There's now a whole new way to log-in to your Google account

Date:
Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:27:30 +0000

Description:
Google has a few ways to make sure forgetting your work password isn't a complete disaster anymore.

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Google has announced its Cloud and Workspace accounts will now support single sign-on (SSO) from third-party identity providers in a welcome security
boost.

The company says it hopes the move will allow customers to more easily access Googles services using their existing identity systems.

Google has supported SSO via the widely available SAML protocol for more than a decade, however allowing multiple SAML 2.0-based identity providers should increase the tech giants appeal to IT admins across the globe. Google Cloud single sign-on

ON the companys Cloud blog , Google Workspace Identity Product Manager
Matthew Soldo explained how companies will often end up with multiple
identity providers, which could be down to mergers, acquisitions, or simply a variety of IT strategies. Soldo hopes that adding support for multiple identity providers will allow companies and workers to access Google Cloud without time-consuming migrations, which often result in complex transitions and issues.

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Future plans for the companys single sign-on operations include the addition of OIDC support - another protocol that can be used alongside SAML-based identity providers. This is expected to arrive later in 2022.=

In an effort to make its cloud services as appealing to business customers as possible, Google has been pushing swathes of security updates, including alerts for potentially hazardous changes made to Google accounts.

Despite rumours of new apps that could be on their way to Workspace accounts, Google has also been in the spotlight for the wrong reasons, having
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