Google expanded its Chrome Enterprise product suite Tuesday with Chrome Enterprise Premium at the Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas.
Google has long offered an enterprise version of its Chrome browser. Chrome Enterprise gives IT the ability to manage an employee's browser settings, which extensions he installs, which web apps he uses, and more. But more importantly, you also get many new security controls for data loss prevention, malware protection, phishing prevention, and zero-trust access to SaaS apps.
Priced at $6 per user per month, Chrome Enterprise Premium primarily extends the security features of existing services based on the insight that most of the high-value work in the enterprise is now done in browser endpoints. Masu.
“In the modern enterprise, authentication, access, communication and collaboration, management, and even coding are all browser-based activities,” Paris Tabriz, Google's vice president of Chrome, said in Tuesday's announcement. “Endpoint security is becoming increasingly challenging due to remote work, reliance on external talent, and the proliferation of new devices that are not part of an organization's managed fleet. As these trends continue to accelerate and converge, , it is clear that the browser is a natural application point for endpoint security in the modern enterprise.”
These new features include additional enterprise controls for enforcing policies and managing software updates and extensions, as well as new security reporting and forensics capabilities that can be integrated with third-party security tools. Chrome Enterprise Premium takes Zero Trust one step further with context-aware access controls that can also reduce the risk of data breaches. This includes approved applications and applications that were not approved by your IT department.
“At Chrome Enterprise Premium, we're confident in Google's security expertise, including Project Zero's cutting-edge security research and rapid security patching. Data loss prevention when sharing sensitive information in applications like the Generative AI platform. When we set limits and warnings for , we saw a remarkable 50% reduction in content transfers,” said Nick Reva, Head of Enterprise Security Engineering at Snap.
The new service is now generally available.