Google SecOps: Cloud Security Operations on Google Cloud
Catch it before it becomes an incident
Most breaches are visible in the logs well before anyone notices them. We put Google SecOps and Security Command Center in place so that what is already happening in your cloud becomes something a person can see, prioritise and act on.
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- 20+ years on Google Cloud
- Google Cloud Premier Partner
- 50+ certifications
- ISO 27001:2022
Where the gaps usually are
Security tooling tends to arrive one purchase at a time, each solving whatever was most pressing that quarter. Most teams end up with plenty of signal, but it arrives in too many places for anyone to say with much confidence which part of it matters today.
Several tools, no single view
Overlapping products each cover part of the estate, and none of them covers all of it. Working out whether something is serious means opening three consoles and comparing by hand.
Detection is quick, response is not
An alert fires within seconds and then waits, because triage is manual and the person who understands that workload is in another meeting. The gap between detection and response is where the cost accumulates.
Compliance reporting is done by hand
Evidence is gathered at audit time from screenshots and exports, which is slow, error-prone, and tells you about the state of the environment weeks after the fact.
From alerts to answers
More detection rarely helps on its own, although ranking findings by real risk and routing them to someone who can act usually does. Automating the routine part of the response is what leaves attention free for the cases that need judgement.
Before
- Multiple overlapping tools, no centralised view
- Threat detection slow because triage is manual
- Findings arriving without a sense of which matter
- Compliance evidence assembled by hand at audit time
- Licence cost spread across tools that do similar work
After
- One console covering the whole Google Cloud estate
- Automated incident response for the routine cases
- Findings prioritised by risk, so attention follows severity
- Compliance reporting produced continuously, not retrospectively
- Several tools consolidated into one platform
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A walkthrough of the distance between reactive patching and proactive defence, and what Google Cloud SecOps and Security Command Center change about it.
Why Google SecOps
Security Command Center sees the estate from inside the platform it is protecting, which is a materially different position from a tool inspecting it from outside. Event and container threat detection are already looking at the workloads you run, so coverage does not depend on somebody remembering to point an agent at a new project.
We hold ISO 27001:2022 ourselves, which mostly means we have had to live with the same evidence requirements we are asking your team to meet.
20+
Years building on Google Cloud, since before most of it had a name
50+
Google Cloud certifications across the team
Premier
Google Cloud Premier Partner, with specialisations in data and infrastructure
What the engagement covers
Three ways to work together, and they stack. Most clients start with an assessment and a Security Command Center deployment, then decide whether to run it themselves or have us do it.
We assess the security setup you have, write a clear action plan against it, and implement Google Cloud SecOps, including Security Command Center.
Security assessment
What is covered, what is not, and which of the gaps are worth closing first rather than eventually.
Security Command Center
Deployed with event and container threat detection switched on across the projects that matter.
Custom alert workflows
Alerts routed to the people who can act on them, with the routine responses automated rather than queued.
Action plan
A prioritised sequence you could hand to another party, because it is written to be executed rather than to justify the engagement.
For teams who would rather not staff a security rota. We watch the environment continuously and tell you what needs remediating, in order.
Continuous monitoring
Visibility across the security landscape, maintained rather than sampled at review time.
Vulnerability remediation
Guidance on what to fix and in what order, with the reasoning attached so your team can disagree with it.
Compliance reporting
Evidence produced continuously, which turns audit preparation from a project into an export.
Training & support
Getting your own people to the point where they can run this. Useful whether or not you intend to keep us involved afterwards.
Team enablement
The knowledge and the working practices needed to manage cloud security day to day, taught against your own environment.
Working practices
How triage, escalation and review actually run once the tooling is in place, which is the part that usually decides whether it holds.
Ongoing briefings
What has changed in the platform and in the threat landscape, filtered down to what affects your setup.
One media group, one console
Media companies face roughly twice as many cyberattacks as other industries, which makes fragmented tooling an expensive place to be.
FD Media Group · financial media
Consolidating security for the Netherlands' financial media group
FD Media Group, publisher of Het Financieele Dagblad and BNR, had multiple overlapping security tools and no centralised view of its Google Cloud workloads, so detection was slow and triage was manual. We implemented Security Command Center Premium with event and container threat detection, active monitoring, automated workflows and customised alerts. Findings are now prioritised by risk, several tools have been consolidated into one, and compliance reporting no longer happens by hand.
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The top five cloud security risks, and how to tackle them
A whitepaper on the risks that come up most often in Google Cloud environments, with the mitigations that actually hold rather than the ones that look good in a policy document. Worth reading before an assessment, so the conversation starts further along.
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Questions before you change tooling
We already have security tools. Does this replace them?
Sometimes, and that is often where the business case comes from, since consolidating overlapping products removes licence cost as well as confusion. But it depends on what those tools cover outside Google Cloud, and we would rather establish that in the assessment than assume it.
How long before we can see something?
Security Command Center starts producing findings quickly once it is switched on, which is usually the easy part. The work that takes longer is deciding what to do with those findings, since an unprioritised list of everything wrong with an environment tends to get ignored as thoroughly as no list at all.
Do we need our own security team to run this?
Not necessarily. Managed security operations exists for organisations that would rather not staff a rota, and training exists for those who would. In practice a fair number do both for a while, with us running it while their team learns the environment.
What about the parts of our estate that are not on Google Cloud?
Google Cloud is where our depth is and where Security Command Center reaches natively. For a mixed estate we will be direct about which parts we can cover well and which would be better served by something else, rather than stretching the tooling past where it is strong.
How does this help with an audit?
Continuous reporting means evidence exists before it is requested rather than being assembled afterwards. We are ISO 27001:2022 certified, and for regulated clients we work to whatever additional framework applies.
Next step
Want to know what your cloud is exposed to?
An assessment establishes what is covered today, where the gaps are, and which of them are worth closing first. It tends to be a shorter conversation than people expect.
