“Enterprise prospects are more and more utilizing Google Cloud to drive their enterprise and the capabilities we’re saying right this moment give them much more confidence to maneuver quick in Google Cloud with the Lacework platform,” mentioned Brian Lanigan, Vice President, Worldwide Channel and Alliances, Lacework. “We’re dedicated to giving our prospects flexibility in how they leverage Lacework to allow them to keep targeted on serving their prospects, whereas realizing that they’re safe of their cloud of selection or throughout a number of clouds.”

Enterprise Flexibility to Take Benefit of the Advantages of Lacework and Google Cloud

The announcement consists of a number of enhancements that strengthen the partnership with Google Cloud and provides prospects flexibility in how they leverage Lacework, together with help for Google Cloud Audit Go surfing a pub/sub structure. This new methodology permits prospects to ingest, course of, and alert on Google Cloud audit logs with decrease and extra predictable latency. Moreover, Lacework is releasing new detection guidelines and composite alerts, and Google Cloud customers can now write customized LQL insurance policies. These new composite alerts embrace the “Probably Compromised Google Cloud Identification”. This alert makes use of a number of detections to correlate right into a higher-level alert when Lacework suspects an intrusion into their cloud surroundings, giving Google Cloud prospects higher context and diminished investigation time. 

“Companies search safety options that may adapt to their know-how stack and allow them to watch and shield their organizations,” mentioned Vineet Bhan, International Head of Safety Partnerships, Google Cloud. “With Lacework’s platform, Google Cloud prospects have instruments to assist them safe their purposes, together with the flexibility to course of audit logs sooner and extra successfully.” 

Assault Path Evaluation, which mixes a visible illustration of potential assault paths with deep runtime perception from Lacework’s Polygraph Information Platform, is now prolonged to Google Cloud help, enhancing Google Cloud customers’ visibility into potential threats and permitting proactive danger mitigation. Clients like Cognite, a worldwide chief in industrial software program, are already seeing advantages from assault path evaluation.

“It supplies a useful technique of figuring out potential configuration issues earlier than they escalate into extra vital safety breaches,” mentioned Simon Eriksen, Safety Engineer, Cognite. “My colleague already had the possibility to establish configuration points, it instantly flagged one thing we had to have a look at — giving us the chance to repair it.”

Agentless scanning for Google Cloud streamlines safety assessments and supplies a complete view of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations inside the cloud surroundings. Agentless workload scanning may be applied for a single Google Cloud venture or on the Group degree to use to any/all Google Cloud initiatives with one integration. Moreover, for purchasers utilizing Lacework multi-tenancy, the outcomes from particular person Google Cloud initiatives may be routed mechanically to their mapped Lacework accounts. 

Lastly, Lacework, in partnership with Google Cloud, is strengthening its Google Cloud Eventarc integration, which permits safety professionals to construct event-driven architectures with out having to implement, customise, or keep the underlying infrastructure. It affords a standardized resolution to handle the move of state modifications, which Google Cloud calls occasions, between decoupled microservices. With occasions despatched from the Lacework Polygraph Information Platform to Eventarc, a corporation can simply handle the workflow of those occasions; whether or not routing the occasion to a particular group, sending info to an inner instrument, or performing remediation on the affected useful resource.

At a time when enterprises are searching for flexibility in how they run their cloud enterprise, Lacework is delivering extra optionality for purchasers to innovate securely in Google Cloud. 

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Lacework retains organizations safe within the cloud, permitting them to innovate sooner with confidence. Cloud safety requires a essentially new strategy and the Lacework platform is designed to scale with the amount, selection, and velocity of cloud knowledge throughout a corporation’s cloud surroundings: code, identities, containers, and multi-cloud infrastructure. Solely Lacework supplies Safety and Improvement groups with a correlated and prioritized end-to-end view that pinpoints the most important dangers and handful of safety occasions that matter most. Study extra at www.lacework.com.