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Session guide: Get the most out of Next OnAir Security Week

With new threats, constantly evolving regulations, and the need to secure increasingly decentralized environments, keeping your organization safe and compliant keeps getting more complex. This year, COVID-19 has impacted all of us in multiple ways—including in how we think about and manage security. Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir has a range of sessions on ways we can help secure your organization in today’s new normal. If you haven’t registered yet, no problem. Just head to the Next OnAir website and you’re ready to go. Security week starts with our welcome session where you’ll get an overview of what’s to come. Then, be sure to check out our solution keynote, A Better, Safer Normal, where we’ll look at how you can operate securely and simply in this new security reality we’re facing. This year features over 20 security sessions—all going live at 9am PT on Tuesday, August 4—so there’s sure to be something for every security professional.  Data Protection and Customer ControlsThese sessions provide best practices and tips to help you ensure the confidentiality and privacy of your sensitive data. While they have a focus on encryption and key management options, we’ll also present options for data discovery, classification, and anonymization.Confidential Computing: The Next Frontier In Data Protection: Learn about Confidential Computing and how it’s enabling the shift to private, encrypted services where organizations can be confident that their data stays private and isn’t exposed to cloud providers or their own insiders. Cloud HSM Deep Dive and Best Practices: Cloud HSM has enjoyed fast growth since its 2018 debut. See what’s coming up next in this deep dive.The New World of Controlling Your Data in the Cloud: Cloud External Key Manager and Key Access Justifications: Need to retain tight control over access to your data? Learn more about these products and how they can help you solve your security and compliance challenges.Managing Sensitive Data in Hybrid Environments: Learn how Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention can help you manage data, focusing on support for inspection of content in hybrid environments.Threat Prevention, Detection, and ResponsePreventing threats—whether you’re operating in the cloud, on-prem, or in a hybrid model—is a huge part of almost any security practitioner’s job. Check out these sessions to improve your organization’s threat preparedness.Take Control of Security with Cloud Security Command Center: See how Cloud SCC can help you prevent, detect, and respond to threats in your Google Cloud environment.How You Can Protect Your Web Sites and Applications with Google Cloud Armor: Learn what the latest Cloud Armor announcements mean for you, complete with real-life examples and case studies.Protect Your Customers from Phishing, Malware, Fraud, and Hijacking with Google Cloud User Protection Suite Powered by Google Safe Browsing and reCAPTCHA: Keeping your users safe is job 1. This session shows how you can reduce online fraud with reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Web Risk API.Scale-Up to Your Security Telemetry: Take an in-depth look at how to use Chronicle, our cloud-native security analytics system built on core Google infrastructure and fed by a massive threat database to be better prepared for threats.Identity & Access ManagementIdentity and access management is one of the key control points in the cloud. These sessions detail the ways you can make sure that the right users have access to the right resources to get their jobs done.Getting Started With BeyondCorp: A Deeper Look into IAP: Check out this session to understand why your company may need to adopt a new, zero-trust security model and how to get started.Using Policy Intelligence to Achieve Least Privilege Access: See how to improve visibility into who has access to what, quickly resolve access control issues, and discover best practices for putting tight controls around your cloud resources to increase security and reduce risk.Uber Presents: Minimizing Permissions Using IAM Recommender: Learn how Uber integrated IAM Recommender with their security hardening pipeline to tighten IAM policies, then look into best practices for improving your IAM without increasing your workload.Advanced IAM: Hacks, Tips, and Tricks for Policy Management: Take a deep-dive into access policy management in IAM, with advanced topics like avoiding policy change conflicts through concurrency control, policy attachment point discovery, client library usage, and more.Deep-Dive: Google Cloud’s Managed Microsoft AD and Applications: Get back on the board for another deep dive, this time into the Google Cloud Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory.Authentication for Anthos Clusters: Dry off and take a walk through how to authenticate to Anthos clusters, including how to integrate with your identity providers using protocols such as OIDC and LDAP, then check out some hybrid-cloud scenarios to see how to leverage existing authentication tools with Anthos.CollaborationOur productivity and collaboration tools help teams work better together. These sessions will provide you with a blueprint on how G Suite secures your data, and the controls you have to do even more.Keep Hackers Out: A Use-case-led Approach to G Suite Security: Take a deep dive into the security use-cases that customers can solve with G Suite: What do I do if I detect a phishing incident? Looks like a device is compromised, how do I go about remediating? How can I find out who is sharing what outside the organization?No User Left Behind: Empowering Collaboration with Security: Enable seamless security to ensure that G Suite users can access data safely and securely while preserving individual trust and privacy. ComplianceSecurity and compliance are among the first topics that companies face when considering moving workloads to public clouds. These sessions provide the best practices and technology you need to help meet your compliance obligations.Master Security and Compliance in the Public Cloud: Discuss how customers and Google work together to be able to deploy workloads that must meet regulatory and compliance requirements.Building Trust Through Customer Collaboration: Learn how our Cloud Trust team engages with customers to ensure you can confidently adopt our products, whether through pooled audits, contractual commitments, or even a walk through of one of our global data centers.Security, Privacy, and Compliance Solutions for Healthcare: Take a detailed look at how Google Cloud can help healthcare organizations address the many challenges they’re facing and improve the security and governance of their systems while efficiently migrating to the cloud.Mission Possible: Moving Your Most Sensitive Data to GCP: With Assured Workloads, you can move your most sensitive data to Google Cloud while configuring data location controls, administrative access controls, and encryption parameters. Check out this session to learn how.When you’re done with your sessions, be sure to check out the Security Week recap, and keep visiting the blog for more security content.
