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Secure your cloud universe with quantum-enhanced encryption.
QAuth, formerly CloudCodes, is a full-strength cloud access security broker (CASB) and integrated SSO platform designed to secure today’s cloud-centric organisations across their SaaS applications, data and users.
Playground
Explore the new QAuth admin experience with a sample organisation: identity analytics at a glance, every policy in one place, users and org units, and the email DLP dashboard. Switch policies on and off, filter users and work through the DLP review queue. Every name and figure here is sample data.
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Access policies · Google Workspace
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Sample data for illustration, based on the QAuth admin console.
Talk to the QAuth teamCapabilities
Access control & SSOSingle sign-on and policy-based access to every sanctioned SaaS app.
CASBCovers Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Jira, Confluence and more.
Data loss preventionStops data leaving across cloud apps, users and endpoints.
Email securityPolicy-based protection from phishing and account takeover.
Zero TrustUsers, devices and context verified before access is granted.
Shadow IT visibilityFinds unsanctioned SaaS and brings it under one governance model.
Quantum-enhanced encryptionQuantum-secure keys protect data deployed through agents.
Compliance & governanceMeets regulatory requirements across cloud environments.
Heritage
QAuth began life in 2011 as CloudCodes, with a single objective: bring innovative, agile cloud security to businesses worldwide. Today it is part of the QSE Corp family, pairing more than a decade of CASB engineering with QSE’s quantum-secure encryption stack.
QAuth gives enterprises the freedom to adopt cloud collaboration without inheriting cloud data risk. Gain complete visibility and control to reduce your threat surface, block known and unknown intrusions, and implement layered security across every sanctioned SaaS application.
Credentials
The four pillars of CASB
A cloud access security broker is usually judged on four things. This is where each QAuth module fits.
See which cloud apps are in use, sanctioned or not, and who did what. Shadow IT discovery, dashboards, reports and an audit trail.
Show that policies are in force. PII, PHI, PCI and HIPAA templates, email agreements for new joiners, and CIS benchmark checks for AWS.
Stop sensitive data leaving through sharing, downloads or email. DLP for Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint and email, containerisation and quantum-enhanced encryption.
Keep the wrong people and devices out. IP, device, browser, time and location restrictions, multi-factor authentication and third-party app blocking.
Security modules
A control point for continuous visibility, compliance, threat protection and cloud security. Collaborate without limits and work safely across cloud services, on any device, anywhere in the world.
Regulate and monitor permissions to business data through policy.
Cloud apps offer data access from anywhere, on any device, at any time — and that flexibility can be misused. What if a user copies proprietary data after hours, forgets to log out of a public machine, or connects an unofficial, malware-infected device? QAuth Access Control gives macro-level visibility into data and user behaviour, restricting unauthorised access while leaving enough freedom for smooth day-to-day work.
Restrict access to business data to one or more specified IP addresses. Whitelist or blacklist for the organisation, an OU or a single user — no firewall settings or local installation required.
Allow business data only from browsers IT approves — Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge. Managed via the Chrome management console with OU granularity and automated rollout.
Block unknown, public or unauthorised devices by MAC ID, with daily violation reports. Supports Windows, macOS, Linux and Chromebook, with self-service rollout.
Create virtual work boundaries by city or country, for one user, an OU or the whole organisation. No additional apps required.
Limit access to defined workdays and hours, across multiple time zones, with no extra extension.
Terminate idle sessions and cap total session duration so unattended machines can’t reach corporate data.
Block sign-in to any third-party app the admin hasn’t whitelisted — a preventive control rather than post-breach revocation.
Define which external domains users may communicate and share with, and block everything else.
Monitor, track and prevent data loss in use, in motion and at rest.
Set policies from a single console that govern how business data is used across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox and more — tracking or restricting sharing, downloading, copying, printing and deletion for a user, an OU or the entire organisation, with support for PII, PHI, PCI and HIPAA compliance.
Downloads, Drive sharing, personal Gmail on the business network, clipboard copy/paste, printing and screenshots of business data.
Containerise Drive, control sharing across OUs and individuals, and block downloads, printing, screenshots and clipboard operations.
