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Time Restriction for Google Workspace (G Suite)

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How can Time Restriction restrict access to Google Worspace (Gsuite) to our corporate devices?

miniOrange allows you to restrict the use of your application only within a particular time range. Users outside of that time are not allowed to access the applications.

• miniOrange’s Adaptive Engine also offers time-based restriction as one of the methods for Adaptive Authentication. Here, there can be extremely detailed control on the timeframe over which access to your Google Workspace is to be granted or denied for all of your users. miniOrange’s latest Adaptive tech helps you set the days as well as hours in which access is to be controlled, wherein a user can be granted access only within working hours and denied access before as well as after. Time-based restriction is a must have feature when it comes to securing and managing employee working.
• The admin configures a time zone with Start and End Time. Users are either permitted, refused, or challenged based on the timezone and policies defined. When an end-user tries to log in with adaptive authentication enabled, his time zone-related parameters, such as time zone and current system time, are checked against the list defined by the admin, and the user is either permitted, rejected, or challenged, depending on the configuration.

Follow the step-by-step guide given below to configure Time Restriction for Google Workspace (G Suite)

1. Configure Google Workspace (G Suite) in miniOrange

• Log into miniOrange Admin Console.
• Go to Apps and click on Add Applicaton button.



• In Choose Application Type click on Create App button in SAML/WS-FED application type.



• Search for the Google in the list.



• Enter your Domain name that you uses with the Google Workspace.
• Enter the Single Logout URL as https://mail.google.com/a/out/tld/?logout.
• From the Provisioning tab, enter the Domain Administrator in Google Apps (G Suite) Administrator field and click on "Verify Google Apps Administrator" to verify if the domain entered is of administrator (this is an optional field).



• Click on Save.

Get IdP Metadata Details to upload to Google Apps:

• Go to Apps >> Manage Apps.
• Search for your app and click on the select in action menu against your app.
• Click on Metadata to get metadata details, which will be required later. Click on Show SSO Link to see the IDP initiated SSO link for Google Apps.



• Here you will see 2 options, if you are setting up miniOrange as IDP copy the metadata details related to miniOrange, if you required to be authenticated via external IDP's (OKTA, AZURE AD, ADFS, ONELOGIN, GOOGLE APPS) you can get metadata from the 2nd Section as shown below.



• Keep SAML Login URL and click on the Download Certificate button to download certificate which you will require in Step 2.

2. Configure SAML SSO in Google Workspace (G Suite)

• Now login to Google Admin Console and Select Security Tab from Admin Console.
• Go to Authentication >> SSO with third-party IDP. Here, from the SSO profile for your organization section, click on the edit icon.





• Enable the Setup SSO with third party identity provider checkbox.
• Enter Sign-In Page URL: SAML Login URL from Step 1.
• Enter Sign-Out Page URL: < Base Server Url > /idp/oidc/logout?post_logout_redirect_uri=https://gmail.com
  Example: https://login.xecurify.com/moas/idp/oidc/logout?post_logout_redirect_uri=https://gmail.com
  
• Upload the certificate by clicking on Replace Certificate link that was downloaded earlier in Step 1.
• Enter Change Password URL: SAML Login URL from Step 1.
• Save the settings.
• Your Google SSO SAML integration is done.



2.1. Assign SSO profile to organizational units or groups:




If you want some of your users to sign in to Google directly, you can move those users into an organizational unit (OU) or group. Then, manage SSO settings for the OU or group so that those users are authenticated by Google rather than using your third-party IdP. Follow the following steps:

• If you want all your (non-super admin) users to sign in using a third-party IdP : You don't need to manage.
• If you want some of your users to sign in to Google directly : Click Manage SSO profile assignments and continue to the next step.
  • If you are assigning the SSO profile for the first time, then click Get started. Otherwise, click Manage. Note: Get started is only available if you’ve already enabled your third-party SSO profile.
  
  
  
  
  • Select the organizational unit or group for which you’re assigning the SSO profile from the left .
    Note: If the SSO profile assignment for an OU or group differs from your domain-wide profile assignment,
an override warning appears when you select that OU or group. You can’t assign the SSO profile on a
per-user basis. The Users view let you check the setting for a specific user.
    
  
  
  
  • Choose Organization's third Party SSO Profile if you want your users in the OU or group to sign in to Google services using the IdP designated in your domain’s third-party SSO profile.
  • Choose None if you want your users in the OU or group to sign in directly with Google.
  • Choose Another SSO profile in case you already have another Identity Provider configured and would like to use it for user authentication.
  • Then click Save.

2.2. To turn SSO off for all users:

If you want to turn off the third-party authentication for all your users without changing the SSO profile assignment for OUs or groups, you can disable the third-party SSO profile:

• Uncheck Set up SSO with third-party identity provider.
• Click Save.

3. Configure Time Restriction: Restricting access by Limiting the Time Zones

In this restriction method admin configures a time zone with Start and End Time’s for that time zone and users are either allowed, denied or challenged based on the condition in the policy. When an end-user tries to login with the adaptive authentication enabled, his time zone related attributes such as Time-Zone and Current System Time are verified against the list configured by the admin and based on the configuration the user is either allowed, denied or challenged.

You can configure Adaptive Authentication with Time Restriction in the following way:


• On the Add Policy tab navigate to TIME OF ACCESS CONFIGURATION section and enable the Enable Time Based Restriction option.
• From the select Timezone list, select the timezone. From the Start Time and End Time lists select the appropriate values. For each Time configuration you add, you can choose to either allow or deny it by enabling or disabling the switch button next to it.
• Enter the a value in minutes in the input field next to Time Difference allowed for Fraud Prevention check. This value allows you to specify some relaxation before your start time and after your end time. (so if the start time is 6 AM and the end time is 6PM with a time difference value set to 30 minutes, then the policy will consider time from 5:30AM to 6:30 PM). If no value is entered in this field, the default value is set which is 15 minutes.
• You can click on the + button to add more than one Time Configurations and then follow step 2 as mentioned above.



• Select your Action for behavior Change and Challenge Type for user from the Action for behavior Change Section.




Action for behavior Change Options :




Attribute	Description
Allow	Allow user to authenticate and use services if Adaptive authentication condition is true.
Challenge	Challenge users with one of the three methods mentioned below for verifying user authenticity.
Deny	Deny user authentications and access to services if Adaptive authentication condition is true.




Challenge Type Options :




Attribute	Description
User second Factor	The User needs to authenticate using the second factor he has opted or assigned for such as OTP over SMS PUSH Notification OTP over Email And 12 more methods.
KBA (Knowledge-based authentication)	The System will ask user for 2 of 3 questions he has configured in his Self Service Console. Only after right answer to both questions user is allowed to proceed further.
OTP over Alternate Email	User will receive a OTP on the alternate email he has configured threw Self Service Conolse. Once user provides the correct OTP he is allowed to proceed further.



• Scroll to the end and click on save.

4. Enable Restriction for Google Apps

• Go to Policies >> App Login Policy from the left navigation bar.
• Click on Edit option against your selected app.



• Set your application name in the Application and select password as Login Method.
• Enable Adaptive Authentication.
• From the Select Login Policy dropdown, select the policy we created in the last step and select the required restriction method as an option.
• Click Save.

External References

• Risk based Authentication
• Device Restriction
• Google Workspace + miniOrange
• Google Single Sign-On
• Google Apps Security
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