Google Cloud has revealed a significant security upgrade

Date:
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 17:19:08 +0000

Description:
With more context, threat analysts can move faster, and suffer from less
alert fatigue, Google promises.

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Googles Chronicle security analytics tool has been updated to provide
analysts with more context for each individual alert.

The company hopes that this update means users should be able to track potentially hazardous situations faster, more precisely, and with less alert fatigue.

Announcing the news in a blog post , Google Product Architect Mike Hom, and Engineering Lead, Travis Lanham said the product is getting context-aware detections, creating efficiencies in every step of a customers detection and response journey, starting by making alerts more functionally enabled. TechRadar needs you!

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Currently, to analyze (and contextually de-risk) a potentially hazardous
Excel macro, a security analyst needs to take five steps, including doing a host lookup, identifying the host owner, and eventually, identifying if the user is likely to use a macro in their financial spreadsheet.

With context-aware detections, Google claims all the supporting information from authoritative sources, which include telemetry, context, relationships, and vulnerabilities, are all joined as part of a single detection event.

The update also brings a couple of new capabilities to the battleground, including the ability to use risk scoring to prioritize threats, faster addressing of security alerts, and an enhanced fidelity of alerting.

Not only will things move faster now, but analysts will also suffer from less alert fatigue, a problem thats exacerbated since the onslaught of the
Covid-19 pandemic.

Google did not mention a specific date when the new context-aware threat detection would be generally available, but it did say that the modules will move towards general availability in the coming months. Read more

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Hom and Lanham added that there will also be a steady release of new
detection capabilities, in the coming weeks and months.

Googles new capabilities are being introduced on the heels of two
acquisitions - Siemplify (security orchestration, automation, and response), and Mandiant (a cybersecurity firm offering threat intelligence, and incident response services, among other things). Check out the best firewalls today



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