Encrypt Drive downloads and Gmail or Outlook attachments so files are readable only inside the QAuth Viewer — unreadable anywhere else.
Pre-built templates for PCI, PHI, PII, HIPAA and more, with automatic revocation of external access when a violation is detected.
Stop data moving between personal and business Gmail, and stop business from being conducted in an unmonitored account.
Restrict pen drives, external hard drives and flash storage so business data can’t walk out of the building.
A local proxy agent that inspects only monitored traffic and stores nothing, or agentless API polling for near real-time action — or both.
Real-time admin alerts on every violation and a searchable, exportable audit trail of who moved what, from where.
One-click access to every cloud application with a single identity.
QAuth SSO protects thousands of applications from the risks of password management and lets internal and external users reach mobile, cloud and on-premises apps on any device with one set of credentials. Administrators track activity in real time, with provisioning and de-provisioning built in.
A single set of credentials opens every sanctioned application from one launchpad, on desktop, phone or tablet.
Single-point access to all apps from predefined entitlements, with users mapped to individual access for easy monitoring.
Add or remove apps and entitlements without manual effort, so leavers lose access the moment they leave.
Bring custom on-premises applications into the same portal through custom protocol support.
Bind sign-on to trusted, certificate-enrolled devices so credentials alone are never enough.
Harden the login surface against credential-harvesting pages and lookalike domains.
Identify, manage and control user identities across the entire system.
Govern every identity — authentication, privileges, authorisation and roles — across enterprise boundaries, improving security and productivity while cutting cost, repetitive tasks and downtime. Covers wired, wireless and BYOD users, with directory integration built in.
Complexity rules, expiry with reminders, history and keyword blocking, and lockout after failed attempts.
A passkey from the user’s own device alongside the password, enforced always, on the corporate network, or by remembered IP.
Account recovery through secret questions or one-time passwords by SMS or email, removing helpdesk load.
Fingerprint and device biometrics as an authentication factor on mobile devices.
Use your existing directory as identity provider, including multiple forests and per-location domain controllers.
Extend the same identity and policy model to the Windows desktop login.
Map identities across directories and applications so one person is one governed identity everywhere.
Every authentication, failed attempt, password change and privilege update in a searchable history.
Agentless discovery, monitoring and control of unsanctioned SaaS.
Evaluate and report every potential IT risk, monitoring, blocking and reporting the use of authorised and unauthorised apps. Blocking everything is possible but rarely wise — QAuth strikes the balance between what users need and what the enterprise must protect.
Every cloud service in use across on- and off-premises networks, including services invisible to web proxies and firewalls.
Policies by service, operation, information and identity, enforced by block, alert, quarantine, bypass or coach.
Detect and protect sensitive content at the boundary with encryption and cloud DLP; block uploads and downloads on unsanctioned apps.
Activity-level analysis, detection of non-compliant behaviour, and audit trails for every cloud operation.
A configurable email gateway with a full DLP policy framework.
Configured on your email domain within hours, QAuth acts as a gateway for outgoing mail with DLP policies per user group — because email remains the most common leak channel in any organisation.
Detect mail sent to consumer addresses such as gmail.com, outlook.com or aol.com.
Track or reject mail to domains users shouldn’t communicate with.
Pre-defined PII and PHI policies, or your own regular expressions and keyword sets.
Label document types as restricted and track every message that carries them.
Reject with sender notification, track the flow, or notify the reporting manager or super admin.
Confidential messages identified and encrypted, with deeper analysis of content and any attachment type.
Monitor, manage and protect every device that touches corporate data.
Isolate corporate data, secure email, monitor documents on mobile devices, and manage laptops, phones, tablets and desktops from one console.
One platform for compliance initiatives, supervised and tracked against a defined rule set.
Employees use their own devices without the enterprise inheriting data-leakage risk.
Remotely manage every mobile component and keep a record of the data accessed on each.
Control app access by time, IP address and geolocation, with containerised app support.
Push updates and enforce security posture across iOS and Android fleets.
Protect and recover device data as part of the managed lifecycle.
Team-owned documents, reclaimed storage, no duplicate content.
