Scaling the Right Guardrails

Guest:

• Karan Dwivedi, Security Engineering Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure Protection @ Google Cloud

Topics:

• Google’s use of Google Cloud is a massive cloud environment with wildly diverse use cases. Could you share, for our listeners, a few examples of the different kinds of things we’re running in GCP?
• Given that we’re doing these wildly different things in GCP, how do we think about scaling the right security guardrails to the right places in our GCP org?
• How do you work with application engineering teams and project owner teams to make sure the right controls are there but not getting in the way of business? 
• How do we scale this exemption management process? Are there things we do here that don’t make sense at a smaller scale? Are there emergent challenges that only we would face?
• How do you correctly federate security responsibilities between the central team defining policy and the constituent user teams actually using the platform?
• Burnout is a perennial challenge for security teams–what’re you doing to keep your people happy and engaged?

Resources:

• “How We Scale Detection and Response at Google: Automation, Metrics, Toil” (ep75)
• ““Hacking Google”, Op Aurora and Insider Threat at Google” (ep91)
• Google Cloud security foundations guide