Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2024. In this update, we'll give a list of some of the major announcements of security products and security enhancements to Google Cloud. There's an even longer list here. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter …
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for March 2024. Today, Brian Roddy, vice president of security product management, Google Cloud, talks about some of the important cybersecurity hot topics that will be driving our announcements at Google Cloud Next in April. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for March 2024. Today I’ll be highlighting a section from our newest Perspectives on Security for the Board report, focusing on the importance of developing psychological resilience in cybersecurity leadership. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for February 2024. Today I’ll be looking at our latest Threat Horizons report, which provides a forward-thinking view of cloud security with intelligence on emerging threats and actionable recommendations from Google's security experts. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives of the year, and the first of our two newsletters for January. Today I’ll be discussing some of the important changes to the Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure rules as outlined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2023. Today I’ll be providing an update to our cloud security megatrends blog. First published in January 2022, the premise of cloud security megatrends is that there were eight “megatrends” that drive technological innovation. It’s become clear that …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2023. Google Cloud has announced multiple collaborations with sector-specific information sharing and analysis centers over the past 18 months, and in my column today I’ll be discussing why these ISACs are valuable partners for Google Cloud and our industry …
This year, Google has seen an increase in the number of vulnerabilities impacting central processing units (CPU) across hardware systems. Two of the most notable of these vulnerabilities were disclosed in August, when Google researchers discovered Downfall ( CVE-2022-40982 ) and Zenbleed ( CVE-2023-20593 ), affecting Intel and AMD CPUs, respectively. This trend …
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2023. This month, David Stone and Anton Chuvakin, colleagues from our Office of the CISO, are talking about what security and business leaders need to know about securing our multicloud present and future. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2023. This month, I’ll be discussing the increasingly-important (and often undervalued) organizational skill of crisis communications — and how boards can help prepare their organizations for the inevitable. Effective crisis communications was a central pillar of our third Perspectives on …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2023. I’ll be talking about what I’m looking forward to at this year’s mWISE Conference, which opens its doors on Monday in Washington, D.C. It’s one of the most unique conferences a security professional or …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2023. I’ll be talking about what I’m looking forward to at this year’s mWISE Conference, which opens its doors on Monday in Washington, D.C. It’s one of the most unique conferences a security professional or …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2023. Today I’ll be discussing why I consider myself a short-term pessimist, long-term optimist when it comes to cybersecurity — which may come as a surprise to many. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are …
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2023. Security, privacy, and protecting data is one of the major drivers behind the accelerated transformations in healthcare. Cyber threats to healthcare are on the rise, including compromised access and data, ransomware, and exploitation of vulnerabilities — and not enough is …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2023. Today, I’ll be asking my colleague Royal Hansen, vice president of Privacy, Safety, and Security Engineering at Google, about AI, security, and risk topics. This year has been a banner year for artificial intelligence (AI), and especially for …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2023. Earlier this week, we held our annual Google Cloud Security Summit, an online gathering where we discuss the latest technologies and strategies that can help protect your business, your customers, and your cloud transformation from emerging threats. If you …
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2023. I hope you all enjoyed our previous newsletter from my Office of the CISO colleague MK Palmore, on Google’s new cybersecurity certification and how it can help prepare aspiring cybersecurity experts for their next career steps. Before I …
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2023. This is our first month moving to a twice-monthly cadence, with a guest column today from my friend and the CEO of Mandiant, Kevin Mandia. Mandiant, the company Kevin founded in 2004, was acquired by Google last year. At …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2023. This is our first month moving to a twice-monthly cadence, with a guest column at the end of April from my friend and colleague, Kevin Mandia. Today, I’d like to talk about the newest report from the Google …
Welcome to Cloud CISO Perspectives for March 2023. The Biden-Harris Administration released its National Cybersecurity Strategy on March 2, so this month I’d like to discuss how the strategy aligns with our approach to security at Google Cloud. While the strategy is intended to guide American cybersecurity efforts …
Welcome to February’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we’re going to take a look at one of the most important issues our industry faces right now: securing the software supply chain. At Google Cloud, we’ve been heavily invested in creating a layered approach to software supply …
Welcome to January’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we’re going to catch up with a few of the cloud security megatrends that I described a year ago, and see how they and the cloud security landscape has evolved. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of …
When we closed the Mandiant acquisition in September 2022, we set the expectation that we’d be investing heavily in cybersecurity offerings that can help customers mitigate risk. In the short time since our two companies came together, we’ve aimed to do just that. Today, we are announcing …
Welcome to December’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we’re going to look back at the most important security lessons of 2022 with my colleagues in our Office of the CISO and on the Google Cybersecurity Action Team. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this …
Welcome to November’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. I’d like to celebrate the first year of the Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) and look ahead to the team’s goals for 2023. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud …