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Security 4X for Google Identity

Automate and streamline security authorization for Google Identity environments

Modern organizations rely on Google Identity to deliver secure, frictionless authentication experiences across cloud and enterprise applications. The platform provides centralized user and group management, single sign-on using the OpenID Connect (OIDC) standard, multi-factor authentication, and robust access controls that integrate with Google Workspace and a wide range of third-party applications.

While Google Identity ensures strong authentication, identity verification, and secure access to devices and applications, Security 4X is a purpose-built solution for managing granular security within an application.

With the Security 4X Connectors for Google Identity, customers can combine the strengths of Google Identity with precise, fine-grained application security management. Use Security 4X to govern who has access to which content, features, and roles within an application. Manage thousands of users with coordinated, easy-to-modify policies that are meaningful to both business and IT.

Security 4X’s design, testing and publishing approach will help your team scale through control, automation, and auditing of granular application security rules across several important areas:

Day-to-day authorizations – Daily security additions and policy changes cost an enterprise time and money. Security 4X streamlines and delegates the authorization process that enables instant granting or removal of access within an application.

User Migration from tier-to-tier and platform-to-platform – Migrating security from one directory service to Google means changing or adding business application level security for the new Google user ids. No matter how small or large the requirement is, bulk user migration capabilities are built into Security 4X. 

Routine Security Updates – Whether granting users or groups access to new content, splitting policies or membership groups, or subdividing existing application content, Security 4X provides everything you need to manage these types of changes with ease. 

Delegate Security Administration – Security 4X allows non-technical administrative users to manage authorized security policy memberships on-demand. IT can delegate administrative authority to selected business administrators, defining the projects and policies they are permitted to manage.

The Security 4X Application Connector for Google Identity directly links granular application security rules with Google Identity Services and Google Workspace, streamlining application security management and authorization processes by 90% or more.

Security 4X Advanced Cognos Analytics Connector for Google Identity

The Security 4X Advanced Cognos Analytics Connector for Google Identity provides additional specialized integration capabilities that are purpose-built to support requirements for IBM Cognos Analytics customers (including IBM CloudPak for Data and IBM Cognos Analytics Certified Container customers):

  • Set Up Security in Advance – Cognos doesn’t easily accommodate security being applied to an OpenID user until the user has logged in. However, with the Security 4X Advanced Analytics Connector for Google, all user security and memberships can be set up in advance. Simply add one or many users to a policy and Security 4X will take care of all instructions and changes to Cognos. Whether users have completed the Google registration process or not, all security can be in place before the user logs into Cognos for the first time.
  • On-Demand User Security Changes – Allow business and IT to move one or multiple users between security policies on-demand with changes applied immediately while preserving live user status information from Google.
  • Bulk User Removal – Use Security 4X to automatically remove Cognos user access where users no longer have a valid Google status.
  • Cognos License Compliance Tracking – All changes to security policies or memberships in Security 4X will automatically track against Cognos License Compliance criteria, including reporting of available or used licenses, as well as policy membership counts.
  • Quick & Easy User Migration – Migrate users from previous namespaces to Google accounts, preserving all content from past namespaces and migrating all user permissions.