Google Security Operations finished 2024 strong with a wave of impactful features in Q4! We're empowering security teams to visualize, analyze, and act with confidence through our new native dashboards. But that's not all. We've also supercharged threat investigation with Gemini alert summarization in Digital Threat Monitoring and accelerated threat intelligence research with a new search experience in Google Threat Intelligence.
Let’s explore some of the highlights:
Cut Through the Noise with Gemini Alert Summarization
Reduce alert fatigue and accelerate threat investigation with Gemini Digital Threat Monitoring alert summarization. Digital Threat Monitoring now provides concise summaries of all alerts from the open, deep, and dark web, enabling your security team to efficiently prioritize and assess potential threats. Quickly identify critical issues, even across multiple languages, and streamline your incident response workflow. Learn more in our documentation. Automatically enabled for all Google SecOps Enterprise+ customers.
Find the Threat Intelligence You Need, Fast
Conduct searches for threat actors, malware, vulnerabilities and more in Google Threat Intelligence with a new, comprehensive search function. Search key terms and get a wide range of information, from Gemini summaries enriched with curated and community reports to threat objects and indicators of compromise. Our new Google Threat Intelligence search also provides access to reports and analysis, vulnerabilities, crowdsourced rules, threat graphs, comments, and links to the dark web. Learn more in our documentation. Automatically enabled for all Google SecOps Enterprise+ customers.
Get More Relevant Threat Profile Recommendations and Customization Enhancements
Focus on the threats most relevant to your organization. Take control of your threat profile with new customization enhancements and threat profile recommendations! Fine-tune your threat profile by selecting the categories and the number of matches that matter most to you. Get highly relevant recommendations for actors, malware, vulnerabilities, and campaigns tailored precisely to your industry, region, and soon, even more criteria. We've also improved our recommendation engine to ensure you only see the most pertinent threat actors, saving you valuable time and effort. Learn more in our documentation. Automatically enabled for all Google SecOps Enterprise+ customers.
Visualize, Analyze and Act with New Native Dashboards
Simplify your security monitoring and analysis with our completely redesigned native dashboards. Built from the ground up based on valuable feedback from our private preview, these dashboards deliver a seamless and intuitive experience for visualizing, analyzing, and acting on your security data.
Here's what's new:
- Data Visualization in Search: Supercharge your investigations and threat hunting by creating visualizations directly within your search workflows. Add them to dashboards with a single click or use them for ad-hoc analysis.
- Curated Content: Hit the ground running with 14+ pre-built dashboards designed for a wide range of security use cases. We'll be adding more throughout the year to keep you ahead of the curve.
- UX Enhancements: Enjoy a smoother, more intuitive experience with a resizable query editor, custom chart coloring, improved sorting, full-screen viewing, and more.
- Performance Improvements: Experience lightning-fast dashboard loading and interactions thanks to significant optimizations that deliver up to a 50% performance boost.
And don't forget these existing features from our private preview:
- YARA-L Integration: Leverage the full power of YARA-L for advanced data selection and transformation.
- Responsive Dashboards: Enjoy highly responsive dashboards and benefit from the major live query performance enhancements we delivered in 2024.
- Natively Compliant & Available in SecOps Regions: Rest assured that our dashboards meet the same rigorous compliance standards as Google SecOps and are available in all the same regions.
- Data RBAC: Maintain strict data access control with seamless integration with Data RBAC.
- Core Data Visualization Capabilities: Access all the essential visualization tools you need, including popular chart types, robust filtering, and flexible formatting.
Learn more in documentation. Available in preview for all standard, enterprise and enterprise+ Google SecOps customers. Please contact your sales representative if you are interested in testing this feature.
Expanded Regional Support
Meet long-term compliance and jurisdictional requirements with expanded regional support in France and Brazil. Additional regional support is expected to be added throughout 2025. See all of our Google Security Operations data regions in our documentation.
FedRAMP - High Authorization
Google Security Operations has achieved FedRAMP - High authorization, ensuring the security of our cloud-native platform for federal agencies. Learn more in this blog.
Managed Defense Curated Detections Preview Support
Joint Mandiant Managed Defense and Google Security Operations Enterprise and Enterprise+ customers are now eligible to participate in the preview program for curated detections support. This preview program enhances the Managed Defense threat monitoring, triaging, and investigation capabilities across Cloud Threats, Windows Threats, and Linux Threats by leveraging a wider range of log sources available through curated detections.
About Managed Defense:
For customers in need of expert support for managing Google SecOps, we’ve got you covered. Google Security Operations can also work in concert with Managed Defense, which can help you to reduce risks to your organization. Mandiant's team of seasoned defenders, analysts, and threat hunters work seamlessly with your security team and the AI-infused capabilities of Google Security Operations to quickly and effectively monitor, detect, triage, investigate, and respond to incidents. Learn more in this datasheet. Available to purchase as a service add-on .
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