By Tony Palmer, Practice Director and Principal Analyst, Validation Services
Enterprise Strategy Group
December 2023
Google Cloud is designed, built, and operated with security as a primary design principle to help protect its customers against threats in their environments. Google layers on security controls to enable organizations to meet their own policy, regulatory, and business objectives. Customers can leverage elements of Google’s compliance framework in their own compliance programs.
Google Cloud secures more than three billion users globally. To accomplish that, Google’s cloud infrastructure can’t rely on any single technology to make it secure. Google’s stack builds security through progressive layers designed to deliver true defense in depth, and at scale.
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Enterprise Strategy Group research shows that organizations have faced a wide range of attacks on their cloud-native applications, making it clear that they need to take steps to reduce their security risk. Eighty- eight percent of organizations reported having been attacked across a wide range of incidents, including malware moving laterally across workloads, targeted penetration attacks, and exposed or lost data from an object store.
Google Cloud partnered with Palo Alto Networks to develop and deliver Cloud IDS to provide cloud-native threat detection that detects network-based threats, such as malware, spyware, and command-and-control attacks with both north-south and east-west traffic visibility. Customers benefit from a cloud-native, managed experience that combines high performance and high-fidelity network-based threat data for investigation and correlation with the simple, secure, and scalable infrastructure of Google Cloud.
Detecting threats in traffic between workloads within the trust boundary of a VPC has been a significant challenge for cloud network security teams. With Cloud IDS, Google Cloud customers can deploy on-demand application visibility and threat detection between workloads or containers in any Google Cloud VPC to support their compliance goals and protect applications.
Palo Alto Networks leveraged the foundational capabilities of Google Cloud’s infrastructure and Google Cloud’s first-party tools to create and deliver differentiated products and offerings to their customers. In turn, Google is leveraging Palo Alto Networks’ expertise in an OEM relationship to deliver differentiation and enhance the value of Google Trusted Cloud.
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