Google has unveiled new administration tools designed to improve the use of passwords, in order to boost security for customers using its Google Apps hosted enterprise software offerings.

“Helping businesses, schools and organisations to keep information safe is critical, and we’ve been providing Google Apps customers with a spectrum of capabilities to help ensure that only authorised users have access to information accessible from the cloud,” wrote Eran Feigenbaum, director of security for Google Apps.

Google has also added a new layer of security with administrator controls that allow enterprises to define the length of passwords and analyse their strength.

The relative strength of a password can be determined automatically in real time as Google’s account authentication system constantly analyses password use and attempts to break them.

Source: vnunet.com

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