Google is pitching BeyondCorp as an alternative to a corporate VPN. This is an important distinction and one worth emphasising here. This claim smacks of opportunism to us and we would suggest that Google is simply trying to pick up some of the business that has been flowing into both personal and corporate VPNs in recent months. In a blog post announcing the launch of BeyondCorp, Google argues that it offers a simpler and faster alternative to VPNs and bizarrely makes the claim that VPNs are often too complicated for employees to be able to use. With the unprecedented surge in remote working that has occurred in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the spike in VPN use that we have seen as a result, Google has seen a timely opportunity to cash in on its investment in the BeyondCorp technology while the market is hot. Google has hinted that it may add more features in the future but at the time of writing, further details are not available. This authenticates them to access any content they have permission to connect with and lets them get on with work.Īt the moment, all BeyondCorp can do is enforce access controls for web apps, either onsite or in the cloud. A security certificate has to be installed on each device that has permission and this is cross-referenced with HR information to ensure that only permitted staff are able to connect.Īll employees have to do after the initial set-up is to enter the remote network through a single log-in point. It grew out of an attempt by Google to simplify its own network access features and was designed as a tool that made it far easier to set specific access policies for a narrow set of users around each internal application.īeyondCorp’s big feature is a database of every device that is permitted to connect to each specific app. It has since been used as an internal tool to allow Google staff to remote access internal apps. Google actually created BeyondCorp Remote Access as far back as 2011. The nature of this new tool has seen it being compared to VPNs in some publications, but it is important to note that while BeyondCorp offers some similar features, it is certainly not an alternative to a VPN, not for the everyday user at least. Director of Product Management at VMware said: “Google’s commitment to security is clear and in today’s environment, device access policies are a key piece of the zero trust framework”.Google has announced that it is rolling out a new tool known as BeyondCorp Remote Access, a cloud-based app that claims to offer companies a way to let employees access a company’s internal web apps remotely and securely. “BeyondCorp Enterprise customers will be able to seamlessly leverage the power of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to deliver complete protection through verified access control to their business data and applications and secure their assets and users from the sophisticated tactics of cyber adversaries, including lateral movement,” explained Matthew Polly, VP WW Alliances, Channels, and Business Development at CrowdStrike.ĭan Quintas, Sr. The BeyondCorp Alliance allows customers to leverage existing controls to make adoption easier while adding key functionality and intelligence that enables customers to make better access decisions.Ĭheck Point, Citrix, CrowdStrike, Jamf, Lookout, McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, Symantec (a division of Broadcom), Tanium and VMware are members of the Alliance. “With BeyondCorp Enterprise, we are bringing our proven, scalable platform to customers, meeting their zero trust requirements wherever they are”. “A scalable, reliable zero trust platform in a secure, agentless architecture, including continuous and real-time end-to-end protection and provides a solution that’s open and extensible, to support a wide variety of complementary solutions,” Google informed. The ‘BeyondCorp Enterprise’ solution delivers three key benefits to customers and partners.
“BeyondCorp Enterprise brings this modern, proven technology to organizations so they can get started on their own zero trust journey,” Sunil Potti, VP/GM, Google Cloud Security, said in a statement late on Tuesday. In a bid to further enable innovation in security for enterprises as bad actors get more sophisticated, Google has announced the general availability of its comprehensive zero trust product offering called BeyondCorp Enterprise.īeyondCorp is a technology suite Google uses internally to protect its applications, data, and users.
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