August 21, 2024 at 07:42AM
Google Cloud unveiled new security-related services and capabilities at its 2024 Google Cloud Security Summit. Mandiant introduced Mandiant Custom Threat Hunt, enhancing threat hunting efforts for organizations. Additionally, Google announced security enhancements for Security Command Center, Chrome Enterprise Premium, identity and access management, data security, and network security, benefitting Cloud customers worldwide.
From the meeting notes, I have extracted the following key takeaways:
1. Google Cloud announced new security-related services and capabilities at the 2024 Google Cloud Security Summit. This includes additions to the Mandiant threat hunting offering and enhancements to the Security Command Center (SCC) and Chrome Enterprise Premium.
2. Mandiant introduced a new offering called Mandiant Custom Threat Hunt, aimed at supplementing threat hunting programs for organizations and uncovering current or past threat actor activity.
3. Google Cloud expanded the capabilities of Security Command Center (SCC), including functionalities for detecting ‘toxic combinations’ of security issues and enhanced multicloud infrastructure entitlement management.
4. In Chrome Enterprise Premium, new capabilities were added, such as pay-as-you-go pricing, watermarking data protection, greater visibility into browsing activity, and security insights.
5. Google also announced new controls and capabilities for Google Cloud in general, pertaining to identity and access management, data security, and network security improvements.
6. For regulated cloud customers, Google made announcements regarding the general availability of new control packages for Italy and Saudi Arabia, as well as previewing new compliance features for Assured Workloads.
These takeaways encompass the major announcements and updates related to security services and capabilities made during the meeting.