Security means understanding assets, adversaries, and threats paid googlecloud
Heather Adkins, Google’s Director of Information Security, is a 17-year Google veteran. She leads a team that goes up against the world’s fiercest hackers every day, in one of the world’s largest computing environments. She also spends a lot of time with representatives of governments, institutions, and other companies, which gives her one of the broadest and deepest understandings not just of modern security threats, but of building security that works for a thriving organization.
Heather Adkins: It’s not just about scale. Each organization faces security issues with some unique challenges. Think about a gaming company: A lot of adversaries are going to be people who will want to get free services, or steal money out of the games. There may be a little bit of personal information stored about you on the gaming servers, but it’s fairly limited. That’s very different from Google, which is working with a very different dataset for different purposes.
Then when we launched Gmail, it was one of the most complex web applications in existence at the time, and few had the experience to secure something like it. So suddenly you need a rare type of web application security experts who know how to spot and prevent esoteric vulnerabilities. At least they were relatively unknown at the time, but today you hear about them all the time. Thus, security roles started to become more specialized as people gained deeper knowledge.
Adkins: Some of the components are just computers, and for the most part we know how to do that. The rest of it is research into how to secure the new or unique components, and how to think about the car’s adversaries. What would an attacker possibly want to do with a car if they could get control of it? This type of adversarial thinking is a unique skillset all on its own.
Hardy: If we are in this kind of complexity, with computers in different contexts, novel behaviors, security determined by a particular company’s source of value, can we ever feel particularly safe?
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