Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2023. To close out the year, I’m sharing what attracted the most interest from our security updates this year, and Nick Godfrey from our Office of the CISO presents a selection of forward-looking insights from the Office of the …
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 second Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2023. This month, Mandiant Consulting’s Earl Matthews discusses Security Validation, a vital tool that can give CISOs better information for making security decisions, and can help organizations understand their true security posture and risk profile. As with all Cloud …
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 …
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 second Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2023. This month, I’m turning the mic over to my colleague Eric Brewer, Google Cloud’s vice president of infrastructure and Google Fellow, to explain the importance of this year’s Securing Open Source Software Summit and why securing …
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 second Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2023. As you read this, we’ll be kicking off the third and final day of Google Cloud Next, our annual conference where we unveil our latest advancements — especially in security. In his guest column below, my colleague Sunil Potti …
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 first Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2023. This month, we’re featuring guest author MK Palmore, director in our Office of the CISO. MK will be discussing our new Google Cybersecurity Certificate and how it can help organizations close the security talent gap. Before I turn …
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 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 …
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 …
Welcome to October’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we're focusing on our just-completed Google Cloud Next conference and Mandiant’s inaugural mWise Conference, and what our slate of cybersecurity announcements can reveal about how we are approaching the thorniest cybersecurity challenges facing the industry today. As I wrote …