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Do you know where your users are going on the Internet? Do you know what they’re doing on the public Internet? How are you protecting your enterprise and your users from their cloud activities? These simple questions belie complex problems that can keep security and compliance practitioners up at night. One of the related challenges that organizations face today is controlling access to corporate and private file sharing applications such as Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox. Controlling access to these types of applications is critical for two reasons: the amount of malware being delivered through these applications is growing at an alarming rate, and file sharing applications are frequently used to exfiltrate sensitive data.
Context is king. Block everything or block nothing is easy. Implementing policy and using behavior to protect sensitive data while enabling your employees to be productive is hard. Thus, you need comprehensive contextualized security solutions. Today, Netskope announced its BeyondCorp Alliance partnership that enables Netskope and Google Cloud’s BeyondCorp Enterprise to share context about a user’s “risky” behavior through a new product integration. This partnership provides a zero trust architecture by combining context from application usage and access control.
In a blog from December 2021, we wrote about the “out-of-the-box” experience that customers have when using the Netskope integration with the Chrome extension. This is important to security administrators, providing detailed context for devices, users, and the services those devices and users are accessing. This gives IT and security administrators the capability to use that context to define policies that can moderate access to IT-managed applications based on a user’s organizational role and activity, not just offer a binary allow/block decision that lacks additional context.
Now, Google Cloud BeyondCorp Enterprise customers can gain more context, visibility, and prevention through the Netskope integration. We recognize proper context is needed to address complex security problems such as controlling access to file sharing services. Files sharing services contain rich, valuable corporate data that is needed for businesses to operate across the Internet. However, these services also create risky security conundrums. For example, your company is involved in a merger or acquisition, and thus, your everyday finance team needs access to sensitive data. These people are likely highly trusted employees that need to both upload and download files from a corporate file sharing service. But now they need to work with other organizations, and they need access to another company’s data. Before the merger is complete, they will likely have a separate identity managed by that company to access their file shares. The ability to uploa