Deadline looms: Google Workspace mandates OAuth by September 30
Google Workspace administrators, consider yourselves on notice: In less than a month, many third-party apps (mail, calendar, etc.) will stop connecting to Workspace accounts.
The change, effective September 30, will see Google disable access to "less secure apps," or LSAs, for all Google Workspace accounts. Those who haven't checked their Workspace Admin consoles recently will notice that LSA settings have already been removed, so there's no avoiding this change.
LSAs, as far as Google is concerned, are anything that doesn't use OAuth by way of Sign-In with Google, the Chocolate Factory's authentication-as-a-service offering. In other words, no more signing into Google Workspace with just a password, so get ready to apologize to some executives.
This isn't a surprise announcement - Google's Workspace team published a blog post about it last year to announce the transition away from LSAs. Sign-In with Google isn't exactly a new product either, so consider the next few weeks an opportunity to prevent a sudden surge in tickets at the end of the month.
