Device management security checklist

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These security all-time practices are for administrators of Google Workspace and Cloud Identity.

As an administrator, you can help protect work data on users' personal devices (BYOD) and on your organisation's company-owned devices by using Google endpoint management features and settings. Other security features provide stronger business relationship protection, granular access control, and data protection. Review the following checklist to make certain that yous're set up to encounter your organisation's device security goals.

All mobile devices

Require passwords

Protect data on managed mobile devices by requiring that users set a screen lock or countersign for their device. For devices with advanced management, yous tin also set the password type, strength, and minimum number of characters.

Set password requirements for managed mobile devices

Lock downwards or wipe corporate data from missing devices

When a device goes missing or an employee leaves your organization, the work information on the device is at risk. You tin wipe a user's work account from the device, including all their work data. For devices with advanced direction, you tin can wipe the unabridged device. This characteristic isn't bachelor with the free version of Cloud Identity.

  • Remove corporate data from a mobile device
  • Lock a device and reset its password

Manage Android apps used for work

Prevent unauthorized access to Android apps used for work by adding them to the Spider web and mobile apps list to brand the apps managed. You tin can strength install managed security apps and remove managed apps from lost or stolen devices. Managed apps are automatically removed from a device when a user removes their work account.

Manage mobile apps for your organization

Mobile devices nether advanced direction

Require device encryption

Encryption stores information in a form that can be read only when a device is unlocked. Unlocking the device decrypts the data. Encryption adds protection if a device is lost or stolen.

Require device encryption

Apply device restrictions​

You can restrict how users share and backup information on Android and Apple iOS devices. For example, on Android, you lot can forestall USB file transfers and on iOS devices, yous can terminate backups to personal cloud storage. Yous can also restrict access to some device and network settings. For example, yous can plow off the device's photographic camera and prevent Android users from changing their Wi-Fi settings.

  • Use settings for Android mobile devices
  • Apply settings for iOS mobile devices
  • Employ advanced settings

Block compromised devices

Stop a user's work account from syncing with Android and Apple iOS devices that might be compromised. A device becomes compromised when it'due south jailbroken or rooted—processes that remove restrictions on a device. Compromised devices can point a potential security threat.

Block compromised devices

Automatically cake Android devices that don't comply with your policies

When a device falls out of compliance with your organization'south policies, you tin automatically block it from accessing piece of work data and notify the user. For instance, if yous enforce a minimum password length of vi characters and a user changes their device password to 5 characters, the device is not compliant considering it doesn't adhere to your countersign policy.

Set device management rules

Enable Auto Account Wipe for Android devices

Automatically remove work business relationship data and managed apps from an Android device when it's inactive for a specified number of days. This reduces the take chances of information leaks.

Use settings for Android mobile devices

Manage iOS apps used for work

Forbid unauthorized access to iOS apps used for work past adding them to the Spider web and mobile apps listing and making the apps managed. You can remove managed apps from lost or stolen devices. Managed apps are automatically removed from a device when a user removes their work business relationship.

Manage mobile apps for your organisation

Block potentially dangerous Android apps

By default, Google blocks non-Play Shop apps on Android mobile devices from unknown sources. Apps are also automatically scanned, and blocked if unsafe, by Google Play Protect. These features reduce data leak, account breach, data exfiltration, data deletion, and malware risks. Make certain Block app installation from unknown sources is turned on and Allow users to turn off Google Play Protect is turned off for all your users.

Apply settings for Android mobile devices

Computers that admission work information

Turn on endpoint verification

When laptops and desktops are managed with endpoint verification, you tin use context-enlightened admission to protect your system'southward data and get more data almost the devices that access that data.

Plough on endpoint verification

Restrict Google Drive for desktop to visitor-owned devices

Drive for desktop allows users to work on Drive files on their Mac or Windows reckoner outside a browser. To limit the exposure of your organization'south data, you lot can allow Drive for desktop to run on only visitor-owned devices listed in your inventory.

Restrict Drive for desktop to company-owned devices

Set up Google Credential Provider for Windows (GCPW)

Permit users sign in to Windows 10 computers with their work Google Business relationship. GCPW includes two-Pace Verification and sign-in challenges. Users can too access Google Workspace services and other single sign-on (SSO) apps without the need to re-enter their Google username and password.

Overview: Google Credential Provider for Windows

Restrict user privileges on visitor-endemic Windows computers

You lot tin can control what users tin can practise on their company-owned Windows x computers with Windows device management. You tin can fix users' administrative permission level for Windows. Y'all can likewise utilize Windows security, network, hardware, and software settings.

Enable Windows device management

Apply Windows settings

More security options for all devices

Prevent unauthorized admission to a user'due south account

Require boosted proof of identity when users sign in to their Google Business relationship with 2-Step Verification (2SV). This proof could be a physical security cardinal, a security key built in to the user's device, a security code delivered by text or telephone call, and more.

When Google suspects that an unauthorized person is trying to access a user's business relationship, we nowadays them with an extra security question or claiming. When you use Google endpoint management, nosotros might enquire users to verify their identity with their managed mobile device (the device they normally use to access their work business relationship). Extra challenges significantly reduce the chance of an unauthorized person breaking in to user accounts.

  • Set up ii-Step Verification
  • Verify a user's identity with a login challenge

Use Context-Aware Admission to conditionally permit access to Google apps

You tin fix different access levels based on a user'due south identity and the context of the asking (country/region, device security status, IP address). For instance, you lot can block mobile device access to a Google app (web and mobile) if the device is outside a specific state/region, or if the device doesn't meet your encryption and password requirements. As another example, you can allow contractor to access Google web apps only on visitor-managed Chromebooks.

Context-Aware Access overview

Command the apps that can access Google Workspace data

Set which mobile apps are managed by your arrangement. You tin also specify which services an app tin can access with app access control. This prevents malicious apps from tricking users into accidentally granting access to their work data. App access control is device-doubter and blocks access past unauthorized apps on both BYOD and company-endemic devices.

  • Set upwardly managed apps for Android devices
  • Recommend and manage iOS apps
  • Command which third-party & internal apps access Google Workspace information

Identify sensitive information in Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Gmail

Protect sensitive data, such every bit authorities-issued personal IDs, by setting Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. These policies can notice many mutual data types, and you can as well create custom content detectors to meet business-specific needs. DLP protects data at the source and awarding level, and applies across devices and access methods.

Protect sensitive information using DLP


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