INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Mobile Technology
Lookout joins Google Cloud’s
BeyondCorp Alliance for visibility
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ookout, a leader in securing the post-perimeter world, has
announced that it has joined Google Cloud’s BeyondCorp
Alliance as one of the only mobile threat defence vendors,
giving organisations the ability to dynamically monitor the health
of an endpoint connected to the enterprise and feed that data to
Google Cloud’s context-aware access engine. Lookout, alongside
Google’s Cloud Identity, ensures only trusted mobile devices are
accessing enterprise data and apps via Cloud Identity.
“To secure the cloud-first, mobile-first world, enterprises need
to adopt a post-perimeter solution that includes endpoint
protection, secure access to the cloud as well as identity and access
management (IAM),” said Marc Jaffan, Vice President, Business and
Corporate Development at Lookout. “By joining the BeyondCorp
Alliance, Lookout securely enables mobile productivity for Google’s
Cloud Identity, G Suite and Google Cloud Platform customers,
and furthers our vision to provide security and productivity for the
modern, perimeter-less, cloud-delivered and privacy-focused world.”
Lookout is also a Google Cloud Technology Partner and earlier
this year, Lookout announced the launch of the Post-Perimeter
Security Alliance with Google Cloud and other members, to address
a pressing challenge for enterprises: how to integrate security
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capabilities across endpoint, cloud and identity to protect access
to corporate data while enabling productivity. Today, organisations
are adopting formal mobility programmes as a way to empower
employee productivity, and Google’s Cloud Identity has become
one of the main ways for employees to access enterprise
applications from mobile devices.
Lookout and Cloud Identity help ensure:
• Device health – Together, Lookout and Cloud Identity help verify
that a device is healthy enough to access applications and single
sign-on (SSO) platforms
• Automated detection and remediation – Lookout provides
device health information (for example, if the device has an
app that violates security policy) to Cloud Identity and admin
can then take appropriate remediation action. This includes the
ability to block access to G Suite and other enterprise apps on
unmanaged devices based on Lookout risk status
• Threat visibility – Enterprises have full visibility into out-of-date
operating systems, as well as into risky device configurations and
jailbreak/root detections
• Phishing protection – With Lookout, Cloud Identity customers
can monitor and block mobile attempts from web and content-
based threats n
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