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Documentation and resources for helping organizations secure their compute environments, protect data, and comply with regulations using Google Cloud products.

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Read documentation and Cloud Architecture Center articles about security products and procedures.
Learn the physical, administrative, and technical controls we use to help protect your organization's data.
Learn how IAM works in Google Cloud and how you can use it to manage access.
Learn what organization policies and constraints are.
Learn the key authentication methods and concepts to confirm a user's identity.
Learn how security is designed into Google's technical infrastructure.
Remove a user's access to a Google Cloud project.
Plan how to deploy a foundational set of resources in Google Cloud using best practices.

Training, blog articles, and more

Go to training courses, blog articles, and other related resources.
Study how to develop, implement, and monitor your organization's security infrastructure.
Listen to industry experts talk about some of the most interesting areas of cloud security.
Read the latest blog posts about Google Cloud security benefits and customer stories.
Study how to use SIEM and SOAR tools to parse data, build rules, develop playbooks, and respond to incidents.
Study how to develop, implement, and monitor your organization’s security infrastructure.

Security products by use case

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Detect vulnerabilities, threats, and misconfigurations.

Receive well-targeted, timely, and compliant communications about security and privacy events in the Google Cloud console.
Evaluate your organization's security posture and connect with insurance partners to obtain exclusive cyber insurance coverage and personalized pricing.
Detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats with SIEM and SOAR technology. Extract signals to find threats and automate the response.
Know who's targeting your organization with unparalleled visibility into the global threat landscape.
Understand your security and data attack surface.

Provide unified, federated identity with least privilege policies to reduce the risk of data breaches and other security incidents.

Allow organization administrators to define fine-grained, attribute-based access control for projects and resources in Google Cloud.
Simplify, automate, and customize the deployment, management, and security of private certificate authorities (CA).
Establish fine-grained identity and access management for Google Cloud resources.
Identify excess permissions using policy insights.
Plan your design for granting the right individuals access to the right resources for the right reasons.
Study fundamental features of cloud security related to access management and identity.
Plan your approach with Architecture Center resources across a variety of identity and access management topics.

Protect your workloads against denial-of-service attacks, web application attacks, and other security threats.

Deploy only trusted containers on Google Kubernetes Engine.
Acquire and manage TLS (SSL) certificates for use with Cloud Load Balancing and Media CDN.
Manage access to applications running in App Engine standard environment, App Engine flexible environment, Compute Engine, and GKE.
Protect your organization's website from fraudulent activity, spam, and abuse.
Migrate to Google Cloud while keeping your organization's existing security policies and requirements for outbound web traffic.
Detect malicious URLs on your organization's website and in client applications.
Help protect your services against DoS and web attacks.
Scale and distribute app access with high-performance load balancing.
Follow guidance to install and run the sample app to detect malicious URLs in a Go environment.

Collect, store, analyze, and monitor your organization's aggregated platform and system logs with a comprehensive solution.

Get visibility over your organization’s cloud provider through near real-time logs.
Provides assessments about a project or folder's adherence to compliance requirements.
Gain visibility into who did what, when, and where for all user activity on Google Cloud.
Use this group of products for progressively greater transparency and control over access to your content stored in Google Cloud.
Create an inventory of devices running Chrome OS and Chrome Browser that access your organization's data.
Identify Google Cloud service disruptions relevant to your projects so you can manage and respond to them efficiently.
Manage planned maintenance across Google Cloud services.
Store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud and AWS.
Get visibility into the performance, availability, and overall health of cloud-powered applications.
Use a single console for comprehensive network monitoring, verification, and optimization.

Manage your resources in a secure and compliant way with visibility and control over your cloud environment.

Secure your workloads and accelerate your path to running compliant workloads on Google Cloud.
View, monitor, and analyze Google Cloud and Anthos assets across projects and services.
Centralized and programmatic control over your organization's cloud resources.
Control resources and manage access through policies to proactively improve your security configuration.
Centralized and programmatic control over your organization's cloud resources.
Reduce security risk and gain access to exclusive cyber insurance policies tailored for Google Cloud customers.

Handle key management for secrets, disks, images, and log retention.

Use key management for secrets, disks, images, and log retention.
Control the location and distribution of your externally-managed keys.
Protect cryptographic keys with a fully managed hardware security module service.
Manage encryption keys on Google Cloud.
Protect data in-use with Confidential VM, Confidential GKE, Confidential Dataflow, Confidential Dataproc, and Confidential Space.
Store API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.
Discover and redact sensitive data.
Discover and understand your data using a fully managed and scalable data discovery and metadata management service. (Deprecated)

Centrally manage network resources, establish scalable segmentation for different security zones, and detect network threats.

Use a zero-trust solution that enables secure access with integrated threat and data protection.
Manage the wireless communications of devices transmitting in the Citizens Broadband Radio Spectrum (CBRS) band.
Help protect your services against DoS and web attacks.
Implement advanced protection capabilities and pervasive coverage to protect your Google Cloud workloads from internal and external attacks.
Use identity and context to guard access to your applications and VMs.
Connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud on your terms, from anywhere.
Get alerts when Cloud Intrusion Detection System detects malicious activity.
Connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud on your terms, from anywhere.
Protect sensitive data in Google Cloud services using security perimeters.
Get help with secrets and Cloud KMS keys.
Get recommendations for which Assured Workload control package to use.
View certifications, documentation, and third-party audits to help support your compliance.
Discover how we protect the privacy of Google Cloud and Google Workspace customers.
Secure your workloads and accelerate your path to running compliant workloads.
View answers to frequently asked questions about Google Cloud policy violations.
View a list of services that can be configured for data location.
Meet digital sovereignty requirements for Google Cloud by Partners.
Meet digital sovereignty requirements for Google Cloud by T-Systems.
Use a modular set of Google Cloud products to protect your software supply chain.
Store, manage, and secure container images and language packages.
Provide software composition analysis, metadata storage and retrieval.
Provide enterprise users of open source software with trusted OSS packages.
Continuously build, test, and deploy containers using the Google Cloud infrastructure.
Deploy only trusted containers on Google Kubernetes Engine.
Basics of authentication methods and concepts for Google Cloud services and get help with implementation or troubleshooting.
Manage user identities, devices, and applications from one console.
Add Google-grade identity and access management to your apps.
Use a highly available, hardened service running Microsoft Active Directory (AD).
Provides phishing-resistant 2nd factor of authentication for high-value users.
Study fundamental features of cloud security related to access management and identity.
A managed backup and disaster recovery (DR) service for centralized and application-consistent data protection in Google Cloud.
Increase anti money laundering detection accuracy and efficiency.
Optimize connectivity between systems on the internet and your Google Cloud instances.
Evaluate your organization's security posture and connect with insurance partners to obtain exclusive cyber insurance coverage and personalized pricing.
VMs on Google Cloud hardened by a set of security controls that help defend against rootkits and bootkits.