New Security Dashboard For Google Accounts

Google for Work users can access a Devices and Activity dashboard to spot suspicious logins and a new security wizard to help navigate security settings.Google introduced two new security features this week for Google Apps users to help them monitor their accounts for suspicious activity. The updates — a Devices and Activity dashboard and a security wizard — give Google for Work users more transparency into and control over their settings.
Users will now be able to monitor a comprehensive set of details including the last time their account was accessed, location from where their account was accessed, as well as the web browser that was used to open their account.Eran Feigenbaum, security director at the Google for Work team, said admins could quickly change passwords and lock their accounts access if any suspicious activity was noticed.

“To make your job a bit easier, today we’re announcing new security tools to help Google Apps users take more control of their security online,” Feigenbaum wrote Monday in a blog post.

Devices and Activity dashboard is not at all a new feature provided by Google, but previously it was focused mainly on account activity. But from now, using this dashboard feature you can also manually revoke or lock a device’s access from your account remotely in a single-click, which could be a useful utility for those who somehow lost their smartphone or laptop, as well as if an intruder ever managed to add your account on their own device.

“Security in the cloud is a shared responsibility,” Feigenbaum said. “It only takes minutes for users to update their settings. By making users more aware of their security settings and the activity on their devices, we can work together to stay a step ahead of any bad guys.”