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but the inherent problem in this architecture (as it pertains to distributed staff) was not addressed.Д¬loud and SaaS software required a rethink. Network Packet Analysis based products, VDIs etc. There is a huge plethora of software companies that focus on a roundabout way of securing Enterprises via an outdated Access Management. With anyone being able to come to the gates and request access to the castle using the mobile phone or public internet connected wifi, the robustness of the drawbridge protocols are not quite sturdy.

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Google built a series of in-house open source tools to manage its Mac fleet.This вЂwalledвЂ™ model works well if all employees are sitting in 1 office building within an enterprise. 'It was removed on 94 percent of machines with barely a whimper,' Castle said. Google did this when stripping Flash from machines but initially offered staff a way to retain the functionality. The Beyond Corp model meant any form of wireless connection could be used for patching and incident response for remote users.Д¬astle said Macs could no longer be considered safe, and recommended administrators wanting to strip functionality from staff computers to boost security offer accessible 'exemptions' that allowed users to easily opt out. He said it collected from the Mac fleet alone a billion lines in logs daily. In a separate talk, Sydney-based Greg Castle of Google's MacOps security team detailed some of the tools it used to protect its massive Apple fleet. 'It is really important to build support in your organisation and reach all the people targeted with the program,' Monsch said, adding executive backing was also critical. This presented challenges in systems management and latency with legacy systems such as synchronous network attached storage which was swapped to asynchronous cloud models. Google was implementing the new platform on the existing legacy architecture in a bid to get users to migrate over to what it says is a more efficient system. Once this was done, certificates could be issued to authenticated users. 'Inventory in organisations is a data dump - often manually curated and no one looks in it to see if the data is correct,' Monsch said.ДЄn inventory needed to undergo 'gory' cleaning to ensure accuracy. So Google uses what it calls meta-inventory, which connected to upstream inventory sources and provided an interface for authorisation each time users attempted to connect. Instead, Google would authenticate and authorise users only after their devices have been verified as belonging to the Google inventory and as being in a secure state.ДЇinding a way to know how many devices Google has at any given time was a two-year thorn in the side for Monsch. Together with fellow Swiss Googler Monsch, he told the LISA 2013 conference that Google was removing all traces of the old form of privelege associated with the bygone corporate network model. 'Effectively, firewalls don't help and a lot of other gatekeeper tools that rely on a perimeter simply don't help.' 'We want to completely get rid of the idea of having some sort of perimeter,' Wagener said. It was a model based on zero trust that splashed encryption everywhere and let staff access corporate resources over McDonald's WiFi.

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Google staff now can use Windows PCs only with a business case making the company the world's biggest Apple shop with 43,000 devices - a thousand more than its total staff count.Д®ngineers Jan Monsch and Harald Wagener provided insight into the company's aptly named Beyond Corp project to dump the corporate network model.

It also points to a decision by Google to ditch the popular operating system as a result of the 2009 state-sponsored Operation Aurora attacks. It reflects the position of the world's biggest search engine that perimeter defence and its respective gadgetry is a dead duck.

There's a sign at Google asking employees to check their corporate networks and Windows PCs at the door.