Advancing Protection in Chrome on Android

Posted by David Adrian, Javier Castro & Peter Kotwicz, Chrome Security Team Android recently announced Advanced Protection , which extends Google’s Advanced Protection Program to a device-level security setting for Android users that need heightened security—such as journalists, elected officials, and public figures. Advanced Protection gives you the ability to activate Google’s strongest security for mobile devices, providing greater peace of mind that you’re better protected against the most sophisticated threats. Advanced Protection acts as a single control point for at-risk users on Android that enables important security settings across applications, including many of your favorite Google apps, including Chrome. In this post, we’d like to do a deep dive into the Chrome features that are integrated with Advanced Protection, and how enterprises and users outside of Advanced Protection can leverage them.

Reduces attack surface by disabling Javascript optimizations, so that Chrome has a smaller attack surface and is harder to exploit.

Reduces attack surface by disabling Javascript optimizations, so that Chrome has a smaller attack surface and is harder to exploit.

Desktop Chrome clients already have full Site Isolation. Let’s take a look at all three, learn what they do, and how they can be controlled outside of Advanced Protection.