Security News > 2022 > February > Google announces threat detection for virtual machines in its cloud

Google is adding a new defensive layer to protect enterprise workloads running in Google Cloud.

It's called Virtual Machine Threat Detection, and will help select Security Command Center customers detect cryptomining malware inside their virtual machines.

Customers of the platform's Premium tier have the added bonus of being able to use its threat detection suite, which until now consisted of Event Threat Detection and Container Threat Detection.

The new feature - Virtual Machine Threat Detection - scans enabled Compute engine projects and VM instances to detect unwanted applications running inside VMs. About Virtual Machine Threat Detection.

"For Compute Engine, we wanted to see if we could collect signals to aid in threat detection without requiring our customers to run additional software. Not running an agent inside of their instance means less performance impact, lowered operational burden for agent deployment and management, and exposing less attack surface to potential adversaries," Timothy Peacock, Product Manager at Google Cloud, explained.

"What we learned is that we could instrument the hypervisor - the software that runs underneath and orchestrates our customers' virtual machines - to include nearly universal and hard-to-tamper-with threat detection."

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/02/07/virtual-machine-threat-detection/