Enabling security and encryption

- As with a new web based program,…security is an important part…of the development process for Google Apps.…Due to the structure of Google Apps,…securing your actual data and source code…is essentially a non-issue.…The servers on which your app runs…already have standard encryption and security,…so you don't have to take any part in that.…The main part of the security process…that we will look at in this video…is user authentication.…Who is able to access your application…and what are they able to do with it?…There are three different ways for users…to authenticate in your application.…

You can simply allow them to log in…using Google accounts.…You can allow separate account creation…on your custom domain,…or you can use OpenID identifiers.…As of the making of this video,…the OpenID system is still in the experimental phase,…so it isn't as well supported as Google acccounts…and custom accounts.…Apps automatically support two levels of permissions,…ordinary user and administrator,…so you can easily designate certain pages…