How we secure our infrastructure: a white paper

By Niels Provos, Distinguished Engineer, Google Security

Trust in the cloud is paramount to any business who is thinking about using it to power their critical applications, deliver new customer experiences and house their most sensitive data. Today, we’re issuing a white paper by our security team that details how security is designed into our infrastructure from the ground up.

Google Cloud’s global infrastructure provides security through the entire information processing lifecycle.This infrastructure provides secure deployment of services, secure storage of data with end-user privacy safeguards, secure communications between services, secure and private communication with customers over the internet and safe operation by administrators.

Google uses this infrastructure to build its internet services, including both consumer services such as Search, Gmail, and Photos, and our Google Cloud enterprise services.

The paper describes the security of this infrastructure in progressive layers starting from the physical security of our data centers, continuing on to how the hardware and software that underlie the infrastructure are secured, and finally, describing the technical constraints and processes in place to support operational security.

In a final section, the paper highlights how our public cloud infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), benefits from the security of the underlying infrastructure. We take Google Compute Engine as an example service and describe in detail the service-specific security improvements that we build on top of the infrastructure.

For more information please take a look at the paper.

https://cloud.google.com/security/security-design

We’re also pleased to announce the addition of regular, security-focused content on this blog under the Security & Identity label, which includes posts on topics like virtual machine security, identity and access management, platform integrity and the practical applications of encryption. Watch this space!
Quelle: Google Cloud Platform

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