Google has announced a series of new updates that provide even stronger security in Gmail, Meet and Chat in an effort to help people who work from home stay safe.
To keep the entire Gmail ecosystem safe, the search giant has announced the pilot of its new standard for Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI).
The BIMI pilot will allow organizations, which authenticate their emails using DMARC, to validate the ownership of their corporate logos and securely transmit them to Google. After these authenticated emails pass Google’s anti-abuse checks, Gmail will start displaying an organization’s logo in the service’s avatar slot so that users know that these emails come directly from a company and not from someone who does it. impersonates.
Google will begin its BIMI pilot in the coming weeks with a limited number of senders. Certification authorities Entrust Datacard and DigiCert will also work with the company to validate ownership of the logo. To prepare for the official launch of BIMI in the coming months, Google recommends that organizations start adopting DMARC now if they haven’t already.
Know the security controls
Google also announced that it will implement new security controls for Google Meet in the coming weeks to help ensure that only intended participants can join the video meetings. During the initial launch, these new options will be available for consumer accounts and G Suite for Education.
First, Google is giving meeting hosts more control over who can “tap” and join their meetings. Once an attendee is kicked out of a meeting, they cannot attempt to join the same meeting again by tapping unless the host invites them again. Also, if a user’s call request has been denied multiple times, the user will automatically be blocked from sending any more requests to join the meeting.
Google is also providing hosts with advanced security locks to allow them to better protect meetings with a few simple clicks. With these new security locks, hosts can decide how a user can join a meeting, and even require users to get explicit approval to join.
By enabling security locks, hosts will block all anonymous users who are not signed in with a Google account from trying to join your meetings. There are also specific security locks that allow the host to control how the participants in a meeting interact. For example, chat lock and current lock will allow hosts to control which attendees can chat and present within the meeting.
The new features announced for Google Meet will certainly come in handy as schools and universities plan to reopen digitally in the fall.
