How GCP helps you take command of your threat detection

Why do we keep talking about security all the time? Why hasn’t anyone just gone and fixed it?

You’ve probably heard these questions, whether from your leadership, or a board member, or just from friends. Then you labor at explaining why security in the cloud is so complex and challenging, the constant arms race, and eventually their eyes glaze over. But you’re right: It is complex, and it can be hard.

As a security leader today, you likely spend a lot of your time focused on getting information: what’s going on, what new vulnerability just surfaced, what threats are present in your environment, and how to remediate them. And you probably already have a few dozen tools in place to measure, analyze, collect, and search through your data.

Right now, with your set of existing tools, you hopefully have a good sense of your on-prem systems and your overall attack surface. But across all those datasets, you’re juggling incongruous access patterns, stale data, and cluttered information coming from disparate tools–it’s not organized by topic, risk, or project. So unifying and rectifying the data sources, to really give you a full picture, just doesn’t happen.

Then you add cloud systems to the mix, and it’s a whole ‘nother ball of wax. To wrap up National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we wanted to detail a few security features we’ve developed–most recently Event Threat Detection, available today in beta–and highlight some information that can help you reduce the complexity of your organization’s security, and improve your security posture.

Gain visibility and control, and prevent threats
With Cloud Security Command Center (Cloud SCC), Google brings a flexible platform to give you wide visibility and rapid response capabilities. Beyond just risk and vulnerability management, Cloud SCC focuses on active defense, showing you threats that have been detected and the path to greater holistic security in your cloud resources. It integrates with existing partner security solutions you already use and Google Cloud security tools. And its API is accessible to you and your vendors, so any additional data is easy to integrate.