Investing in clever ways to keep Flash alive is not in the long-term, best-interests of your organization as a whole. Sooner or later the cost of having custom parts hand-crafted because replacements no longer exist is going to push you into buying something that has a lower cost of operation. You can keep a 30 year old car running, but the cost of operation just keeps getting higher. 'We can't do it this year.' is a valid response, but it has to be followed up with an additional layer of defense. 'Never' can't be a business-appropriate timeline for technology retirement. If your management refuses to discuss replacement then shift the discussion to containment and defense in depth.Ĭan you put this thing (whatever it is) behind another firewall? I applaud your creativity for thinking up clever ways to help your users continue using old technologies.īut you need to elevate the visibility & awareness of the security risks presented by those technologies.įlash is about to become an even more desirable point of entry for penetrating your environment. You should have started this initiative about 3 years ago. Now that Flash is EoL what was one of the highest security risks in all of our industry is about to become an exponentially larger and more serious security risk.Īnything you have that needs flash needs to be replaced. With flash going EOL and Google Chrome to drop support in 88+, what are you doing for sites that need it? My workaround is to leverage Citrix to publish Chrome 87 with Adobe Flash PPAPI, use Chrome group policy to disable updates and lock down this instance of Chrome so that only the specific website can be accessed. UPDATE #1: I appreciate all the responses and while I agree Flash needs to die and not put on life support workarounds, however in some edge cases there are no other options (as is the case for our users accessing a 3rd party website we have NO control over).

Dev channel Chrome with auto-update disabled?.What are some solutions to keep flash alive? but as many of you we have portals our users must continue to access that use flash for business needs - and there are no plans to upgrade these portals in the near future. In Chrome (up to 87) Flash comes as an add-in, and it is no longer there in 88+ (dev) since Adobe Flash went EOL. In the Enterprise we have Google Chrome along with Edge Chromium.

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