Google Releases Details on Its Cloud Data Deletion Process
Google this week released detailed information about the process the company uses for handling data deletion requests by enterprises using its cloud services.In a whitepaper titled Data Deletion on Google Cloud Platform, the company explains how the process is designed to ensure safe and effective deletion of data from active systems, backup volumes and physical storage media.Generally, prior to...
Google Announces Stackdriver Workspaces for Monitoring Cloud Resources
Google has announced Stackdriver Workspaces, a tool that enterprises can use to monitor workloads and computing resources across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), on-premises and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.With it, organizations can better organize and manage data from all of the tools used to monitor workloads in the cloud, such as Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring, Stackdriver APM and OpenCensus. The...
Google Outlines Incident Response Process for Cloud Customers
In its ongoing campaign to build trust through transparency, Google this week released a white paper describing the company's process for responding to incidents impacting the confidentiality, integrity or availability of customer data.The paper shows that Google has implemented a four-phased approach for responding to data incidents, which it describes as a breach of Google security that results in...
Google’s Cloud Access Transparency Logs Now Generally Available
A Google product that allows enterprises to know when and for what reason a Google administrator might have accessed their cloud data is now generally available. Customers of six Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including Compute Engine, App Engine and Cloud Storage can now use the company's recently announced Access Transparency Logs to monitor any access to their workloads by...
Google-Cisco Hybrid Cloud Offering Now Generally Available
A hybrid cloud offering that Google launched last October in collaboration with Cisco is now generally available to customers of Google's cloud platform. The Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud is designed to give enterprises a way to develop, deploy manage and secure applications across both on-premises environments and on Google's Cloud Platform (GCP). Organizations can use the service to...
Google Expands ‘Android Enterprise Recommended’ Mobile Device Program
Google has expanded its Android Enterprise Recommended program under which it is certifying Android devices as being suited for enterprise use if they meet specific requirements for hardware, software, security and other features. This week the company announced that it would now start certifying Android devices as being 'rugged' under the same program if the devices meet an elevated set...