

In the network itself, we have cloud-based micro-segmentation, so that every piece of the network implements authorizations, sort of from component to component.

“It also uses things like two-factor keys so that we can prevent against phishing and credential theft. “We worked with Chrome to build all those into BeyondCorp Enterprise and turn it on,” Caccia said.

The Chrome browser now has built-in capabilities that use Google’s Cloud Data Loss Prevention and Safe Browsing APIs, a Google service that lets client applications check URLs against Google’s constantly updated lists of unsafe web resources. The offering extends to connections to Google’s 144 global network edge locations. “ now available to essentially both protect, but also transit, the Google network from wherever users are to wherever their apps are in the form of BeyondCorp Enterprise.” “Essentially, all of our PoPs now are lighted up with the same functionality that powers Google employees,” Potti said. The turnkey product offering encompasses a series of functionalities that leverage what Sunil Potti, general manager and vice president of cloud security for Google Cloud, calls “significant amplifiers that only Google can provide.” “The years of security we’ve built into the system enables the trust that cloud users need,” Caccia said. BeyondCorp Enterprise is the only system where every single interaction-from user to app, app to app to other infrastructure components all the way through-is reauthorized, Caccia said. Many of the zero trust options from other providers focus on the connection from the user to the app or the user to the network, according to Rick Caccia, Google Cloud security’s marketing head. It includes embedded data and threat protection built into Chrome-which has been quietly updated already- to prevent malicious or unintentional data loss and exfiltration and malware infections from the network to the browser phishing-resistant authentication and continuous authorization for all interactions between a user and BeyondCorp-protected resources. Now generally available, BeyondCorp Enterprise is designed to provide continuous and real-time end-to-end protection, scalable DDoS protection and built-in, verifiable platform security. Google Cloud Tuesday unveiled BeyondCorp Enterprise, its new zero trust identity and security platform with agentless support delivered through Google’s Chrome browser that’s used by more than 2 billion users globally.
