To get employees more involved in
securing their Apps accounts, Google has tried to simplify how they monitor
log-in activity and configure security settings.
It’s key for Apps users to get more
engaged in this manner, because that way they complement the efforts of their
company’s IT department and of Google itself.
“Security in the cloud is a shared
responsibility,” Eran Feigenbaum, security director at the Google for Work
team, wrote
Monday in a blog post. “By making users more aware of their security settings
and the activity on their devices, we can work together to stay a step ahead of
any bad guys,”
A new dashboard
gives users a snapshot of all the devices that have been used to access their
account in the past 28 days, including any currently signed in, along with
their approximate location, and displays prominently a link for changing their
password if they notice any suspicious activity. Users can also revoke a
device’s access to the account.
In addition, Google has rolled out a
wizard designed to guide users through the
steps to activate or adjust security settings and features. The wizard takes
into account domain settings and preferences established by IT administrators
for their employees, so that users are only able to make choices based preset
permissions.
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