Security News > 2021 > June > A Google Drive security update will break some of your shared links
An upcoming security update for Google Drive will increase the security of your shared documents but likely break many of your shared links.
Yesterday, Google began emailing Google Workspace admins about a new security update for Google Drive rolling out on September 13th, 2021, to make file sharing more secure.
"We're releasing a security update which will apply to some Drive files. This will make Google Drive files more secure by updating their links and may lead to some new file access requests," explained Google in a new blog post.
This update will cause any Google Drive links that you previously shared on websites, social media, or elsewhere to no longer work as they will not contain the required resource key.
Google is rolling out the Google Drive security update over the next few months in three phases to give Google Workspace admins enough time to prepare.
They can then go to Apps > Google Workspace > Drive and Docs, click Sharing settings, and then Security update for files, as shown below, to configure how they want to apply the update.