

Once renamed and placed, you can activate the Canarytoken by clicking on the Canarytokens menu item and selecting Activate token.ĭuring the activation process, you will be prompted with a couple of dialogue boxes, this will give the Canarytoken the bare minimum set of permissions to function. This will ensure that anyone who lands on the document will be able to open it and trip the token. It's a good idea to share the document and create a link with editor permissions for anyone. Note: If you'd like to spread the document around and get alerts when other people open it rather than just detecting your account being compromised. (Take note of your original reminder on Step 4.) You can now go ahead and rename and move the document to your requirements. Note: You will be prompted with the below pop-up, don't rename the document just yet and instead click OK.Ī copy of the document will now have been created on your Google Drive, Wait a moment and the content of the document will change to reveal the next steps. Here you will find the next steps to finalise the Canarytoken creation.Ĭreate a copy of the sheet to be imported into your Google Drive account by clicking on the File drop-down menu and then selecting Make a copy. You will now land on the Canarytoken template document. Go ahead and click on Create token when you are ready to generate the document.Ĭlick the Copy token button and paste the link in a new browser tab where you are signed in with the Google account from the previous step. Share with email: Enter the Google account email that would like to use to create the document. Reminder: Consider including the intended name of your document in the reminder. It may create confusion if a token generated an alert that reads “test" - and not remembering where you placed it. Make sure that your Reminder is as descriptive as possible, and will remind you in the future of where the token was dropped. Over time, you will deploy thousands of tokens all over the place. Select your preference of Docs/Sheets token from the list.

When the document is opened, an alert will be generated on your Console with the viewer's account username (if they are signed in) and localization of their browser.įollow the steps below to create a Google Docs/Sheets Canarytoken: Step 1: Description: Similarly to a Word or Excel document Canarytoken, Google documents can be tokenized too.
