Why are so many companies moving to the cloud? One reason we hear quite often is cost reduction. The elasticity of cloud services, or its ability to scale up or down as needed, means paying only for what you use. Right up there on the list of reasons is …

Over the past few years, Google has observed that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are increasing in frequency and growing in size exponentially. Today’s internet-facing workloads are at constant risk of attack with impacts ranging from degraded performance and user experience for legitimate users, to increased operating and hosting …

Every student and educator deserves access to learning tools that are private and secure. Google Workspace for Education and Chromebooks have positively transformed teaching and learning, while creating safe learning environments for more than 170 million students and educators around the world. Our education products are built with data …

A critical component of any security operations team’s job is to deliver high-fidelity detections of potential threats across the breadth of adversary tactics. But increasingly sophisticated threat actors, an expanding attack surface, and an ever-present cybersecurity talent shortage make this task more challenging than ever. Google keeps more …

Diagnosing and treating chronic pain can be complex, difficult, and full of uncertainties for a patient and their treating physician. Depending on the condition of the patient and the knowledge of the physician, making the correct diagnosis takes time, and experimenting with different treatments might be required. This trial-and-error …

If you’re new to Security Talks, you should know that this program is part of an ongoing series where we bring together experts from the Google Cloud security team, including the Google Cybersecurity Action Team and Office of the CISO, and the greater industry to share information on …

“Ninety percent of all data today was created in the last two years—that’s 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day,” according to business data analytics company Domo. That would be a mind-bending statistic, except that it’s already five years old. As data usage has undergone …

“Any device, anytime, anywhere.” A cohort of CIOs within Airbus believed that the cloud, combined with new ways of working, could provide the foundation for this vision. Google Workspace and Google Cloud have played a pivotal role in helping Airbus realize this new path, transforming security, data management, and …

Google is one of the largest identity providers on the Internet. Users rely on our identity systems to log into Google’s own offerings, as well as third-party apps and services. For our business customers, we provide administratively managed Google accounts that can be used to access Google Workspace …

De-identification of Cloud Storage just got easier Many organizations require effective processes and techniques for removing or obfuscating certain sensitive information in the data they store. An important tool to achieve this goal is de-identification. Defined by NIST as a technique that “removes identifying information from a dataset so …

The use of digital certificates to establish trust across our digital infrastructure continues to grow at a rapid pace, driven by development and deployment of cloud-based, containerized, microservice-based applications and the proliferation of connected Internet of Things and smart devices. Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service (CAS) provides a highly …

As enterprise and public sector cloud adoption continues to accelerate, having an accurate picture of who did what in your cloud environment is important for security and compliance purposes. Logs are critical when you are attempting to detect a breach, investigating ongoing security issues, or performing forensic investigations. These …

Editor's note : This blog was originally published by Siemplify on Oct. 29, 2019. Much the same way that nursing teams need to share patient healthcare updates when their shift ends, security operations centers (SOC) need to have smooth shift-handoff procedures in place to ensure that continuous monitoring of their …

The cybersecurity industry is faced with the tremendous challenge of analyzing growing volumes of security data in a dynamic threat landscape with evolving adversary behaviors. Today’s security data is heterogeneous, including logs and alerts, and often comes from more than one cloud platform. In order to better analyze …

Google has more than 20 years of experience protecting its core service from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and from the most advanced web application attacks. With Cloud Armor, we have enabled our customers to benefit from our extensive experience of protecting our globally distributed products such as …

Editor's note : This blog was originally published by Siemplify on Feb. 19, 2021. The number of unfilled cybersecurity jobs stretches into the millions, and a critical part of the problem is the length of time it takes to backfill a position. Industry group ISACA has found that the average …

Welcome to this month’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. Starting with this issue, we’re going to add even more top-of-mind content based on the hot topics we see emerge across the industry and with our customers, globally. Today, we're focusing on the evolving relationship between an organization's boardroom and …

Preventing data breaches is an important priority when creating and managing database environments. Ensuring user and application passwords meet high security standards is crucial for reducing risk and helping to achieve compliance with best practices and regulatory standards. To address these concerns, we are thrilled to announce the general …

What’s the most difficult question a security operations team can face? For some, is it, “Who is trying to attacks us?” Or perhaps, “Which cyberattacks can we detect?” How do teams know when they have enough information to make the “right” decision? Metrics can help inform our responses …

What’s the most difficult question a security operations team can face? For some, is it, “Who is trying to attacks us?” Or perhaps, “Which cyberattacks can we detect?” How do teams know when they have enough information to make the “right” decision? Metrics can help inform our responses …

Editor's note : This blog was originally published by Siemplify on April 29, 2021. With cybersecurity moving from backroom to boardroom, and the societal imperative that workplace cultures renounce toxicity for more sensitivity and tolerance, there is a rapidly-growing call for empathy to pervade the infosec function, from the CISO …

Recently, Datatilsynet (the Danish Data Protection Authority) issued a ruling emphasizing the importance of conducting proper due diligence before implementing cloud services. We agree due diligence is an important step for customers since privacy assessments and outcomes can vary significantly based on the way customers have configured their system …

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced the results of the first report from the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) on the log4j software library vulnerabilities discovered in late 2021. Google welcomed the opportunity to participate in the development of the CSRB report and share our …

Building a resilient healthcare ecosystem is not something done within a vacuum. It takes motivated organizations and people working together in a community of trust to build and defend effectively. We believe the more diverse these communities are, the more effective they can be. Last August, Google announced its …

Editor's note : This blog was originally published by Siemplify on October 6, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many organizations’ timelines to transition to the cloud and advance their digital transformation efforts. The potential attack surfaces for those organizations also grew as newly distributed workforces used unmanaged technologies. While some …