Forticlient VPN Android - Can it use Google Chrome for Context Aware Access internally?

[stuming]

Hi

The company I work for has rolled out FortiVPN globally. We mainly use Macbooks but there are a few die-hard Chromebook / ChromeOS users still out there.

Chromebooks can use Android apps and there is a Forticlient VPN Android app which could be used, but currently it doesn't work because, according to our IT team, "we use context aware access which requires Google Chrome, whereas the Forticlient VPN uses its own inbuilt browser".

Can anyone suggest a workaround for this limitation? Or is the only fix for Fortinet to update the Forticlient VPN Android to use Google Chrome? Which I suspect is very unlikely to happen.

Thanks

Stuart

[adambomb1219]

What is "FortiVPN"?  Is FortiSASE an option for this use-case?

[stuming]

FortiClient VPN for Android lets your android device create a secure VPN connection via IPSec or SSL tunnel to a FortiGate firewall.

Or it would if the application used Chrome instead of its own proprietary browser.

[adambomb1219]

I'm still not sure what you are asking?  ChromeOS is not Android based...  It is an extremely locked down operating system

[stuming]

ChromeOS runs Android applications that are available on Google Play. I have been running Open VPN, the Android application, on my Chromebook for the last year in order to connect to the work VPN.

Now we have moved from Open VPN to FortiOS and we need an application that will run on ChromeOS to connect to the VPN.

FortiVPN for Android runs on ChromeOS. It doesn't work because it doesn't support SSL VPN SAML with an external Chrome browser.

Is there a workaround for this limitation?

FFYI: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/7021273

[adambomb1219]

Don't use SAML then. 

[stuming]

... so no, there is no workaround then? OK. Thanks.