Security News > 2020 > April > Google Launches Cloud-Based Remote Access Solution
Google this week announced the availability of a cloud-based solution meant to help work-from-home employees securely access enterprise resources.
The newly launched BeyondCorp Remote Access is based on a zero-trust model and provides employees with the ability to remotely access internal web apps from almost any device, from anywhere, even without the use of a VPN. "Over time, we plan to offer the same capability, control, and additional protections for virtually any application or resource a user needs to access," Google says.
The company says that the BeyondCorp zero-trust access approach it started implementing internally since 2011 has provided its workforce with the required access to apps from a broad range of devices, without having to use a VPN. BeyondCorp, Google claims, was designed to offer not only a VPN replacement, but also to ensure that access to resources is available to the right users only, in the right context.
The company claims that BeyondCorp Remote Access can help organizations solve the issue of remote access within days, rather than the months that would normally be required to deploy a traditional VPN solution.
"We're committed to helping you meet the immediate need for rapid rollout of remote access today, while enabling you to build a more secure foundation for a modern, zero-trust access model tomorrow. If this is something that might be useful for your organization, get in touch, we're eager to help," Google concludes.