Security Command Center Overview

Security Command Center (SCC) is Google Cloud’s centralized foundational security solution delivers vulnerability, misconfiguration and threat reporting. SCC could assist to strengthen cloud security posture and reduce cloud security risks by:

Evaluating cloud security and data attack surface
Providing asset inventory and discovery
Identifying misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and threats
Helping to mitigate and remediate risks

Product Tiers

SCC offers three service tiers: Standard, Premium and Enterprise

Standard: Good for small deployments with basic security needs and limited budget.

Premium: Offers advanced threat detection, vulnerability management, and compliance features compared to Standard. Ideal for medium-sized deployments needing more granular control.

Enterprise: Provides the most comprehensive security posture with Mandiant expertise, threat intelligence, and automated incident workflows. Best suited for large organizations with complex security requirements.

source: https://cloud.google.com/security/products/security-command-center

Two activation levels:

project-level
organization-level (Enterprise edition is only organization-level)

Pricing

Google Cloud Standard tier is free of charge. Details on pricing

Sample SCC Standard (free of charge) and Premium (pay as you go) billing costs

Features

Overall Risk overview

Risk categories

IAM, Workload, Data Security

Findings (Misconfiguration, Threat, Toxic Combination etc.) querying

Sample finding detail and possible remediation steps

Threats by severity and project

Vulnerabilities querying

Compliance mapping and details

Assets querying

Sources of findings

Posture Management and Templates

Integration

It is possible to integrate SCC with exernal SIEM and SOAR systems such as

Google SecOps (Chronicle)
Elastic Stack
ServiceNow
Splunk
QRadar
Cortex XSOAR

Exporting Security Command Center data

Continuous Exports

Integration details

Conclusion

Cloud environments could be a nightmare to manage due to complexity, vast amount of resources which could be globally distributed, massive elasticity, many departments with complex IAM, applications, clusters etc. SCC could provide amazing benefits by centrally oversee the misconfigurations, anomalies, threats in one place while integrating to companies’ current cybersecurity solutions.