BeyondCorp (a new approach to enterprise security)

BeyondCorp can be thought of as a new approach to enterprise security. Despite being a relatively new standard in the world of the security domain, BeyondCorp has become very popular and widely adopted. It is based on the Zero Trust model and aims to remove the need for a VPN by securing the individual users themselves, allowing users to access resources from anywhere in the world securely.

BeyondCorp takes a different and very interesting approach to security. Where traditional security platforms try to keep everyone out of the business assets by creating a plethora of firewalls and defenses and only giving access to those who have been authenticated, BeyondCorp removes the need of having an inside and an outside (with a firewall in-between). Instead, it sees every request (for access), regardless of it was made by a member or not, and grants access based on several contextual factors and conditions. This Zero Trust model means...