Introducing new session management tools with native, granular controls
Google Cloud session management provides flexible options for setting up session controls based on your organization’s security policy needs. To help you improve your security posture and mitigate credential theft and account takeover (ATO) risks, we have rolled out a 16-hour default session length for Google Cloud customers.
We’ve now completed extending this security standard to all customers who had not already self-configured session lengths, but today’s cloud environments require even more precision. As we conclude this global rollout, we have also evolved Google Cloud session controls from a broad administrative setting into a deeply integrated, granular feature of Context-Aware Access (CAA).
This update gives administrators more flexibility, better automation, and a more natural security workflow.
What’s new in Session Controls
1. Automation-first: Terraform, gcloud, and API support
Modern infrastructure is managed as code. To support DevSecOps workflows, the Session Controls policy configuration is no longer limited to manual UI...
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