Manage access to Google Workspace with OCI IAM
October 4, 2023 | 3 minute readOne of our key objectives for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Identity and Access Management (IAM) is to enable a secure and seamless access experience for our end users across their enterprise. For most organizations, that means seamless transitions across multiple cloud environments. A recent update to our Google Cloud integration enables OCI IAM to manage access for Google's suite of productivity and collaboration tools, called Google Workspace. This important step moves us toward enabling a single, unified solution for authenticating users and managing access to their hybrid and multicloud environments. This enhanced integration enables OCI IAM to initiate synchronization of users and groups from Google Workspace into OCI IAM.
Key benefits
The integration of Google Workspace with OCI IAM includes the following key benefits:
- Enhanced security and adherence to the principle of least privilege: OCI IAM’s integration with Google Workspace adheres strictly to the principle of least privilege. For example, it only requires read permissions on the Google side to synchronize users and groups to OCI IAM.
- Tailored data synchronization: Each customer has unique needs regarding identity data. You now have the flexibility to define group-based filters, enabling you to synchronize only the desired subset of Google groups (and users belonging to those groups) to OCI IAM. This feature reduces data duplication and streamlines identity data management.
- Automated synchronization: You can programmatically trigger a full synchronization of users and groups without having to navigate the Oracle Cloud Console. This function saves time and effort, enabling a seamless and efficient synchronization processes.
The integration between OCI IAM and Google Workspace uses the Google Cloud IAM service, utilizing open standards including System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM).
Flexibility and ease of use
OCI IAM's use of open standards provides identity administrators the flexibility to address today's business and regulatory requirements as well as new requirements that may arise down the road. It provides a single point of management for access across the extended enterprise, which includes seamless transitions across multiple cloud platforms and applications that you can deploy on-premises. Organizations that use both OCI IAM and Google Workspace can elect to configure either service as their authoritative source for identity lifecycle management.
The improved integration between OCI IAM and Google Workspace is configured with an easy-to-use guide that walks you through the configuration. In your OCI IAM identity domain, navigate to the Integrated Applications page, select Add application, and search for “Google Workspace Authoritative Sync” in our Application Catalog.
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Atul Goyal
Senior Principal Product Manager
Atul Goyal is an experienced Identity and Access Management domain expert specialized in Consulting, Solution Architecture, Product Management, Product Evangelism and Program Management. He is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Oracle, leading a team of Product Managers with a goal of developing next generation Cloud IDM platform that can help customers address their identity and application security challenges in the new business landscape where Cloud, Mobile and Agility have become part of core business processes and creating greater security vulnerabilities. The objective of this team is to do market research, competitive analysis for defining the product strategy and work with different stakeholders throughout the entire product life cycle from inception to adoption. In this role Atul has worked with 100s of Oracle customers, SI partners and outsourced vendors to make Oracle IAM successfully adopted in the market.
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