How to pass Google's Tier 3 CASA Assessment?

Hello everyone,

I am working on an app which uses Google’s Drive API, but I am stuck at the last step of the review process by Google - CASA Security Assessment Tier 3.

According to what I understood from their documentation, this assessment will require $3600 per year to get the certificate from a third party lab and without it, Google cannot approve the app.

This has proved to be a roadblock in my app development journey, as I have worked over the last few months to create and polish my app and complete all the review steps on monday.com’s side already, but I am unable to proceed due to this CASA Assessment requirement.

Does anyone have any experience in getting this certification? Is there any way to do this free of cost?

As this is my first app and I am not generating any revenue as of now, it is not at all feasible for me to pay this much for a security certification. And without this, it is likely that I’ll have to unfortunately abandon the app, which is pretty frustrating.

Appreciate any suggestions here.

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