Re:BeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee A...
by puzzle on Monday January 22, 2018 @12:17PM
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BYOD is possible to at least some degree, with devices like Chromebooks. A few years ago, I was able to use my personal Chromebook to access internal sites. I tried just a few. The sole requirements I remember were a stock install of the OS, a work profile and a Yubikey.
Re:BeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee A...
by pkcsecurity on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:05PM
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> A lot of this discussion glosses over the fact that U2F really makes this a viable system.
This. Really, BeyondCorp is only amazing insofar as it takes full advantage of U2F. U2F is the real (and lasting) innovation we're looking at here.
Re:BeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee A...
by e12e on Monday January 22, 2018 @05:46PM
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> A lot of this discussion glosses over the fact that U2F really makes this a viable system. U2F solves the MITM problem and ensures that the anyone who logs in (…)
Makes viable: certainly; solves: not so sure. Session hi-jack doesn't magically cease to be a problem.
I don't think beyondcorp necessarily changes your incident response story, assuming you already have one.
A lot of this discussion glosses over the fact that U2F really makes this a viable system. U2F solves the MITM problem and ensures that the anyone who logs in does so with a company-issued hardware authenticator in physical communication (usually USB, but maybe also NFC or Bluetooth) with the client device. This means that even in a byod story, there's a piece of corp-issued hardware always attached. This in turn means that impersonation requires physical device theft in addition to credential theft.