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Security issues continue to disrupt the status quo for global enterprises. Recent incidents highlight the need to re-think our security plans and operations; attackers are getting smarter, attacks are more sophisticated, and assumptions about what is and isn’t locked down no longer hold. The challenge, however, is to enable disruptive innovation in security without disrupting security operations. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Google’s comprehensive zero trust product offering, BeyondCorp Enterprise, which extends and replaces BeyondCorp Remote Access. Google is no stranger to zero trust—we’ve been on this journey for over a decade with our own implementation of BeyondCorp, a technology suite we use internally to protect Google’s applications, data, and users. BeyondCorp Enterprise brings this modern, proven technology to organizations so they can get started on their own zero trust journey. Living and breathing zero trust for this long, we know that organizations need a solution that will not only improve their security posture, but also deliver a simple experience for users and administrators.A modern, proven, and open approach to zero trustBecause our own zero trust journey at Google has been ongoing for a decade, we realize customers can’t merely flip a switch to make zero trust a reality in their own organizations, especially given varying resources and computing environments that might look different than ours. Nonetheless, these enterprises understand the zero trust journey is an imperative. As a result, we’ve invested many years in bringing our customers a solution that is cost-effective and requires minimal disruption to existing deployments and business processes, using trust, reliability and scale as our primary design criteria.The end result is, BeyondCorp Enterprise, delivering three key benefits to customers and partners:1) A scalable, reliable zero trust platform in a secure, agentless architecture, including: Non-disruptive, agentless support delivered through the Chrome Browser, which supports more than 2 billion users worldwide.Google’s global network with 144 network edge locations, available in more than 200 countries and territories, so that users can work reliably from anywhere.The entire surface area protected by our scalable DDoS protection service, proven to withstand the largest DDoS attacks recorded (2.5 TB/sec) in recent times.Built-in, verifiable platform security, which has been made more important with recent software supply chain attacks. 2) Continuous and real-time end-to-end protectionEmbedded data and threat protection, newly added to Chrome, to prevent malicious or unintentional data loss and exfiltration and malware infections from the network to the browser.Strong phishing-resistant authentication to ensure that users are who they say they are. Continuous authorization for every interaction between a user and a BeyondCorp-protected resource. End-to-end security from user to app and app to app (including microsegmentation) inspired by the BeyondProd architecture.Automated public trust SSL certificate lifecycle management for internet-facing BeyondCorp endpoints powered by Google Trust Services. 3) A solution that’s open and extensible, to support a wide variety of complementary solutions Built on an expanding ecosystem of technology partners in our BeyondCorp Alliance which democratizes zero trust and allows customers to leverage existing investments.Open at the endpoint to incorporate signals from partners such as Crowdstrike and Tanium, so customers can utilize this information when building access policies.Extensible at the app to integrate into best-in-class services from partners such as Citrix and VMware.In short, if cloud-native zero trust computing is the future—and we believe it is—then our solution is unmatched when it comes to providing scale, security and user experience. With BeyondCorp Enterprise, we are bringing our proven, scalable platform to customers, meeting their zero trust requirements wherever they are.Customers are committed to zero trustWe’ve worked with customers around the world to battle-test our BeyondCorp Enterprise technology and to help them build a more secure foundation for a modern, zero-trust architecture within their organization. Vaughn Washington, VP of Engineering at Deliveroo, a global food delivery company headquartered in the UK, says, “We love that BeyondCorp Enterprise makes it so easy to bring the zero trust model to our distributed workforce. Having secure access to applications and associated data is critical for our business. With BeyondCorp Enterprise, we manage security at the app level, which removes the need for traditional VPNs and associated risks. With BeyondCorp Enterprise and Chrome Enterprise working together, we have additional visibility and controls to help us keep our data secure.””We want to improve the experience for our developers and continue to raise the bar on our security posture by adopting a zero trust architecture. Google’s experience with zero trust and the capabilities of BeyondCorp Enterprise made them an ideal partner for our journey,” said Tim Collyer, Director of Enterprise Information Security at Motorola Solutions, Inc.Support from a robust ecosystem of partnersOur partners are key to our effort to further promote and democratize this technology. The BeyondCorp Alliance allows customers to leverage existing controls to make adoption easier while adding key functionality and intelligence that enables customers to make better access decisions. Check Point, Citrix, CrowdStrike, Jamf, Lookout, McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, Symantec (a division of Broadcom), Tanium and VMware are members of our Alliance who share our vision.