Cloud Identity: A Smart Way to Manage Gmail Users
Cloud Identity is a platform that helps organisations to get the flexibility of management according to their requirement over the Google server.
Till date, we knew that G Suite helps to manage and administer the users of an organisation from the Admin console panel. IDaaS ( Identity as a service ) also known as Cloud Identity helps an organisation to manage the users and groups from the administrative level without having a G Suite license.
There are many SMEs who do not own a business email solution and their employees use non-managed consumer accounts ( Gmail ) for official work. This limits the organisation to have centralised control over the users. Cloud Identity provides them with a platform to create free ids for all their users that can be managed from the Google Admin console.
Cloud Identity comes with two editions - Basic (free edition) and Premium (Paid edition).
Let’s see what are the feature differences among them:
Device Management
Feature | Basic ( Free) | Premium |
Mobile Management | Basic | Advance |
Device Inventory | yes | yes |
Passcode Enforcement | Basic | Advance |
Remote account and device wipe | Only account wipe | Both account and device wipe |
Security Policies | No | Yes |
Application Management | No | Yes |
Network Management | No | Yes |
Audit and Report | No | Yes |
MDM rules | No | Yes |
Yes | Yes | |
Apple, iOS | Yes | Yes |
Directory
Feature | Basic ( Free) | Premium |
Directory Management | Yes | Yes |
OUs and Groups | Unlimited | Unlimited |
User Lifecycle Management | Default user cap - 50 | Yes |
Admin Managed Groups | Yes | Yes |
Groups for Business | Yes | Yes |
Synchronization of active directory and LDAP directory with Google | Yes | Yes |
Admin roles and Privileges | Yes | Yes |
Secure LDAP | No | Yes |
Admin SDK/API | Yes | Yes |
Security
Feature | Basic ( Free) | Premium |
User Security Management | Yes | Yes |
2 - step verification enforcement Controls with Security key management and enforcement. | Yes | Yes |
Password strength alert and management | Yes | Yes |
Self - Service Password Recovery | Yes | Yes |
First Party Session management | No | Yes |
Google Security Center | No | Yes |
SSO & auto user provisioning
Feature | Basic ( Free) | Premium |
Auto User Provisioning | No | Yes |
Set up SSO using Google as an identity provider to access a pre-integrated list of third-party SAML apps | Yes | Yes |
Set up SSO using Google as an Identity provider to access custom SAML apps | Yes | Yes |
Set up SSO as a service provider using a third-party identity provider with Google. | Yes | Yes |
Reports
Feature | Basic ( Free) | Premium |
Admin console audit log | Yes | Yes |
Login Audit log | Yes | Yes |
Security Reports | All events | All events |
SAML audit Log | Yes | Yes |
Groups audit log | Yes | Yes |
Mobile audit log | No | Yes |
Account activity reports | Yes | Yes |
