Standards, regulations & certifications

To help you with compliance and reporting, we share information, best practices, and easy access to documentation. Our products regularly undergo independent verification of security, privacy, and compliance controls, achieving certifications against global standards to earn your trust. We're constantly working to expand our coverage.

This site contains information about Google's certifications and compliance standards it satisfies as well as general information about certain region or sector-specific regulations.

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SOC 3

Public report of controls over security, availability, and confidentiality.

SOC 3 is based on the existing SysTrust and WebTrust principles. Unlike SOC 1 and 2, SOC 3 reports for Google Cloud Platform and G Suite can be freely distributed to the public for general use. Google Cloud undergoes a regular third-party audit to certify individual products against this standard.

SSAE 18 / ISAE 3402 Type II

The Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) created the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 18 (SSAE 18) to keep pace with globally recognized international accounting standards.

SSAE 18 aligns closely with the International Standard on Assurance Engagements 3402 (ISAE 3402).

SSAE 18 and ISAE 3402 are used to generate a report by an objective third-party attesting to a set of statements which an organization asserts about its controls. The Service Organization Controls (SOC) framework is the method by which the control of financial information is measured.