Google Cloud recently achieved a major U.S. government compliance milestone with more than 130 services, including 12 additional Cloud Networking services, approved for FedRAMP High authorization — the strictest standard for protecting the most sensitive unclassified data. To help our customers securely deploy a network architecture that aligns with …
Organizations collect vast amounts of data to create innovative solutions, perform ground breaking research, or optimize their designs. With this comes the responsibility to ensure data is adequately protected to meet regulatory, compliance, contractual or internal security requirements. For organizations that want to move their data warehouses from on-premises …
At Google, we have always believed in the power of choice in how we build and make our technology available to our customers. The power of choice becomes even more critical for organizations to meet constantly evolving digital sovereignty requirements while accelerating and optimizing their move to the cloud …
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2024. In this update, Mandiant founder and outgoing CEO Kevin Mandia shares the highlights from his keynote address at the RSA Conference earlier this month. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the …
At Google Cloud, we've long demonstrated our commitment to responsible AI development and transparency in our work to support safer and more accountable products, earn and keep our customers’ trust, and foster a culture of responsible innovation. We understand that AI comes with complexities and risks, and to ensure …
Google Cloud's commitment to empower federal agencies with advanced technology reached a significant milestone this week with the addition of more than 100 new FedRAMP High authorized cloud services. Customers in the U.S. government and commercial organizations supplying the U.S. government can now use popular Google Cloud …
A Google Cloud incident earlier this month impacted our customer, UniSuper, in Australia. While our first priority was to work with our customer to get them fully operational, soon after the incident started, we publicly acknowledged the incident in a joint statement with the customer. With our customer’s …
The security of the software supply chain is a complex undertaking for modern enterprises. Securing the software supply chain, particularly build artifacts like container images, is a crucial step in enhancing overall security. To provide built-in, centralized visibility into your applications, we are introducing software supply chain security insights …
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 …
At Google, we’re always evolving our security capabilities and practices to make our cloud the most trusted cloud. As part of this continued effort, Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) recently released even stronger security defaults that can help you bolster the baseline security and control …
We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). Participating for the first time in the Magic Quadrant for SIEM, we have been positioned as a Visionary because of our powerful search …
The advent of generative AI has unlocked new opportunities to empower defenders and security professionals. We have already seen how AI can transform malware analysis at scale as we work to deliver better outcomes for defenders. In fact, using Gemini 1.5 Pro, we were recently able to reverse …
The modern workplace relies on web-based applications and cloud services, making browsers and their sensitive data a primary target for attackers. While the risks are significant, Chrome Enterprise can help organizations simplify and strengthen their endpoint security with secure enterprise browsing. Following our recent Chrome Enterprise Premium launch, today …
In the generative AI-era, security teams are looking for a fully-operational, high-performing security operations solution that can drive productivity while empowering defenders to detect and mitigate new threats. Today at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, we’re announcing AI innovations across the Google Cloud Security portfolio, including Google …
For decades, threat intelligence solutions have had two main challenges: They lack a comprehensive view of the threat landscape, and to get value from intelligence, organizations have to spend excess time, energy, and money trying to collect and operationalize the data. Today at the RSA Conference in San Francisco …
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2024. In this update, my colleague Sunil Potti gives a leaders’ tour of Security Command Center Enterprise — and how it can help security teams better manage risk across their growing cloud deployments. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents …
Written by: Matthew McWhirt, Omar ElAhdan, Glenn Staniforth, Brian Meyer Multi-faceted extortion via ransomware and/or data theft is a popular end goal for attackers, representing a global threat targeting organizations in all industries. The impact of a successful ransomware event can be material to an organization, including the …
Executive Summary A growing amount of malware has naturally increased workloads for defenders and particularly malware analysts, creating a need for improved automation and approaches to dealing with this classic threat. With the recent rise in generative AI tools, we decided to put our own Gemini 1.5 Pro …
At Google Cloud, we understand you have a diverse set of regulatory, compliance, and sovereignty needs. We strive to provide you with the controls you need and the flexibility to meet your requirements. We offer a range of customizable control packages, so you can choose the level of control …
At Google Cloud Security, our goal is to make it easier for organizations to adopt and protect themselves with advanced security capabilities. Instead of increasing complexity by adding new products every time a new threat or new requirement emerges, we introduce simplicity by removing parts: No more duplicative tools …
Written by: Kelli Vanderlee, Jamie Collier Executive Summary The election cybersecurity landscape globally is characterized by a diversity of targets, tactics, and threats. Elections attract threat activity from a variety of threat actors including: state-sponsored actors, cyber criminals, hacktivists, insiders, and information operations as-a-service entities. Mandiant assesses with high …
At Google, we build sustainable, secure, and scalable hardware and software to enable services that support billions of users. We have embraced open innovation as a core tenet to deliver these experiences. Our society’s AI-driven future includes many types of system-on-chips (SoCs) acting in concert with each other …
Attackers are taking greater strides to evade detection. This is one of the running themes in our latest release: M-Trends 2024. This edition of our annual report continues our tradition of providing relevant attacker and defender metrics, and insights into the latest attacker tactics, techniques and procedures, along with …
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 …
Google Cloud is on a mission to help everyone build the skills they need for in-demand cloud jobs. Today, we're excited to announce new learning opportunities that will help you gain these in-demand skills through new courses and certificates in AI, data analytics, and cybersecurity. Even better, we’re …