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Security advisor for app access protection

Security advisor for app access protection

Welcome back. Now that we understood the use case of context aware access, let's move on to another critical security parameter or option that we have in Google Workspace, that is the security advisor. Security advisor can be accessed in the same section where context aware access lies, just below the create access level option. Now, apart from CAA, administrators can use the security advisor for app access protection to warn or block your users on unsafe mobile devices from accessing core workspace apps like Drive, Gmail, and others. Now, there are various options that we have in Security Advisor which are predefined. While for CAA, you have to customize the access level and the policies. Let's go and see what options we have in Security Advisor. Depending on the device type, you can control access from various types of unsafe devices, such as devices with outdated OS, devices with missing security updates, or devices with potentially harmful apps and others. Users who try to access…

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