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Scrub Tide

Your Google Drive files shared outside the company, finally under control.

Scrub Tide finds and removes the external shares in your Google Drive: a dashboard for administrators, a clear list for every user.

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The Scrub Tide “My shares” page (interface in French): a user's files shared outside the company, each with buttons to remove the share, approve it or move the file to the bin.
In one minute

Scrub Tide, for real.

53-second video with a French voiceover and English subtitles. Screenshots of the tool with sample data.
The problem

You don't know who can see your files.

Nobody really does. A share takes two clicks to create, and it never ends on its own.

Links open to anyone

“Anyone with the link”: a file forwarded once, and it travels around without anyone knowing where.

Personal addresses

A contractor, a former colleague, a Gmail address: they still have access, long after the project ended.

Entire folders

A share set on a folder opens everything inside it, including whatever has been filed there since.

The four traps in detail: our article on external sharing.

What Scrub Tide does

See, sort, remove. Without opening a single file.

Scrub Tide administration dashboard (interface in French): number of external shares, shares awaiting review, files concerned and users with shares, then the breakdown of shares by category, from links open to anyone to partner domains.
For administrators

The dashboard

  • How many files are shared outside, by domain, organisational unit, group and user.
  • Six risk levels, from internal to open to anyone with the link.
  • The trend over time, from 7 days to 12 months.
Scrub Tide “My shares” page (interface in French): the list of a user's files shared outside the company, each with its recipient, its category and buttons to remove, approve or move to the bin.
For every user

“My shares”

  • A tidy list of the external shares of their own files.
  • Three actions: remove the share, move the file to the bin, or approve a legitimate share.
  • A weekly summary email so nothing slips through.
Scrub Tide screen for removing every share with gmail.com (interface in French): the number of shares and files concerned, and a field where the administrator retypes the domain name to confirm.
In one go

Cut off a whole domain

  • A ranking of the external domains receiving the most shares.
  • “Remove all” cuts every share with a domain at once.
  • Explicit confirmation, full log, “Undo” button.

Screenshots of the tool (French interface) with sample data.

How it works

Three steps, and the clean-up runs itself.

  1. 01

    Install

    The Google Workspace administrator installs Scrub Tide for their organisation.

  2. 02

    Authorise

    They authorise Scrub Tide in the Admin console, following the guide shown in the app.

  3. 03

    Clean up

    Scrub Tide takes stock every week. Everyone removes, approves or undoes what they did.

On the Scrub Tide “My shares” page (interface in French), one click on Remove cuts the anyone-with-the-link share of the “Seminar poster”: the file disappears from the list and a message confirms the removal can be undone for 30 days.
Removing a share, for real: one click, and it can be undone for 30 days.

Bonus: a single Drive label is enough to exclude a file from the review, or to schedule the date its share is removed.

Trust

We touch the shares. Not your files.

Never your files

Scrub Tide never reads your files: only their metadata and sharing information.

Everything can be undone

Every action is logged and can be undone for 30 days (adjustable).

On the owner's behalf

Actions are carried out on behalf of the file's owner, which shows up in Google's audit logs.

Everyone in their own space

Each organisation's data is kept isolated from everyone else's.

Fancy seeing what's lying around in your Drive?

It all happens on scrubtide.app. And if you'd rather look at it together, let's talk for 30 minutes.

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