I commend the Google team for not only deploying an effective and innovative security solution, but also for contributing to security community through this ser

I commend the Google team for not only deploying an effective and innovative security solution, but also for contributing to security community through this series of informative articles. Enterprises need to know that while BeyondCorp is Google-specific, there are similar types of open architectures that they can deploy today, most notably the Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP). SDP is an open architecture from the Cloud Security Alliance, and with it security teams can ensure that: . All users are authenticated and authorized BEFORE they can access network resources . Network resources are inaccessible to unauthorized users, dramatically reducing the attack surface . Fine-grained policies control access for all users – remote and on-premises – to all resources , whether physical, virtual, or cloud . All network traffic is encrypted, even if the underlying protocol is insecure Here’s a video of me presenting on Software-Defined Perimeter at the CSA Summit at the 2017 RSA Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysi_9c5fmBg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysi_9c5fmBg and a brief overview from our corporate site https://www.cryptzone.com/products/appgate/why-a-software-defined-perimeter https://www.cryptzone.com/products/appgate/why-a-software-de... Disclaimer: I led the CSA’s Software-Defined Perimeter working group publication of SDP-for-IaaS, and am leading the current effort to create an SDP Architecture Guide. I also work at Cryptzone, an SDP platform vendor.