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Chronicle Cyber Shield: Google Cloud’s National Security Strategy Digital Defence

The protection of its inhabitants, institutions, infrastructure, and way of life is one of the main duties of any government. These same populations, institutions, infrastructure, and ways of life are increasingly vulnerable to malevolent conduct online because of the advent of the global Internet and the absence of traditional borders. Critical online services must now be protected and defended more than ever because many governments’ threat profiles have changed.

In comparison to 2021, response attempts for government-affiliated organisations accounted for 25% of all intrusions that Mandiant assessed in 2022. This is primarily due to the substantial effort Mandiant has done to assist clients who have been impacted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

We have developed Chronicle CyberShield to offer government agencies a solution that unifies threat intelligence, detection, and response. This will enable governments all around the world to continue to reap the advantages of digital transformation while reducing the risk of cyber threats. Chronicle CyberShield is distinctive in that it makes it possible for numerous government agencies to quickly and proactively share threat intelligence, expedite investigations, and launch a coordinated response.

National knowledge of the threat situation

Governments must make investments in enhancing their cybersecurity capabilities and foster a teamwork environment that promotes better information sharing and widespread threat awareness. They must build capabilities to secure the networks that support key national infrastructure and lessen the impact and severity of cyberattacks on those systems. Governments must also make sure the cloud is dependable and safe as they use it to speed up innovation and produce repeatable results. Finally, and most significantly, government organisations need to be equipped with cutting-edge skills and capabilities to protect themselves from a threat environment that is always changing.

A government’s broad attack surface makes visibility and situational knowledge of the threat landscape essential. Even nations with developed cybersecurity postures are vulnerable to the most sophisticated persistent threat actors, who are always improving their methods. In order to avert massive cyber catastrophes, it is crucial to quickly aggregate security events and share actionable cyber threat intelligence extensively across the government sector.

CyberShield by Chronicle

In order to protect web-facing infrastructure from cyberattacks, monitor and detect indicators of compromise, malware, and intrusions, and quickly respond to cyberattacks in order to reduce their effects, governments can use Chronicle CyberShield. In order to raise the standard for security on a national scale, governments can also use technology to increase threat and situational awareness, develop cybersecurity skills and capabilities, and promote knowledge exchange and collaboration.

Cybershield’s essential parts

utilising a contemporary security operations centre to enhance situational threat awareness

The core of upholding digital integrity and security in the digital age is running an advanced and efficient Security Operations Centre (SOC). Establishing a contemporary government SOC with a network of connected SOCs to scale and aggregate security threats is a key part of Chronicle CyberShield. This gives governments the ability to run a cyber defence centre for improved detection, defence against significant attacks, automated response, and incident management across several organisations.

Additionally, Chronicle CyberShield enables governments to create a coordinated monitoring capacity using Chronicle SIEM to streamline threat identification, investigation, and hunting with Google’s expertise, speed, and scale. Attack patterns and connected threat behaviour across numerous entities are available for inquiry and analysis thanks to the implementation of Chronicle throughout a network of SOCs. Governments can quickly analyse huge volumes of security telemetry thanks to Chronicle’s cloud-focused scalable architecture and cutting-edge pricing approach without sacrificing visibility, performance, or costs.     

To address root causes and lessen the impact of threats and cyberattacks, automated playbooks can be created in Chronicle SOAR once threats have been recognised in Chronicle SIEM. In order to achieve faster insights, data can be enhanced with threat intelligence and additional context using integration with third party systems like Chronicle SOAR. By identifying threats more quickly and containing them more quickly, analysts in the government SOC may concentrate on resolving cases more quickly and decreasing dwell time.

Time is of the essence when large cyberattacks occur in order to fully comprehend their scale and impact. Governments require more assistance to improve their internal capacity to handle any serious security issue across its entire lifecycle. Governments can agree on pre-established terms and conditions for incident management and response help from Mandiant using Chronicle CyberShield, saving valuable time when it counts the most.  

Last but not least, to increase detection and response capabilities and stay one step ahead of attackers, continual validation is necessary. To find flaws and harden systems, governments must regularly test security measures by launching actual attacks against crucial assets. In order to evaluate security policies and safeguard crucial assets by locating and addressing security gaps and vulnerabilities, Mandiant provides continuous red teaming and penetration testing services as part of Chronicle CyberShield.

Governments are able to quickly identify and address risks by regularly evaluating security controls and capabilities. As a result, teams are better equipped to mobilise quickly in response to serious threats and have increased situational awareness.

Components of government SOC

Chronicle CyberShield gives governments the capacity to defend online applications against sophisticated cyberattacks in addition to monitoring and responding to threats. Governments can interface with existing solutions and create anti-DDoS, anti-bot, web application firewall (WAF), and API protection with the help of Chronicle CyberShield’s Digital Security component to safeguard against both new and ongoing threats.

Applications are shielded from DDoS attacks by Cloud Armour, which also reduces exposure to the OWASP Top 10 dangers. Integration with reCAPTCHA Enterprise detects spam, fraud, and abuse such automated account creation, scraping, credential stuffing, and exploitation from automated bots. Finally, Apigee API management is used to safeguard applications and APIs.

Protect yourself from tomorrow’s assaults today.

To help governments even more, CyberShield offers consultancy services from Google Cloud and Mandiant.

Governments can build core competencies to enhance security governance, upskill talent within the government, enhance knowledge sharing and collaboration, and drive efficient security operations by leveraging Google Cloud’s professional services and Mandiant’s government consulting solutions and expertise. The establishment of an Advanced Skills Academy with instructor-led and web-based training on cybersecurity subjects like cloud security foundations, threat modelling, and secure architecture design allows governments to assess their skills against our National Cybersecurity Capability Framework. Governments can undertake cyber attack simulations and tabletop exercises with assistance from Google Cloud and Mandiant to test current controls and be well-prepared for upcoming cyberattacks.

Capabilities of the Chronicle Cybershield

In conclusion, governments will be able to improve situational threat awareness across a network of connected SOCs thanks to Chronicle CyberShield, which is supported by the speed, size, and performance of Chronicle sec operations suite. Additionally, governments receive Google-scale superior security against DDoS, L7, and bot attacks for web apps, services, and APIs. Finally, Chronicle CyberShield equips governments with the tools they need to strengthen security governance, develop talent, and make wise choices that will safeguard the country.