Files belong to the team rather than an individual, and ownership transfers by policy — so nothing is lost when someone leaves.
Eliminate duplicate content and multiple iterations across personal drives.
Admins can change ownership or move folders inside Shared Drive at any time.
Folders inherit permissions from the parent so entitlements stay consistent.
Reach shared files from phone, tablet or desktop, any time.
Unified, professional signatures deployed centrally.
An email signature is brand recognition on every message your organisation sends. QAuth removes the need for standalone signature software.
Choose from ready-made layouts or build your own.
Name, title, contact details, hours, logo, social links and disclaimers — plus custom fields such as employee ID.
Signature fields bound to the user identity in the admin panel, so details stay accurate automatically.
Apply to all users, a specific OU or a single user.
Branding, communication and governance built into the login moment.
Every employee logs in at least once a day. QAuth turns that moment into a controlled, branded, governed touchpoint.
Your own HTML or a supplied template — full branding control over the page every employee sees daily.
Redirect users after login to an intranet portal or internal site.
Messages on login for the whole organisation or selected OUs, with configurable display frequency.
Bind new joiners to corporate terms with a one-time agreement at first login.
OUs, users, policies and violations at a glance, with instant alerts and monthly PDF reports.
QSE quantum-secure keys applied to agent-protected data.
The capability QAuth gained by joining QSE Corp: data protected by QAuth agents is encrypted with keys derived from QSE’s hardware QRNG entropy, so containerised documents and attachments are protected against harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks.
Keys generated from true hardware quantum entropy rather than software pseudo-randomness.
Files containerised by the QAuth agent inherit quantum-secure encryption at the point of download.
Aligned with NIST post-quantum standards and ready to rotate as they evolve.
Shares the entropy and key-management fabric used across QSE Storage, Entropy Core and qREK.
Supported platforms
Twelve SaaS and cloud platforms, governed by one policy framework.
Google Workspace
Take macro-level control and visibility over enterprise data in Gmail, Google Drive and Chromebook through flexible yet stringent policies, alerts and reports — whether a user forgets to log out on a public machine, shares documents with strangers, clicks a phishing link, moves files to a personal drive or authorises an unvetted third-party app.
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 security is a shared responsibility. QAuth adds user-behaviour analytics, cloud storage data protection and governance, and control over Shadow IT — with admin alerts, restraint of unauthorised tasks, permission changes and coaching messages for end users.
Amazon Web Services
QAuth continuously assesses AWS workloads against Center for Internet Security benchmarks, monitoring S3, CloudTrail, IAM policies, IAM users and Config in real time and alerting by email on threats and violations.
Dropbox
Extend visibility and granular control over Dropbox with DLP and CASB technology: a control layer with native SSO and MFA, plus contextual awareness of location, service, device and content.
Slack
Slack keeps a searchable log of every conversation, which makes it a high-value target. QAuth configures Slack across domains and blocks data theft and leakage, with admin control over app authorisation, certificate downloads and domain/user email mapping.
Atlassian Jira & Confluence
A robust control set for Jira and Confluence with security analytics, live data monitoring and audit logs — plus selective encryption so only authenticated, entitled users can open confidential files.
Salesforce
An API connector protects Salesforce data without changing how users work — real-time security checks and granular controls with visibility across the CRM and its service platform.
Zoho
Protect the Zoho suite and every program your business runs on it — CRM, Email, HR, marketing and address book.
Zendesk
CASB controls for Zendesk keep support conversations, customer records and ticket attachments inside your security perimeter.
Freshdesk
The same access, identity and DLP policy framework that governs the rest of your SaaS estate, applied to Freshdesk.
Chromebook
QAuth adds a cloud data-protection layer through DLP, giving visibility and control to detect, track and block information breaches whether data is in use, at rest or in transit.
Education
Institutions on Google Workspace for Education keep student and faculty data governed, restrict access outside campus hours and networks, and meet regulatory obligations without adding admin burden.
Admin feature set
Identity features
AWS workload assessment
QAuth monitors AWS resources — S3 buckets, CloudTrail, IAM policies, IAM users and Config — against Center for Internet Security benchmarks, evaluating them in real time and alerting administrators by email the moment a threat or violation appears.
