Faculty Firewall

A free Google Workspace security audit for school districts.

A printable checklist of 14 checks, most of them in the Google Admin console. Each one shows where to click and what good looks like, so you can see where your district stands in an afternoon.

What’s inside

  • Accounts. Dormant accounts, staff who left, super admins and shared logins.
  • Sign-in. 2-Step Verification enrollment and enforcement, and how your admins sign in.
  • Email. Gmail safety settings, SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and where staff send reports.
  • Sharing and apps. Sharing outside the district, third-party app access and the Alert center.
  • People. The check most audits skip: whether staff have practiced spotting phishing.

Written for Google Workspace for Education districts. It’s free, it’s a two-page PDF, and there’s nothing to install. Prefer the full walkthrough? Read the guide.

Built by a working K-12 technology director. I’m Jason Saltmarsh, EdD. I wrote this checklist for tech directors who need a clear place to start, without buying another tool.