 2025 (Source: Exploding Topics)
- Google Workspace has more than 3 billion users
- Google Apps has a market share of over 50%
- Nearly 15 million websites use Google Workspace
- Almost 6 million US websites use Google Workspace
- Google Drive has more than 2 billion users
That’s around 11x more than nearest-competitor Microsoft Office 365’s 270 million active users.
Google’s email service, Gmail (over 1.5 billion users per month), has around 3x more monthly users than Microsoft Outlook (over 450 million).
From 6 million business customers to its global reach of 190 countries, you’ll get a clear picture of Google Workspace integrations and market dominance. Understanding this scale can help businesses gauge the platform’s reliability and potential for growth.
There are more than 8 million customers who pay for the Google Workspace service. (Source: Exploding Topics)
Google Workspace is utilized by over 190 countries worldwide. (Source: MarketSplash)
Google Workspace commands an impressive market share of 84.95%. (Source: MarketSplash)
Spambrella email security tools for Google Workspace for 2025
User synchronization with Spambrella/Proofpoint Essentials
Many will know that Proofpoint Essentials does not directly integrate with Google Workspace to sync user directories. Spambrella has developed an industry-first user directory sync for Proofpoint Essentials with Google Workspace. The integration can only be accessed if you are an MSP partner or customer of Spambrella for Proofpoint services. Spambrella continues to innovate with new tools and features to elevate your use of Proofpoint Essentials. Our ability to automate tasks for admins and end users simplifies and amplifies the user experience.
Can I use the Spambrella Proofpoint Essentials Google Workspace sync via my Distributor?
The Spambrella team is a development and global support partner to Proofpoint. Our Proofpoint distribution (pre- and post-sale) is extended to Cloud Marketplaces and some of the largest IT Distributors working with the Proofpoint Essentials service. If you wish to access the Spambrella, Proofpoint Essentials, Google Workspace Sync feature, contact your Distributor (if you are a Proofpoint partner). If you are an existing Proofpoint customer, contact your account manager or the Spambrella technical support team for more information. If you are not already a partner/customer of Spambrella for Proofpoint services, migrating your account so you can access the synchronization is a simple process.
Google Workspace Phishing Protection & URL Defense
Google Workspace puts phishing messages with bulk mail and spam into the end user’s email junk folder, which can be accessed through the Google Message Center. This forces the end users to make split-second security decisions – ‘Is this bulk mail that I signed up for or is this a targeted attack?’. Spambrella’s email security solutions for Google Workspace use advanced machine learning technology to detect phishing messages and perform a unique action on them.
Spam Detection, Effectiveness, and Accuracy
Spambrella uses Proofpoint’s advanced machine learning technology to granularly and more accurately detect spam (unsolicited bulk mail) and solicited bulk mail. This allows administrators to configure Google Workspace spam filtering policies so that end users have access only to specific types of spam: eg, a quarantine that contains only bulk mail, a quarantine that contains only adult spam, and a quarantine that only contains spam. The efficacy of the service and its detection rates are of the highest calibre and considered best of breed within the industry.
Outbound Email Data Loss Prevention
How much time does your organization spend manually creating Google Workspace data loss prevention policies? Or, does your organization require end users to manually trigger encryption? A recent survey by the Ponemon Institute showed that employees mistakenly send unencrypted confidential information to other recipients outside the workplace on a regular basis (63% of their respondents). It is more than likely time for you to consider a re-evaluation of your compliance policies.
Google Workspace Email Encryption
One of Spambrella’s major values for Google Workspace is the addition of user-level policy-based encryption. Spambrella provides controls to administrators to manually apply rules by content or recipient, which automates the encryption process on the fly. Smart identifiers (regex) are included within custom filters and can be applied inbound or outbound to secure email in Google Workspace. The smart identifiers range from financial information (Credit Card number detection) to HIPAA/Healthcare identifiers. For the EU market, Google Workspace users can make use of the GDPR smart filters.
FAQ's
Unfortunately, you can’t synchronize Proofpoint Essentials with Google Workspace directly. But you can easily pair Spambrella for Essentials with our User Directory Sync feature to get a full picture of your data without manually updating it from external directories.
Google Workspace may be extremely popular and user-heavy, but there’s no such thing as too much email protection. Spambrella’s set of security solutions can expand the built-in protective capabilities of Workspace with Targeted Attack Protection, Encryption, DLP Integration, Threat Response, Enterprise Archive, and other advanced solutions.
Native Google Workspace tools “put all eggs in one basket” when they detect spam and phishing messages, meaning that users are unable to distinguish between the two mail types. Spambrella’s methods are based on ML and fine-level detection to categorize spam and phishing into separate categories, making users aware of when they are under attack and when it’s just bulk mail.
You bet! Policy-based encryption is one of Spambrella’s most powerful DLP solutions for Google apps. With Spambrella, you can define everything you want encrypted before sharing via email and implement auto-encryption based on smart identifiers for inbound and outbound messages. Our DLP solutions can be configured to any information type, compliance requirements, and internal policies.
Administrators can review and filter quarantined emails using Spambrella’s dashboard. It’s easy to get the hang of and enables administrators to grant or deny users permissions based on their roles or the type of quarantined messages. From there, admins can also modify quarantine settings and retention policies.
Spambrella’s Google Workspace Sync is only available to MSP partners, Proofpoint customers, and Spambrella customers for Proofpoint Essentials.
Workspace rests on Google’s infrastructure and has a myriad of security features to make your workflows safer. The main features for which Workspace is trusted by over 3 billion users include reliable account-level controls, Gmail AI defenses, Zero Trust security, and malware protection. Plus, there’s always room for integrations, like Spambrella, to boost the security of your Workspace processes.
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Offloading the task of e-mail filtering to Spambrella has dramatically helped in the department's performance. The only drawback in our case is that the service is hosted outside of our territory and thus out of the legal jurisdiction.
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The reliability of the service and the level of protection that it provides. My spam levels immediately dropped to near zero.
There are almost no false positives. And I'm easily able to customize the level of protection with whitelists, blacklists, and sensitivity settings. I'm also a big fan of the antivirus and URL scanning features.
The service is great at filtering bad email as well as junk email out while allowing clean email though. I have used a few other options over the years and this is the best I have found. Clients sometimes have trouble configuring their settings to how they want it to be. Or tag emails as approved when they shouldn't and need IT interaction to resolve. Maybe just ease of use or having a more clear way for clients to resolve basics on their own.
I found spambrella to be easy to set up and has dramatically reduced the number of spam emails hitting our inboxes. It was easy to 'train' the software to release any genuine emails that were caught or add any spam that was not picked up.
Within a couple of weeks of use virtually no spam arrived to our mailboxes. Spam and phishing emails are a growing problem for everyone I'm sure. I now get a very low incidence of spam.
