BeyondCorp: Building a Healthy Fleet

Any security capability is inherently only as secure as the other systems it trusts. The BeyondCorp project helped Google clearly define and make access decisions around the platforms we trust, shifting our security strategy from protecting services to protecting trusted platforms. Previous BeyondCorp articles discussed the tooling Google uses to confidently ascertain the provenance of a device, but we have not yet covered the mechanics behind how we trust these devices.