{"id":6313,"date":"2023-06-06T09:39:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jumpcloud.com\/blog\/?p=6313"},"modified":"2024-08-15T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:58:15","slug":"google-identity-services-vs-active-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/google-identity-services-vs-active-directory","title":{"rendered":"Google Identity Services vs. Active Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Microsoft\u2019s Active Directory<\/a> (AD) was created over 20 years ago to secure and manage networks. It establishes an organization hierarchy of users and devices for Windows networks, centralizes administration, manages access control for users and services, and provides single-factor authentication for networks. This technology and the era of computing it was made for is very different from Google’s Identity Services — a modern method of managing cloud services and single sign-on<\/a> (SSO). Microsoft recognizes this shift and has moved steadily toward the cloud, and AD shops can’t avoid the identity transformation that\u2019s now underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n