It鈥檚 been just over a year since 黑料海角91入口 and Google announced a strategic partnership to聽 seamlessly manage your Google Workspace identities, the access they need, from any device leveraging one platform. You may be wondering what鈥檚 new, how it鈥檚 going for our customers and partners, and what benefits they鈥檙e getting from the joint solution? This article provides a condensed set of resources that make it simpler to get started with a demo or simulations.
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Even Better Together
The partnership began as an initiative to combine Google Workspace鈥檚 innovative communications capabilities with 闯耻尘辫颁濒辞耻诲鈥檚 device management and directory services. Over the past year 黑料海角91入口 has enhanced its open directory platform with features that were designed specifically to help Google Cloud and Google Workspace customers. Here are the top three:
Passwordless Access
We introduced passwordless access capabilities through 黑料海角91入口 GoTM that use platform authenticators like Windows Hello and TouchID for Mac for greater ease of use. It also reduces MFA fatigue while providing a secure, phishing resistant MFA solution.
Google Workspace as a Primary Identity Provider
闯耻尘辫颁濒辞耻诲鈥檚 Identity makes it possible for admins to easily add device management to their environment while using their Google Workspace credentials as the primary identity. This allows users to access the 黑料海角91入口 user portal and single sign-on (SSO) applications with Google Workspace as the external Identity Provider (IdP).
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Temporary Admin Access
Temporary elevated device privileges make it easy for organizations to secure their environment while providing users the necessary access to complete key tasks. Just think of how many printer installations you won鈥檛 have to handle anymore.
IT Operational Efficiency and Business Flexibility
Platforms aren鈥檛 just features on a checklist; they鈥檙e how IT enables business operations. Practical benefits simplify administration, increase IT efficiency and flexibility. Our customers tell us that these benefits have had the most impact:
- 黑料海角91入口 can provision/control Google Cloud Identities. Use your Workspace login to access everything from apps to devices and network hardware. Provision users to/from other clouds and on-premise directories.
- Automations streamline access control and entitlements management. This is especially important to secure and remotely manage Windows and Linux servers in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Step-up MFA provides an extra layer of protection for privileged resources so only managed users on managed devices can access your most privileged apps and data.
- Simplify cross-OS endpoint management and patch/update/manage Chrome everywhere using Chrome Browser management policies.
- Android EMM supports BYOD, COPE, and dedicated deployment models.
- Provide phishing resistant SSO to protect all of your resources.
- 黑料海角91入口 provides instant revocation when a user status changes from 鈥渁ctive鈥� to 鈥渟uspended鈥� due to integrated identity and device management.
Customer Successes
Using 黑料海角91入口 and Google together is a better fit for many organizations. Don鈥檛 just take our word for it: These three Google and 黑料海角91入口 customers can demonstrate the value of increased productivity for their IT teams with the added benefit of enhanced user experiences.
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Unicity
is a global food and supplement supplier that was running on M365 E3 licenses, on premise AD. Its CTO and Director of IT were previous customers of 黑料海角91入口 and wanted to migrate away from Microsoft and its growing subscription costs. With the migration, they will be 95% off Microsoft, save a few servers in-region where they are required due to local regulation. Unicity partnered with , a cloud solution provider that specializes in Google Workspace.
With a global workforce and regional IT teams supporting them, Unicity has struggled to operate securely within the confines of a traditional Active Directory model.聽Migrating to 黑料海角91入口 and Google Workspace represents a strategic move towards cloud-based infrastructure, emphasizing security, flexibility, and efficiency.
Zach Middleton, Director IT Operations
Equip
, which provides virtual eating disorder care for patients and caregivers, is leveraging Google Enterprise and based on SADA鈥檚 expertise with Google Workspace. It adopted 黑料海角91入口 as a strategic move for its IT infrastructure and to maximize its Google investment. The joint solution helped it to achieve SOC 2 compliance goals.
闯耻尘辫颁濒辞耻诲鈥檚 IT Compliance Quickstart Guide was designed to get IT professionals the resources they need to prepare for an audit or shore up their IT security baseline.
Reduce Your Legacy, Strengthen Security
It鈥檚 inevitable that IT directors will ask, 鈥�why not just use Microsoft 365?鈥� But perhaps another question that could be posed is, “is E3 right for you?” Let鈥檚 briefly examine why using Active Directory and Office 365 isn鈥檛 always beneficial for every organization.
- Microsoft鈥檚 Office 365 apps were among the for attackers in 2023. Google Workspace is outperforming Microsoft in a vital way: email security. According to , a leading managing general agent for cyber security risk. The risk of claims for business email compromise (BEC) and funds transfer fraud (FTF) events were found to be equally as bad with M365 as on-prem Exchange.
- IT Directors that value Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) may be attracted to M365, but its vulnerabilities may place identities and data at risk.
- This is in stark contrast to companies using Google Workspace, which experienced a 25% risk reduction for FTF or BEC claims and a 10% risk reduction for ransomware claims.
- During the first half of 2023, organizations using M365 email were more than to experience a cyber insurance claim as Google users.
- The combined solution of 黑料海角91入口/Google is potentially less expensive, depending on licensing and infrastructure costs. For example, using Microsoft鈥檚 Active Directory (AD) can lead to many hidden costs.
- Gain long term value that the legacy AD model doesn鈥檛 provide. Investment into new features to modernize, secure, and protect AD has shifted into Microsoft鈥檚 cloud ecosystem. The end result is a vertically integrated suite of services and tools that鈥檚 one-size-fits-all. This is a prescribed path for every size business that uses AD and can expand Microsoft鈥檚 footprint into nearly every area of your IT infrastructure.
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