Security News > 2022 > June > Google battles bots, puts Workspace admins on alert

Google has added API security tools and Workspace admin alerts about potentially risky configuration changes such as super admin passwords resets.

Google's answer to these problems includes two API security features available in preview: one that identifies API misconfigurations and another that detects bots.

Google Cloud's head of product Vikas Anand pointed to a healthcare use case for this API security feature.

"Advanced API Security can detect if those required policies have not been applied, an alert which can help reduce the surface area of API security risks," he added.

The second capability detects malicious bots within API traffic.

Google put admins on alert that they will soon receive more alerts in the case of potentially nefarious changes made to their Google Workspace configurations.

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