Google Releases – Cloud-Native Security

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Even though Google has already published dozens of papers that help enterprises direct their scaling processes, they need launched a replacement security whitepaper as an extension of the previous versions.

The new whitepaper, launched on December 17th, aims to assist enterprises scale their own tools with a replacement approach to cloud-native security. Titled BeyondProd, this new approach is sort of almost like the previous BeyondCorp zero trust system.

BeyondCorp VS BeyondProd

Google’s BeyondCorp zero trust system was launched a couple of years ago to assist guide enterprises through security systems and approaches. BeyondCorp was all about taking security faraway from VPNs and firewalls and bringing it closer to individual users and devices.

The new approach, that is, the extension of BeyondCorp referred to as BeyondProd, focuses on Google’s zero trust approach to attach machines, workloads, and services. BeyondProd is predicated on an identical principle to its predecessor and it includes many of an equivalent features.

The shared features include network protection at the top , automated and standardized change rollout, isolated workloads, trusted machines running known code, and no mutual trust between services.

“In an equivalent way that BeyondCorp helped us to evolve beyond a perimeter-based security model, BeyondProd represents an identical breakthrough in our approach to production security,” Google says. “By applying the safety principles within the BeyondProd model to your own cloud-native infrastructure, you'll enjoy our experience, to strengthen the deployment of your workloads, how your their communications are secured, and the way they affect other workloads.”

The advantage of the New Approach

This new approach aims to enhance the general security of cloud-native applications that communicate over APIs and run on modern infrastructures. the extra security will are available handy for budget control, as there'll be less money spent on unwanted security recovery issues.

All of the features listed above are going to be available to developers through several Google’s services like GKE and their hybrid cloud platform referred to as Anthos.