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
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.
Two activation levels:
- project-level
- organization-level (Enterprise edition is only organization-level)
Google Cloud Standard tier is free of charge. Details on pricing
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
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.
Google had introduced new AI capabilities and seamless integration of Google Cloud SecOps with SCC Enterprise
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Author: Mehmet Cambaz, Director of Engineering, Oredata
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