I have no clue the intent of this buy, but Google Cloud does have an IAM feature today[0]. I'd bet they are looking to pull in talent to help improve that feature, or maybe to make the IAM more than just IAM and handle all the things that Bitium does today.

You have to remember that Google Cloud also has bought StackDriver and Firebase and continues to grow those products.

(disclaimer: Google employee that wishes he worked on cloud)

[0] https://cloud.google.com/iam/

and Kaggle and api.ai and apigee and Qwiklabs and Orbitera and Anvato and you get the point :)

Apologies for taking it offtopic, but can't you just move internally?

Lateral movement here is really easy. But I'm at a smaller Google office, which limits the options I have for other teams without moving to a different location.

EDIT: I ranked location over product area when I picked where to interview, and I'm still happy with my choice. I ended up in payments, which I was not thrilled about when I started, but I've come to enjoy it. There are lots of technical challenges when you are dealing with the payment volume Google moves.

What did you like about it? What alternatives did you consider?

(I'm super interested in IDPs right now).

What is IDPs in this context?

I found "Intrusion Detection and Prevention System" but I don't think that's it.

IdP == Identity Provider. A thing that knows what accounts exist, and how to authenticate for them. Contrast: RP (relying party), which needs the IdP to identify who someone is.

Your IdP can be, like, GSuite auth. RP can be any app that believes GSuite when it makes assertions about who you are, via OpenID Connect or SAML.

Ah. That makes more sense.

I knew it had something to do with authentication providers somehow... but I just missed it.

Thanks!

I've not heard of Bitium, but we're super happy with Auth0.

I don't think they are the same at all. Bitium is a single sign on solution for Enterprise. Your employee creates a bitium account and then you Grant access to their bitium account to all the necessary services. Like AWS, Dropbox, whatever. Allows you to automate the onboarding process and also easily manage and cut off access to employees when they leave the company.

I actually haven't used it myself. But I was in the same accelerator as them a few years ago in LA.

Same questions.

Easy to use, many integrations, great design. We chose it over OneLogin which we used before.

Were you using it mostly for your internal apps or mostly to give everyone access to third party apps? What was good about the design?

I'm very familiar with OneLogin and Okta but not at all familiar with Bitium.