Google has announced that fabrication has begun on OpenTitan silicon, and it is being manufactured by the semiconductor manufacturer Nuvoton. OpenTitan is an open source silicon Root of Trust (RoT), a secure microcontroller. According to Google, the key to securing devices is to “start where you have certainty and build up a chain of trust.”… … continue reading
Last year, Google proposed shortening the time frame that TLS certificates are valid for, from 398 days to 90 days. This plan is still in the proposal phase, but to learn about what companies need to do to prepare for these shorter certificate durations, we interviewed Sitaram Iyer, VP of emerging technologies at Venafi, on… … continue reading
SentinelOne and Google Cloud are partnering up to provide customers with better capabilities for securing their environments. SentinelOne’s AI-driven endpoint protection capabilities will be combined with Google Cloud’s threat intelligence and related services. They will jointly share telemetry data with each other, and SentinelOne will use Google Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash to further enhance… … continue reading
In a move to strengthen user privacy and security in Chrome, Google has announced that new certificates from the certificate authority (CA) company, Entrust, will no longer be trusted, starting in November. Google cited a “pattern of compliance failures, unmet improvement commitments, and the absence of tangible, measurable progress in response to publicly disclosed incident… … continue reading
Protocol Buffers (also sometimes referred to as protobuf) is a cross-platform mechanism for serializing structured data. Its documentation compares it to formats like XML or JSON, but smaller, faster, and simpler. “You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read… … continue reading
Google wants its customers to be able to use Chromebook devices for a long time, and is announcing that from now on all Chromebooks will get 10 years of updates. This is more than any other operating system commits to today, the company claims. The 10 year update period will begin automatically in 2024 for… … continue reading
Google announced a new training program built by cybersecurity experts that aims to expand the cybersecurity workforce by filling major skills gaps in the United States and providing opportunities for people from a wide range of backgrounds. The new Google Cybersecurity Certificate provides job seekers with affordable paths to careers in data analytics, IT support,… … continue reading
Public resolvers dominate the internet, accounting for nearly 60% of recursive DNS usage, while telecom giants represent nearly 9%, according to application traffic solution provider NS1. NS1 used its DNS Insights to analyze more than 7.5 trillion DNS queries and 15.1 trillion packets over a 90-day period in late 2022 to gather the data. The… … continue reading
Google announced that it completed the acquisition of Mandiant, a provider of dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. The addition of Mandiant’s threat intelligence to Google’s data processing, novel analytics approaches with AI and machine learning, and a focus on eliminating entire classes of threats aims to help enterprises stay protected at… … continue reading
Google Cloud and other database providers in the tech industry announced that they are forming a new initiative to ensure that companies have more seamless insights and access into the data they need for digital transformation. “The proliferation of data, along with the many software and cloud-based applications used to analyze and manage it, means… … continue reading
Community Security Analytics (CSA) is a set of open-sourced queries and rules designed by Google for self-service security analytics that are designed to help detect common cloud-based threats. Security Operations teams can use CSA to analyze Google Cloud logs to audit recent behavior and help detect threats to workloads. The queries are mapped to the… … continue reading
Google Cloud now indicates the regions with the lowest carbon impact inside Cloud Console location selectors for Cloud Run and Datastream. Regions that have a CFE percentage of at least 75% will be featured as a “Lowest CO2” region or a grid carbon intensity of no more than 200 gCO2eq/kWh.During pre-release tests, users were 19%… … continue reading
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