Google IDs are creeping into your identity management

With Android 5.0 Lollipop now available for most widely used Android smartphones and tablets, you can now manage those devices at a higher level of security, via Android for Work. Google uses Google accounts as the mechanism for applying discrete policies to content and applications on Android.

But doing so also requires that both the users and IT itself have Google accounts, which starts to make Google accounts part of your identity management equation — even if you are trying to centralize on Microsoft’s Active Directory or similar systems.

That’s not necessarily bad, but it is a new wrinkle in the larger issue of identity management at enterprises, which is also evolving beyond single sign-on, the reason most IT organizations use it.

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