Google Anywhere+ Deployment Guide V1.0.1 - Manual (Page 3)

ANYWHERE+ DEPLOYMENT GUIDE V1.0.1
ANYWHERE+ DEPLOYMENT GUIDE V1.0.1 PAGE 3
Introduction
The number of employees who work outside the traditional office is rapidly increasing
and perhaps surprisingly now constitutes the majority for many businesses. According to
Gartner, 50-70% of the US workforce may now be classified as roaming or remote
workers. This trend, coupled with the need for ‘always-on’ connectivity, means the
network boundary is now ‘elastic’ and the traditional fixed network perimeter is
becoming irrelevant.
Roaming employees now connect to the Internet from a variety of locations – from
their homes and client offices to airport lounges and hotel hotspots.
However, the benefits of employees working the outside the office are tempered by
some obvious problems, chief of which is lower levels of security and increased
vulnerability to Web malware. As a result, cyber criminals are now increasingly
targeting laptop users, encouraged by research showing that laptop computers with
business information store an average of $525,000* worth of sensitive data.
Employees then return to the office with malware infected machines, which then
spreads through the network with ease.
IT administrators have little or no control over roaming employees’ access to
inappropriate web content. This situation is not helped by the fact that roaming
employees are five times more likely to access inappropriate content on the road than
in the office. And even more worrying is that roaming employees only use VPNs 17%
of their browsing time. How are they controlled and protected the other 83% of the
time?
Traditional solutions to these problems include extending Web security software and
appliances out to endpoints through client agents. This increases cost, management
overheads and can require backhauling, which results in latency and increased
bandwidth costs.
Anywhere+ is the Web security-as-a-service for real-time protection and policy
enforcement for your roaming employees. With Anywhere+ it is finally possible to
protect your roaming employees wherever they are working.
Unlike traditional approaches which rely on software and appliances, Anywhere+ is
delivered as a service for complete security, reduced complexity and simplified user
management.
Anywhere+ removes the performance issues and bandwidth congestion associated
with backhauling Web traffic over the corporate VPN, so your security perimeter is
now anywhere you want it to be.
The Anywhere+ service extends our award-winning Web malware scanning and Web
filtering services to your roaming and remote employees ensuring they no longer act
as an open bridge into your internal network. Stop all threats in the cloud wherever the
user.