“As we enter a new era of security, enterprises want a seamless security model attuned to the realities of remote work, cloud applications, and mobile communications. Zero trust is that model, and critical to its efficacy is the ability to readily assess the health of endpoints. Who is accessing them? Do they contain vulnerabilities? Are they patched and compliant?” said Orion Hindawi, co-founder and CEO of Tanium. “With Google Cloud, we’re on a journey to offer today’s distributed businesses joint solutions that provide visibility and control into activities across any network to any application for both users and endpoints.”Matthew Polly, VP WW Alliances, Channels, and Business Development at CrowdStrike said, “In today’s complex threat environment, zero trust security is fundamental for successful protection. BeyondCorp Enterprise customers will be able to seamlessly leverage the power of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to deliver complete protection through verified access control to their business data and applications and secure their assets and users from the sophisticated tactics of cyber adversaries, including lateral movement.” “The rapid move to the cloud and remote work are creating dynamic work environments that promise to drive new levels of productivity and innovation. But they have also opened the door to a host of new security concerns and sparked a significant increase in cyberattacks,” said Fermin Serna, Chief Information Security Officer, Citrix. “To defend against them, enterprises must take an intelligent approach to workspace security that protects employees without getting in the way of their experience following the zero trust model. And with Citrix Workspace and BeyondCorp Enterprise, they can do just this.”Dan Quintas, Sr. Director of Product Management at VMware also added, “Google’s commitment to security is clear and in today’s environment, device access policies are a key piece of the zero trust framework. Using Workspace ONE integrations in BeyondCorp Enterprise, customers can leverage device compliance status information to protect corporate information and ensure their users stay productive and secure.”We also continue to collaborate with Deloitte’s industry-leading cyber practice to deliver end-to-end architecture, design, and deployment services to assist our customers’ zero-trust journeys.“Implementing and operationalizing a zero trust architecture is critically important for organizations today,” said Deborah Golden, Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory Cyber & Strategic Risk leader and principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP. “Both Google Cloud and Deloitte are well positioned to deliver this secure transformative change for our clients and together provide a modern security approach that’s seamless to integrate into existing infrastructures.”Take the next stepThe adoption of zero trust is an imperative for security modernization, and BeyondCorp Enterprise can help organizations overcome the challenges that come with the embrace of such a disruptive innovation. To learn more about BeyondCorp Enterprise, register for our upcoming webinar on Feb 23 and be sure to check out our BeyondCorp product home page.To learn more about the security features of Chrome Enterprise, including the new threat and data protection features available in BeyondCorp Enterprise, attend our upcoming webinar on January 28 by registering here.
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27. Januar 2021

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How our customers modernize business intelligence with BigQuery and Looker

Businesses increasingly gather data to better understand their customers, products, marketing, and more. But unlocking valuable and meaningful insights from that data requires powerful, reliable, and scalable solutions. We hear from our BigQuery and Looker customers that they’ve been able to modernize business intelligence (BI) and allow self-service discovery on the data the business collects. Insights are quickly made available not just to data scientists or data analysts, but to everyone in your organization, including key business decision-makers. In this post, we hear from several Google Cloud customers who’ve used BigQuery and Looker and how they’re using their data insights to unlock new opportunities. Data analysis, acceleratedSunrun, the leader in residential solar power, offers clean, reliable, affordable solar energy and battery storage solutions. With the increasing demand for renewable energy, Sunrun needed a better way to manage their growing volumes of data across installation operations, installed systems, customer operations, and sales. Their legacy data stack required IT and data team support for almost every internal data request. Sunrun’s legacy Oracle data warehouse wasn’t equipped to scale across growing analytics demands or easily unlock predictive insights, and this limitation led to data silos and conflicts. After their evaluation process, Sunrun migrated to Google Cloud’s smart analytics platform—including BigQuery and Looker —to reduce extract, transform, and load (ETL) complexity, run fast queries with ease, and make data accessible and trusted throughout