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At its Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas , Google on Tuesday extended its Chrome Enterprise product suite with the launching of Chrome Enterprise Premium .
Google has long offer an enterprisingness - centric version of its Chrome web web browser . With Chrome Enterprise , IT departments get the power to manage employees ’ browser app configurations , the annex they install and web apps they use , for example . More importantly , though , they also get a number of new security system controls around data release bar , malware protection , phishing prevention and the Zero Trust memory access to SaaS apps .
Chrome Enterprise Premium , which will cost $ 6 / exploiter / calendar month , mostly stretch the security potentiality of the existing service , base on the insight that browsers are now the endpoints where most of the high - value work inside a company is done .
“ hallmark , entree , communication and collaboration , organisation , and even befool are all browser app - based activities in the modern endeavor , ” Parisa Tabriz , Google ’s VP for Chrome , wrote in Tuesday ’s announcement . “ Endpoint security is grow more ambitious due to remote oeuvre , trust on an extended work force , and the proliferation of unexampled devices that are n’t part of an arrangement ’s make out fleet . As these trend continue to quicken and converge , it ’s clear that the web internet browser is a rude enforcement point in time for endpoint security in the modern endeavor . ”
These new features include extra go-ahead controls to implement policies and manage software package updates and extensions , as well as new security report features and forensic capabilities that can be integrate with third - party security tools . Chrome Enterprise Premium takes Zero Trust a tone further with context of use - aware admission restraint that can also mitigate the risk of data outflow . This includes approved applications and those that were not O.K. by the IT section .
“ With Chrome Enterprise Premium , we have self-assurance in Google ’s certificate expertness , including Project Zero ’s cutting - sharpness protection research and debauched security patches . We fix up data loss prevention restrictions and monition for sharing sensitive information in app like generative AI platforms and noticed a notable 50 % reduction in contentedness transfer of training , ” said Nick Reva , head of corporate security engineering at Snap .
The new service is now generally available .
