EP176 Google on Google Cloud: How Google Secures Its Own Cloud Use

Jun 10, 2024

Guest:

• Seth Vargo, Principal Software Engineer responsible for Google's use of the public cloud, Google

Topics:

• Google uses the public cloud, no way, right? Which one? Oh, yeah, I guess this is obvious: GCP, right?

• Where are we like other clients of GCP?  Where are we not like other cloud users?

• Do we have any unique cloud security technology that we use that others may benefit from?

• How does our cloud usage inform our cloud security products?

• So is our cloud use profile similar to cloud natives or traditional companies?

• What are some of the most interesting cloud security practices and controls that we use that are usable by others?

• How do we make them work at scale? 

Resources:

• EP12 Threat Models and Cloud Security (previous episode with Seth)

• EP66 Is This Binary Legit? How Google Uses Binary Authorization and Code Provenance

• EP75 How We Scale Detection and Response at Google: Automation, Metrics, Toil

• EP158 Ghostbusters for the Cloud: Who You Gonna Call for Cloud Forensics

• IAM Deny

• Seth Vargo blog

• “Attention Is All You Need” paper (yes, that one)