Cisco Duo Announces Agentless Native Integration With Google Chrome Enterprise
Cisco Duo plays pivotal role in safeguarding identities for organizations of all sizes and industries, providing a simple way to defend against identity-based attacks. However, challenges to zero trust security still exist; organizations must maintain strong security in mixed-IT environments while balancing increases in staffing, spending and agent fatigue.
In collaboration with Google Chrome Enterprise, Cisco Duo is excited to introduce the general availability of Duo's native Device Trust integration with Chrome Enterprise and ChromeOS to address these concerns, empowering organizations through agent-free device trust across all three major platforms: Windows, Mac and ChromeOS.
Announcing Duo Device Trust Connector for Chrome Enterprise and Chrome OS
According to Duo’s 2024 Trusted Access Report, 62% of desktop authentications were made from Chrome. With many users already utilizing Chrome browser to get work done, Duo’s partnership with Chrome Enterprise strikes a balance of security and user experience.
With a Chrome Enterprise-managed browser, the browser itself provides device posture signals. Traditionally, establishing device trust often involved deploying and managing endpoint agents, a process that could slow down onboarding and add administrative overhead. Duo’s Device Trust integration with Chrome Enterprise eliminates this pain point with an out-of-the-box, cloud-delivered integration. Duo's integration with Chrome Enterprise provides attestation of the device identity using Duo Trusted Endpoints policy before enabling access. This is Duo’s second Chrome Enterprise Recommended solution and an updated solution of Google Verified Access.
“Traditionally, establishing device trust often involved deploying and managing endpoint agents, a process that could slow down onboarding and add administrative overhead. Duo’s Device Trust integration with Chrome Enterprise eliminates this pain point with an out-of-the-box, cloud-delivered integration.”
Let’s take a look at how it works!
How Duo’s Device Trust integration protects your organization
As enterprises continue to become more reliant on the browser, more sensitive data is being stored in the cloud. It is more important than ever to protect your user identities and ensure your resources are only being accessed by managed devices.
Cisco Duo integrates seamlessly with Chrome’s implementation of zero trust to help organizations secure application access. Duo utilizes device signals provided by Chrome to verify Device Trust to increase security posture. Encrypted signals are delivered to Duo via a real-time HTTP header flow. Based on technical validation, Duo's integration is recommended by Chrome Enterprise.
For Chrome Enterprise customers, Duo's native integration with the browser offers administrators an easier approach to enforce device trust without the need to deploy an agent or install an extension on Mac or Windows machines.
Duo’s first Chrome Enterprise Recommended integration with Google Verified Access for ChromeOS utilized a browser extension for delivery. This latest integration connects Duo with Chrome Enterprise Core, offering a streamlined user experience from ChromeOS. It allows for SAML-based single sign-on (SSO), and device trust is enforced instantly at login.
Advantages of Duo and Google Chrome Enterprise
Agentless Deployment — Simplify deployment and reduce risks of transitional downtime through tested cloud delivery.
Stronger Security — Verify device trust at every login attempt, and limit access to only known devices and browsers.
Enhanced User Experience — Streamline user experience and boost productivity with an integration that secures access from any location.
Wide OS Support — Deploy Duo Device Trust across Windows, MacOS and ChromeOS from a single Google Admin panel (Chrome Enterprise).
Ease of Management — Less to manage in a centralized Duo dashboard, with granular policy adjustments for organizations of any size.
Duo Trusted Endpoints with DTC offers a powerful, agentless approach to device trust. Start customizing your zero trust strategy by enforcing device trust on your most sensitive application(s) or a particular group of users with Duo’s granular policies. Leverage Google Chrome Enterprise Core to effortlessly configure your devices, and manage access for your Windows, Mac and ChromeOS devices centrally through Duo's intuitive Admin Panel.
Read our documentation page to get started setting up Duo with DTC. And to see additional ways Duo customers can secure their users across Google’s ecosystem, please visit our Cisco Duo + Google partner page.
Want to learn more about additional Cisco Security Chrome Enterprise Recommended solutions?
Splunk’s Chrome Enterprise Recommended Chrome Security & Reporting connector provides additional security insights.
Cisco Security for Chromebook — part of Cisco Umbrella and Cisco’s Security Service Edge (SSE) product family — provides DNS-layer security for the entire ChromeOS and secure web gateway (SWG) protection for the Chrome browser.