the organization. Key benefitsOptimization of construction processes through insights into productivity and labor data, making planning more efficient and identifying areas of opportunity.A 50% reduction in data warehouse design time, ETL, and data modeling.A reduction of their entire data development cycle by more than 60% to enable accelerated decision-making with a modernized, simplified architecture.An enablement of self-service analytics across their core business through a hub-and-spoke analytics model, ensuring all metrics are governed and trusted.A unification of metric definitions throughout the company with LookML, Looker’s modeling layer.Looker dashboards that facilitate regular executive huddles to set and execute data-driven strategies based on a single source of truth.With Looker, Sunrun was able to bring the IT and business sides of the organization closer together, and improve their ability to recognize trends across their retail business, including the performance and impact of their relationships with major retail partners. Across Sunrun, data is analyzed with the customer’s experience and business goals in mind. Since Sunrun’s migration from their on-premises legacy data stack to a modern cloud environment, they’ve created infrastructure and business-wide efficiencies to help them meet the growing demand for solar power.Business intelligence you can build uponAfter relying upon Excel workbooks for data analysis, Emery Sapp & Sons, a heavy civil engineering company, chose BigQuery and Looker as key components of a new data stack that could scale with their business growth. This unified their wide variety of data sources and provided them with a holistic view of the business. Looker met their need to enable user-friendly self-service across the organization, so that all teams could access and act on accurate data through a business-user friendly interface, all with minimal maintenance.Key benefitsPre-built, automated cost and payroll reports in Looker deliver data on schedule in a fraction of the time that Emery Sapp & Sons teams used to spend generating reports.A weekly profitability and accounts receivable dashboard with real-time data allows them to better predict cash flows and provide guidance on which customers they need to be talking with.Tracking of Zendesk support tickets in Looker easily shows what’s open, urgent, high priority, pending, and closed, allowing them to identify trends.Instant access to total outstanding amounts and bills owing reports for the accounts receivable team. Branch managers can sort that information by customer and prioritize follow-up communications. Now able to visualize the necessary information intuitively, Emery Sapp & Sons can quickly understand and act upon important data. Since modernizing their data stack, they’ve cut hours they once spent on manual activities and freed up time to concentrate on what the data means for their business. They can now focus on strategic initiatives that will fuel their growth and serve their customers.Advancing care in an uncertain timeCommonwealth Care Alliance (CCA) is a community-based healthcare organization providing and coordinating care for high-need individuals who are often vulnerable or marginalized. At the first signs of COVID-19 last winter, CCA knew their members would need enhanced care and attention. Their staff and clinicians would need reliable data that was available quickly and integrated across many domains and sources. Fortunately, they had already put in place an advanced analytics platform with BigQuery and Looker, which the CCA data science team has used to deliver valuable information and predictive insights to CCA’s clinicians, and to develop and deploy data ops and machine learning (ML) ops capabilities. All of Google Cloud was available under a single business associate agreement (BAA) to meet CCA’s HIPAA requirements, and BigQuery proved elastic and available as a service. These two features offered reliable platform performance and allowed the small data science team to stay focused and nimble while remaining compliant.Using a query abstraction and a columnar-based data engine, CCA could adapt to clinicians’ changing needs and provide data and predictive insights via general dashboards and role-specific dashboards—internally referred to as action boards, which help clinicians decide how to react to the specific needs of each member. Key benefitsRegular updates to BigQuery and Looker from CCA’s internal care management platform and electronic health records.Quick creation and distribution of custom concepts—such as “high risk for COVID-19”—in Looker’s flexible modeling layer, LookML. Tailored dashboards allow each clinician and care manager to access data relevant to their members, including recommended actions for coordinated care.Looker’s user attributes and permissions integrate with data, such as service disruptions, to allow clinicians to understand and react to changing conditions.Using BigQuery and Looker, CCA’s data science team provides secure, companywide access to trusted data without burdening internal resources. As the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects continue to evolve, CCA continually uses the latest available information to update and guide their member support and care strategies. Now, the data science team can move on to deeper feature engineering and causal inference to enrich the insights delivered to their clinicians and the care provided to their members.Saving $10,000 a month and moreLabel Insight