Protect your cloud investment with a Security Command Center

To improve the security posture of organizations using Google Cloud, Google Cloud’s Security Command Center can help enhance security capabilities with the many different tools the service provides.

Monitoring and Detection

Organizations can set up Google Cloud’s Security Command Center service and access monitoring and security tools. Organizations will be able to have fundamental monitoring, detecting, and analyzing tools and have access to more advanced tools as needed. With built-in threat detection, organizations can easily set up multiple detection services such as event or container threat detection and be prepared when a potential cloud attack is imminent.

The Google Cloud Security Command Center can also help ensure appropriate policies are in place to expose vulnerabilities. Moreover, organizations will be alerted when policies are misconfigured or unexpectedly changed and take appropriate actions to resolve these alerts.

Adherence to Compliance

The Google Cloud Security Command Center also has compliance monitoring that ensures your resources adhere to compliance requirements such as PCI-DSS 3.2.1, OWASP Top Ten, and NIST 800-53. Ensuring your cloud resources are meeting compliance will help you better protect against cloud threats. Additionally, auditing can be streamlined as the Google Cloud Security Command Center can help ensure that an organization’s environment is compliant.

SIEM Integration

Organizations can also quickly remediate security alerts through the Google Cloud Security Command Center’s real-time notifications and automated remediation. Organizations receive notifications within minutes through Gmail, SMS, and JIRA and set up immediate remediation efforts through Pub/Sub events and cloud functions. This feature of Security Command Center is ideal for organizations that have migrated to the cloud and have set up automation to combat cyberattacks. 

The Google Cloud Security Command Center facilitates threat detection and prevention through automation, which is great for new cloud adopters.

Improving your security posture outside of Security Command Center

To further enhance your cloud infrastructure security, additional steps can be taken to reduce the risk of a cyberattack or data breach. One important method to improve security is educating your employees on cybersecurity. Many online courses will inform, and in some instances, incentivize employees on how to avoid data breaches and teach good protection practices.

Rapidly shifting to the cloud can be difficult when the time to research and plan is shortened. To establish a successful cloud environment, it’s important to understand which cloud service provider you are using, what workflow needs to be configured, and how your security is established. If you are already established in the cloud, researching is useful in determining if a third-party service fits your needs while meeting your security criteria.

Organizations need to shift to proactively address potential threats. Organizations should consider implementing frameworks that support Risk and Compliance as Code under policy-as-code along with processes that support recurring penetration testing. These proactive methods will improve your security posture and cover any vulnerable areas that may have been missed.

Building a robust, secure infrastructure is a continuous process that must be followed to avoid security breaches.

Benefits of securing your data on the cloud

As your security posture improves, other areas of your organization may improve as well:

• Customer loyalty, even endorsing it, resulting in a growing user base.
• Cyberattacks can cause millions of dollars in damages and be hard to recover from. Through real-time notifications and automated remediation processes, organizations can mitigate monetary damages. Establishing cloud security can improve application availability. With back up plans and policies, your security workflow can shift from reactive to proactive.

Next steps organizations can take

As your organizations think about improving security posture here are next steps to take:

• Setting Goals
  It is important to understand your organization’s goals when migrating to the cloud. Successful migrations embed security into the business goals. Taking this first step of aligning the business and security can demonstrate a long-term investment in cloud adoption.
  
• Strategize
  As an organization continues to grow, it becomes imperative to have business processes include cybersecurity as part of their governance processes. This can help an organization to have a strategic approach towards security.

KPMG LLP is a Google Cloud partner and can guide you to effectively manage an organization’s security risks, improve any security bottlenecks, and enable a more secure workflow to your business applications. KPMG has been at the forefront of cloud security and with our extensive cybersecurity experience and experts, it can help assist you in helping your organization stay secure and respond to incidents rapidly to mitigate any damages from cyber-attacks. KPMG has demonstrated success in the cybersecurity space and has a proven track record for assisting clients in organizations of different sizes.