This document shows how employees of an organization can install the Endpoint Verification
extension on their devices.

As an employee of an organization, you can access your corporate account on a
company-owned device or a personal device. To ensure that you can securely
access your organization's data from any of your devices, the administrator of your
organization might either install Endpoint Verification on your devices or require
you to install the Endpoint Verification Chrome extension on your devices.

## Before you begin

Ensure that your device is running one of the following operating systems:


- ChromeOS
- Apple® Mac® OS X® El Capitan (10.11) or later
- Microsoft® Windows® 10 and 11
- Linux® Debian® and Ubuntu®

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## Install the Endpoint Verification extension

1. Open the Chrome browser and install the [Endpoint Verification extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/endpoint-verification/callobklhcbilhphinckomhgkigmfocg).
2. On the browser toolbar, if you see Exception ![exception bubble](https://docs.cloud.google.com/endpoint-verification/images/exception.png) on the extension, click the extension to open it.
3. If prompted, click **Add account** and enter your corporate email
   address and password.

   > [!NOTE]
   > **Note:** For the devices running ChromeOS, only the account that is used to sign in to the device is supported.

   Information about your computer automatically synchronizes to your
   administrator.
4. If you want to manually sync information, on the toolbar, click
   **Endpoint Verification \> Sync now**.

## Install the Endpoint Verification helper app

After installing the Endpoint Verification extension, if you see a message that the
helper app is required on your device, do the following:

### Mac or Windows

1. Click **Install it**.

2. Follow the steps to install the helper app.

3. Click the extension again and then click **Sync now**.

### Linux

1. To open a terminal, click **Activities** and enter `terminal`,
   and select the terminal icon from the results.

2. Add the package source and import the key:

   1. Create the `keyrings` directory:

      ```bash
      sudo mkdir -m 0755 -p /etc/apt/keyrings/
      ```
   2. Import Google's public GPG key and convert it to a binary
      that is required for package verification:

      ```bash
      curl -fsSL https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/endpoint-verification.gpg
      ```
   3. Register Endpoint Verification to use the GPG key to verify the
      authenticity of the software:

      ```bash
      echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/endpoint-verification.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt endpoint-verification main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/endpoint-verification.list > /dev/null
      ```
3. Update and install Endpoint Verification:

   1. Update the package index files to get the latest list of available packages:

      ```bash
      sudo apt-get update
      ```
   2. Install Endpoint Verification:

      ```bash
      sudo apt-get install endpoint-verification
      ```
4. Open the Chrome browser and on the toolbar, click
   **Endpoint Verification \> Sync now**.

## What's next

- [Troubleshoot issues with Endpoint Verification](https://docs.cloud.google.com/endpoint-verification/docs/troubleshoot-issues-user.md.txt)
- [Uninstall the Endpoint Verification extension](https://docs.cloud.google.com/endpoint-verification/docs/uninstall-ev.md.txt)