Why QAuth
Mapping user identities across directories — rarely offered by competing CASB vendors
Time restriction and device restriction as first-class access control policies
Geo-location fencing on both web and mobile access paths
Enterprise-grade password policy with self-service reset and anti-phishing login control
Personal Gmail block, session timeout and session duration controls
Agentless and agent-based Shadow IT discovery in the same platform
Google Drive and Dropbox DLP covering download, share, delete and desktop sync
Email signature and shared folder add-ons included rather than sold separately
Pricing
Licensing is per user, per year. For customisation, volume and partner pricing, speak to the QAuth team.
Plan
Contact us · per user / year
Plan
Contact us · per user / year
Deployment
A lightweight agent acts as a web proxy for monitored applications only, storing none of the content it inspects. It enables OU sharing controls, delete and download tracking, external sharing control, personal Gmail block and clipboard restrictions.
QAuth polls cloud provider APIs — Google Drive, OneDrive and others — for document events, applying multiple policies to different user sets in near real time with nothing to install.
The SSO server sits in the same domain as Active Directory as the authentication agent, supporting multiple forests and per-location domain controllers. Azure AD is supported as identity provider.
Recognition
Earned as CloudCodes, before it joined QSE Corp and became QAuth.
“CloudCodes CASB Solutions has given me peace of mind by empowering me with the ability to implement additional security to my Google Apps for my organisation. I would recommend the cloud security solution to everyone who uses Google Apps for Work.”
Case studies
Published as CloudCodes case studies, every one on G Suite, now Google Workspace. Four of them below; all 20 have the full challenge, controls and result.
Aviation
Single sign-on, a shared login for hand-overs between countries, and two-factor authentication to keep unauthorised users out.
Ecommerce
Password policies, self-service reset and a consumer Gmail block that keeps company email working. Helpdesk tickets fell by around 20–30%.
IT services
IP, device and browser restriction per OU, a personal Gmail block, and branded login and landing pages, all from one console.
Education
A custom login page with the school’s branding, alongside Active Directory, so one password works for email and Windows.
Partner program
Partners choose QAuth because we build and deliver managed cloud services, with the solutions and support they need to simplify their customers’ cloud requirements. Benefits increase as members reach each tier.
Tier
For partners with superior sales and technical expertise in selling and supporting QAuth. The most extensive benefits and discounts, and an exclusive direct relationship with QSE.
Tier
Online sales, marketing, training and education tools to build QAuth knowledge and business, with discounts and benefits from day one.
Sales benefits
Marketing benefits
Technical benefits
FAQ
Yes. CloudCodes joined the QSE Corp family, and its CASB and single sign-on platform is now called QAuth. Older names you may find, such as gControl and CloudCodes for G Suite, refer to the same platform.
A Cloud Access Security Broker sits between your users and your cloud services to enforce security policy. Many newer frameworks lack the breadth organisations need; QAuth covers data protection, access control, identity, DLP and Shadow IT in one platform rather than a collection of point tools.
SSO joins several application login screens into one. A user signs in once and the service issues an authentication token — like a temporary ID card — that every application checks with the SSO service before letting them in.
It improves both efficiency and security, especially for organisations with high turnover or multiple sites. Every location and employee is managed from one platform, and rights can be granted or revoked remotely and immediately — including ad-hoc access for suppliers.
IAM manages user accounts and access rights for organisations, users and applications. It authenticates users, guarantees the rights they request and automates onboarding, so new joiners are productive immediately.
The use of systems, devices, software and services without explicit IT approval. It has grown with cloud adoption and can drive productivity, but it also introduces real risk through data leaks and compliance breaches — which is why discovery and governance matter more than blanket blocking.
Yes. The third-party app block and several other control policies are delivered through a browser extension that admins can push centrally via Chrome management.
Yes. Browser restriction lets you whitelist browsers for an OU or a subset of users, so any attempt to reach corporate data from another browser is blocked.
Yes. A device restriction policy can cover a single user across multiple approved devices.
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