You are setting up Cloud Identity for your company's Google Cloud organization.

Google's Super Administrator security best practices emphasize that these accounts should be handled differently from standard user accounts, especially when using third-party SSO (like Entra ID).

According to Google Cloud Best Practices for Admin Accounts:

"You should maintain at least two super administrator accounts that are not part of your standard SSO (Single Sign-On) flow. These should be 'Cloud-only' accounts. This ensures that if your external IdP (Entra ID) is down or misconfigured, you can still sign in to Google Cloud. Furthermore, you must enforce Google 2-step verification (2SV)—ideally using hardware security keys—directly on these accounts to provide the strongest level of protection independent of the IdP."

Key Best Practices:

Dedicated Accounts: Do not use the same account for daily work (Email/Docs) and Admin tasks.

Avoid SSO for Admins: If Entra ID has an issue, you could be locked out of your Google Org. Cloud-only accounts solve this.

Strong 2SV: Google's native 2SV is required to protect these highly privileged identities from phishing and credential theft.