Google Cloud's 2024 security summit will call on attendees to prioritise simplicity and focus on the convergence of existing solutions, instead of launching a smattering of new products.
Calling on organisations to evaluate their security tooling and determine how they can adapt to accelerating step function change, the tech giant stated its commitment to keeping the process simple.
"Instead of adding new, siloed products to address specific threats, we need to reduce the number of moving parts, said Sunil Potti, VP/GM, Google Cloud Security in a blog post.
"A more effective approach that converges existing capabilities and infuses them with AI and frontline threat intelligence, to enable the next level of proactive defense," he added.
Potti noted that Google Cloud was choosing strategic capabilities that would have the largest impact on clients' security posture and programs for their current product and solution portfolio.
This includes a platform "to drive the core security functions of detection, investigation, and response, risk management for where business critical applications and data increasingly live, essential frontline expertise and intelligence on current threats, and the modern enterprise access platform."
As part of this security portfolio, Google Cloud is strengthening its DevSecOps platform which is set to goes beyond replacing legacy SIEM. According to a press release, the platform unifes SIEM, SOAR, and Attack Surface Management to proactively detect and respond to threats.
Priorities also include leveraging the existing Chrome Enterprise footprint, "activating hundreds of millions of devices for non-invasive endpoint threat detection, data protection, and Zero Trust access."
Google Cloud has also announced custom threat hunting, as a service available as part of the Mandiant suite of products and services.
"This point-in-time threat hunt can complement managed detection and response services, or can supplement an in-house threat hunting program," said Potti.
The company's cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) solution, has added new capabilities to surface toxic combinations, that issecurity issues that create unacceptable risks when they occur together.
The new capabilities use virtual red teaming to find these combinations.
"It continuously simulates a determined attacker who attempts to infiltrate cloud defenses and reach high-value assets, trying millions of attack permutations against a digital twin model of your cloud environment to find possible attack paths," explains Potti.
Other updates and capabilities announced all focus on the theme of convergence, and include AI powered threat intelligence, and incorprating human frontline expertise within capabilities.
A full list of new Google Cloud products and capabilities announced at the security summit can be found here.