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Google Cloud AI and Harvard Global Health Institute Collaborate on new COVID-19 forecasting model

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on the world, from changing the way we live to driving extraordinary acts of human compassion. Nowhere have both the disruption and perseverance been more evident than among the front-line workers who continue to respond tirelessly.In partnership with the Harvard Global Health Institute, Google Cloud is releasing the COVID-19 Public Forecasts to serve as an additional resource for first responders in healthcare, the public sector, and other impacted organizations preparing for what lies ahead. These forecasts are available for free and provide a projection of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and other metrics over the next 14 days for US counties and states.The COVID-19 Public Forecasts are trained on public data such as those from Johns Hopkins University, Descartes Lab, and the United States Census Bureau and will continue to be updated with guidance from the Harvard Global Health Institute.“The COVID-19 Public Forecasts model produces forecasts at the critical jurisdiction of public health action—the county. Coupled with the work of the Harvard Global Health Institute’s county-level COVID-19 Suppression Metrics, the COVID-19 Public Forecast Model will allow for targeted testing and public health interventions on a county-by-county basis. By providing accurate, timely predictions of cases, infections, hospitalizations, and deaths to both policy makers and the general public, it will enhance our ability to understand and respond to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic,” said Dr. Thomas Tsai, surgeon and health policy researcher in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.Alongside other data sources, the COVID-19 Public Forecasts can be a helpful resource for those at the front lines of responding to this pandemic who are seeking to better understand and prepare for the progression of COVID-19 in their region. For example, healthcare providers can incorporate the forecasted number of COVID-19 cases as one datapoint in resource planning for PPE, staffing, and scheduling. Similarly, state and county health departments can use the forecast of infections over the next two weeks to help inform their testing strategy and help identify areas at risk of new outbreaks.“As healthcare providers, the ability to ever more accurately predict the evolution of this pandemic is vital to our ability to prepare for, and manage, the COVID-19 crisis,” said Dr. Edmund Jackson, Chief Data Officer at HCA Healthcare. “Having Google bring their unique compute and AI prowess to better answering this question is enormously helpful. We are excited to be part of this work.”To generate the COVID-19 Public Forecasts, Google Cloud researchers developed a novel time series machine learning approach that combines AI with a robust epidemiological foundation. By design, this new model is trained on public data and leverages an architecture that allows researchers to dive into the different relationships that the model has learned to better interpret why it makes certain forecasts. We hope that these measures not only help the public understand how the model works, but can also enable further innovation in infectious disease modeling.The COVID-19 Public Forecasts are free to query in BigQuery or to download as CSVs (state forecast CSV and county forecast CSV). Additionally, they are available through our Data Studio dashboard and as part of the National Response Portal. We are also publishing a full explanation of the novel methodology and the datasets used in our White Paper and User Guide. As with any forecasts, the COVID-19 Public Forecasts have limitations that should be carefully considered before being used to inform decisions. In order to download or use the forecasts, users must agree to the Google Terms of Service.Google is committed to a core set of AI principles. In developing the COVID-19 Public Forecasts, we paid close attention to the disproportionate impact the disease has had and how that would impact our adherence to these principles, particularly principle #2: “Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias.” CDC research has shown that communities of color in the United States have been the hardest hit by COVID-19 with disproportionately high rates of cases and deaths. Our team has conducted a comprehensive fairness analysis to investigate how that disproportionate impact affects the accuracy of our forecasts and how they should be interpreted. We encourage all users who intend to make decisions in part based on the COVID-19 Public Forecasts to closely review the Fairness Analysis. Additionally, we call for an open dialog among public health officials and the AI community in how to address these inequities and measure how their impact may appear in various AI models.We are excited to focus Google Cloud’s commitment to innovation in AI to help those on the front lines of the COVID-19 response. Learn more about the COVID-19 Public Forecasts from our User Guide and White Paper, or get started with the data now in BigQuery, Data Studio dashboard, the National Response Portal, or via the CSV data (state, county).
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