Security News
Google Cloud's global sales force will now collaborate with Cysiv to help customers simplify the security of their cloud workloads. Security is a shared responsibility, and Cysiv's capabilities complement Google Cloud's secure infrastructure, storage, services and communications, with important measures that will further ensure customer's sensitive data, workloads and IT environment are adequately protected from cyberattacks and insider threats, while meeting compliance requirements.
Six percent of all Google Cloud buckets are misconfigured and left open to the public internet, for anyone to access their contents. In a survey of 2,064 Google Cloud buckets by Comparitech, 131 of them were found to be vulnerable to unauthorized access by users who could list, download and/or upload files.
Tanium has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to help organizations accelerate the transformation to distributed business operations. "With Tanium and Google Cloud, customers don't have to make difficult tradeoffs between the quality, breadth, timeliness, or storage cost of their security telemetry," said Sunil Potti, General Manager and Vice President of Cloud Security at Google Cloud.
AppViewX announced its partnership with Google Cloud to support its newly announced Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service with AppViewX's Certificate Lifecycle Management and Automation product, CERT+. This integration enables businesses to simplify deployment of private CAs, enabling end-to-end automation of enterprise infrastructure, DevOps and IoT. Google Cloud and AppViewX's integration primarily focuses on securing the growing number of digital identities with a robust and future-proof PKI system, allowing users to communicate with DevOps tools and CI/CD toolchains.
With this announcement, InfluxDB Cloud is now live on all three major cloud platforms - Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services. InfluxDB Cloud now available on all major cloud platforms.
By hosting phishing pages at a legitimate cloud service, cybercriminals try to avoid arousing suspicion, says Check Point Research. The idea is that such phishing pages will better elude detection by security products and more easily ensnare unsuspecting victims.
Google Cloud announced 11 new G Suite security features on Tuesday. The Google Cloud upgrades optimize security across G Suite's key products: Gmail, Meet, and Chat.
Google this week announced Assured Workloads for Government, a new Google Cloud service meant to address some of the unique challenges faced by government organizations adopting cloud technologies. Currently available in private beta, Assured Workloads for Government seeks to simplify the process of configuring applications for compliance, while also ensuring compatibility between commercial and government cloud.
Google on Tuesday unveiled the first product in its Google Cloud Confidential Computing portfolio: Confidential VMs. Currently in beta for Google Compute Engine, Confidential VMs are designed to help organizations, particularly ones in regulated industries, protect sensitive data by providing memory encryption capabilities that can be leveraged to isolate cloud workloads. Confidential VMs leverage the Secure Encrypted Virtualization feature in 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors to ensure that sensitive data remains encrypted at all times, including while it's used, queried or indexed.
Confidential computing encrypts data in use as it's being processed and keeps that data encrypted in memory and elsewhere outside the CPU. Google Cloud just launched a new technology that encrypts data while it's being processed: Confidential computing, which also keeps data encrypted in memory, as well as outside the central processing unit. Google Cloud users can now control the confidentiality of their data.