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 …

Editor’s note : The post is part of a series showcasing partner solutions that are Built with BigQuery. Today, it’s data that powers the enterprise, helping to provide competitive advantage, inform business decisions, and drive innovation. However, accessing high-quality data can be costly and time-consuming, and using it …

It’s hard to imagine (or for some of us, remember) life without the internet. From work, to family, to leisure, the internet has become interwoven in the fabric of our routines. But what if all of that got cut off, suddenly and without warning? For many people around …

Making sense of security logs such as audit and network logs can be a challenge, given the volume, variety and velocity of valuable logs from your Google Cloud environment. To help accelerate the time to get security insights from your logs, the open-source Community Security Analytics (CSA) provides pre-built …

Data is one of the most important assets of any enterprise. It is essential for making informed decisions, improving efficiency, and providing a competitive edge. However, managing data comes with the responsibility of preventing data misuse. Especially in regulated industries, mishandling data can lead to significant financial and reputational …

San Francisco, here we come. Starting today, you can now register at the Early Bird rate of $899 USD* for Google Cloud Next ‘23, taking place in person, August 29-31, 2023. This year’s Next conference comes at an exciting time. The emergence of generative AI is a transformational …

How will your organization manage this year's data growth and business requirements? Your actions and strategies involving data and AI will improve or undermine your organization's competitiveness in the months and years to come. Our teams at Google Cloud have an eye on the future as we evolve our …

Hardening a complex application is a challenge, more so for applications that include multiple layers with different authentication schemes. One common question is “how to integrate Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL or MySQL within your authentication flow?” Cloud SQL has always supported password-based authentication. There are, however, many questions that …

Data security is a key focus for organizations moving their data warehouses from on-premises to cloud-first systems, such as BigQuery. In addition to storage-level encryption, whether using Google-managed or customer-managed keys, BigQuery also provides column-level encryption. Using BigQuery's SQL AEAD functions, organizations can enforce a more granular level of …

Data speed and security should not be mutually exclusive, which is why Confluent Cloud, a cloud-first data streaming platform built by the founders of Apache Kafka, secures your data through encryption at rest and enables secure data in motion. However, for the most sensitive data — particularly data generated by …

BigQuery is a leading data warehouse solution in the market today, and is valued by customers who need to gather insights and advanced analytics on their data. Many common BigQuery use cases involve the storage and processing of Personal Identifiable Information (PII)—data that needs to be protected within …

Data governance includes people, processes, and technology. Together, these principles enable organizations to validate and manage across dimensions such as: Data management, including data and pipelines lifecycle management and master data management. Data protection, spanning data access management, data masking and encryption, along with audit and compliance. Data discoverability …

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 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 …

Editor’s note : The post is part of a series highlighting our awesome partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. Exabeam, a leader in SIEM and XDR, provides security operations teams with end-to-end Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response (TDIR) by leveraging a combination of user and entity …

In order to better serve their customers and users, digital applications and platforms continue to store and use sensitive data such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), genetic and biometric information, and credit card information. Many organizations that provide data for analytics use cases face evolving regulatory and privacy mandates …

Editor’s note : The post is part of a series highlighting our awesome partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. Since the very first email was sent more than 50 years ago, the now-ubiquitous communication tool has evolved into more than just an electronic method of communication …

Protecting sensitive data and preventing unintended data exposure is critical for businesses. However, many organizations lack the tools to stay on top of where sensitive data resides across their enterprise. It’s particularly concerning when sensitive data shows up in unexpected places – for example, in logs that services generate …

As Google Cloud continues our efforts to be the industry’s most trusted cloud, we’re taking an active stake to help customers achieve better security for their cloud data warehouses. With our belief in shared fate driving us to make it easier to build strong security into deployments …

As more organizations embrace the principles of Autonomic Security Operations, we continue to research and develop new initiatives that can simplify the adoption of a continuous detection and continuous response (CD/CR) workflow for Security Operations teams. To this end, we’re excited to announce Community Security Analytics (CSA …

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) integration for Cloud Data Fusion. CMEK enables encryption of both user data and metadata at rest with a key that you can control through Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). This capability will help meet the …

Chronicle, Google Cloud’s security analytics platform, is built on Google’s infrastructure to help security teams run security operations at unprecedented speed and scale. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re bringing more industry-leading Google technology to security teams by integrating Chronicle with Looker and BigQuery …

Late last year, Google Cloud joined the EOS community, a leading open-source platform for blockchain innovation and performance, and is taking steps to support the EOS Public Blockchain by becoming a block producer (BP). At the time, we outlined how our planned participation underscores the importance of blockchain to …