Over the years, new startup ecosystems have always been sparked by Google’s numerous whitepapers outlining how the company addresses certain problems at scale. These documents have also influenced how other businesses approach scaling their tools.
The business is now releasing a new security whitepaper that demonstrates how it protects its cloud-native design.
An Overview of BeyondCorp
BeyondProd is an evolution of the BeyondCorp zero trust system, which the business first introduced a few years ago, as indicated by its name.
BeyondProd is focused on Google’s zero-trust approach to how it connects machines, workloads, and services, whereas BeyondCorp is about pushing security away from VPNs and firewalls on the edge to the individual users and devices.
It should come as no surprise that BeyondProd is founded on many of the same principles as BeyondCorp, including network protection at the top, no shared trust between services, trusted machines running known code, automated and controlled change rollout, and separated workloads.
All of this naturally focuses on protecting cloud-native applications, which frequently use APIs for communication and operate on contemporary infrastructure.
Together, these rules suggest that containers and the microservices running inside them can be deployed, communicate with one another, and work close to one another in a secure manner.
Without burdening specific microservice developers with the foundation’s implementation and safety specifics,” says Google.
The hybrid cloud platform from Google
Of course, Google recognises that it is able to provide developers with access to all of these functionalities through services like GKE and Anthos, its hybrid cloud platform.
But, the business also highlights that many of its open-source products, including as Envoy, Istio, gVisor, and others, further enable organisations to design systems that conform to the same policies.
According to Google, BeyondProd represents a comparable advancement on the approach to production security as BeyondCorp did in helping the company move beyond a perimeter-based security paradigm.
You can benefit from our experience to enhance the deployment of your workloads, how you are their communications are guarded, and how they affect other workloads by integrating the security policies in the BeyondProd model to your cloud-native architecture.
