BeyondCorp Paper (2014)

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“BeyondCorp: A New Approach to Enterprise Security” (2014) — Ward, Beyer

Describes Google’s shift from perimeter-based security to zero-trust. Key principles: the network is not trusted, access depends on user and device credentials, all access is authenticated/authorized/encrypted. Launched the industry-wide zero-trust movement. Multiple follow-up papers detail the implementation.


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