helps retailers and brands stay on top of trends and market demand by analyzing the packaging and labeling of different products. Their customers use this information to inform decisions around repackaging existing products or creating new products that are in line with the latest dietary trends. Before, with their on-premises legacy BI system, numerous data silos, and cumbersome processes, it became increasingly costly, complicated, and time-consuming to quickly extract helpful insights from the data. Though Label Insight had rich data sets, accessing them would often take one person an entire week of analysis. This process was not scalable, repeatable, or reliable. Today, Label Insight’s new data platform includes BigQuery as their data warehouse and Looker for business intelligence. When evaluating data warehouse offerings, their executive team found that the more they used BigQuery, the more they’d receive significant benefits and ROI for the company. BigQuery now offers them virtually infinite, cost-effective, scalable storage capacity and unrivalled performance.With easy-to-set-up dashboards, reporting, and analytics, Looker democratizes data for users across the entire Label Insight organization. Looker also enables governance and control, helping them make use of the high-quality data in BigQuery, and freeing up their data team from constantly managing reporting requests. With Looker’s ability to integrate insights via embedded analytics into its existing applications like Slack, Label Insight can access consistent, accurate data in their favorite task management tools, enabling everyone to continue providing value to their customers.Key benefitsAn ROI of 200%, with a savings of 120 labor hours on reporting per week, which has opened up time and resources for their teams to pursue new initiatives.A recurring savings amounting to $10,000/month.An approximately 60% (and growing) user engagement score on the platform, and with the help of their Looker superusers, goals to continue growing that number.Extract, transform and load (ETL) automation with Fivetran provides quick and easy access to data across their 17 different sources.Modernizing Label Insight’s data technology stack has transformed their business in all the ways they were hoping for. Home-run engagement for fans and clubsThe fan data engineering team at Major League Baseball (MLB) is responsible for managing more than 350 data pipelines to ingest data from third-party and internal sources and centralize it in an enterprise data warehouse (EDW). That EDW drives data-related initiatives across the internal product, marketing, finance, ticketing, shop, analytics, and data science departments, and from all 30 MLB Clubs. The team had previously used Teradata as their EDW.MLB was experiencing issues such as query failures and latency and synchronization problems with their EDW. Providing direct user access was often challenging due to network connectivity restrictions and client software setup issues. With a migration from Teradata to BigQuery completed in 2019, MLB has realized numerous benefits from their modern, cloud-first data warehouse platform.Key benefitsSide-by-side performance tests run with minimal cost and no commitment. By switching from on-demand to flat-rate pricing, MLB could fix costs, avoid surprise overages, and share unused capacity between departments.Data democratization boosted by the secure, one-click sharing of datasets with any Workspace user or group. Access to BigQuery’s web console to review and run SQL queries on data, and to use Connected Sheets to analyze large data sets with pivot tables in a familiar interface. A 50% increase in query completion speed compared with the previous EDW. Integrations with several services MLB uses, including Google Ads, Google Campaign Manager, and Firebase.Integration of BigQuery with Looker, MLB’s new BI tool, which provides a clean and high-performing interface for business users to access and drill into data. A reduction in operational overhead of the previous database administration.Support coverage by Google for any major service issues, letting IT teams focus on more strategic work.MLB can now take a more comprehensive and frictionless approach to using data to serve their fans and the league. Two projects already facilitated by their move to BigQuery and Looker include:OneView: This initiative compiles over 30 pertinent data sources into a single table, with one row per fan, to facilitate downstream personalization and segmentation initiatives like news article personalization. Real-time form submission reporting: By using the Google-provided Dataflow template to stream data from Pub/Sub in real time to BigQuery, MLB creates Looker dashboards with real-time reporting on form submissions for initiatives such as their “Opening Day Pick ‘Em” contest. This allows their editorial team to create up-to-the-minute analyses of results.With MLB’s new data stack up and running, they’re able to serve data stakeholders better than ever before, and can harness their new data-driven capabilities to create better online and in-person experiences for their fans.Ready to modernize your business intelligence? Explore the combined data analytics solution of BigQuery and Looker.Related ArticleHow rapid integrated clinical data helps prioritize care for a vulnerable populationSee how one healthcare company is using data to better connect its doctors and patients during COVID-19, using advanced data analytics in…Read Article
Quelle: Google Cloud Platform