Supported editions for this feature: Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Plus. Compare your edition
As an administrator, you can use the security investigation tool to view and investigate live-state data about users in your organization. For example, using the Users data source, you can learn whether or not a user is enrolled in 2-Step Verification, whether or not 2-Step Verification is enforced for the user's organization, the ID of a suspended user, and more.
Run a search for user data
Your ability to run a search depends on your Google edition, your administrative privileges, and the data source. You can run a search on all users, regardless of their Google Workspace edition.
To run a search in the security investigation tool, first choose a data source. Then, choose one or more conditions for your search. For each condition, choose an attribute, an operator, and a value.
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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.
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Go to Menu
Security > Security center > Investigation tool.
Requires having the Security center administrator privilege.
- Click Data source and select Users.
- Click Add Condition.
Tip: You can include one or more conditions in your search or customize your search with nested queries. For details, go to Customize your search with nested queries. - Click Attribute
select an option.
For a complete list of attributes, go to the Attribute descriptions section. - Select an operator.
- Enter a value or select a value from the list.
- (Optional) To add more search conditions, repeat steps 4–7.
- Click Search.
You can review the search results from the investigation tool in a table at the bottom of the page. - (Optional) To save your investigation, click Save
Notes
- In the Condition builder tab, filters are represented as conditions with AND/OR operators. You can also use the Filter tab to include simple parameter and value pairs to filter the search results.
- If you give a user a new name, you will not see query results with the user's old name. For example, if you rename OldName@example.com to NewName@example.com, you will not see results for events related to OldName@example.com.
Attribute descriptions
For this data source, you can use the following attributes when searching log event data:
| Attribute | Description |
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| 2SV enforced for org | Whether or not 2-step verification is enforced for the organization |
| Change password at login | Whether or not users are required to change their password at login |
| Delegated administrator | Whether or not a user is delegated as an administrator |
| Email address of the user affected by the action | |
| Enrolled in 2SV | Whether or not a user is enrolled in 2-Step Verification |
| First name | First name of the user affected by the action |
| Last login | Last time the user signed in |
| Last name | Last name of the user affected by the action |
| Mailbox setup | Whether or not a mailbox is set up for a user |
| Organizational unit | The user's organizational unit |
| Super administrator | Whether or not a user is set up as a super administrator |
| Suspended ID | ID of a suspended user |
Take action based on search results
After you run a search in the security investigation tool, you can act on your search results. For example, you can run a search based on Gmail log events, and then use the tool to delete specific messages, send messages to quarantine, or send messages to users' inboxes. For more details about actions in the security investigation tool, go to Take action based on search results.
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