Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2024. Today I’m discussing new AI vulnerabilities that Google’s security teams discovered and helped fix, and why it’s important for AI vendors to share vulnerability research impacting their technology. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents …
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2024. Today, Google Cloud’s Vinod D’Souza and Chris Cornillie examine the vital role that CISOs play in working with cloud providers to improve their organization’s incident preparedness. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2024. Today I’m taking a look at how our initiatives to drive cybersecurity collaboration across industries, regulators and governments, IT consortia, and researchers and universities can help make everyone safer online. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2024. Today I’m adapting our upcoming Perspectives on Security for the Board report. It examines three key cybersecurity topics from the vantage of the board of directors: multifactor authentication, digital sovereignty, and — the one I’ll be focusing on …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2024. Today I’m adapting our upcoming Perspectives on Security for the Board report. It examines three key cybersecurity topics from the vantage of the board of directors: multifactor authentication, digital sovereignty, and — the one I’ll be focusing on …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2024. Today I’m adapting our upcoming Perspectives on Security for the Board report. It examines three key cybersecurity topics from the vantage of the board of directors: multifactor authentication, digital sovereignty, and — the one I’ll be focusing on …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2024. Today I’m addressing the important and complex issue of budgets for security teams, a topic I’ve tackled on my personal blog that I’m presenting here for the first time. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2024. In this update, I’m reviewing three of the more promising use cases for AI in cybersecurity. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading …
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2024. In this update, I’ll review my RSA Conference fireside chat with Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this …
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 …