Category: Cloud Security

Under the hood: The security analytics that drive IAM recommendations on Google Cloud

This is a repost of the blog I wrote on Google’s Cloud Blog site IAM Recommender helps security professionals enforce the principle of least privilege by identifying and removing unwanted access to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources. In our previous blog, we described some best practices for achieving least privilege with less effort using IAM Recommender—which uses machine learning

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Exploring the machine learning models behind Cloud IAM Recommender

This is a repost of a blog I wrote on Google Cloud’s site To help you fine-tune your Google Cloud environment, we offer a family of ‘recommenders’ that suggest ways to optimize how you configure your infrastructure and security settings. But unlike many other recommendation engines, which use policy-based rules, some Google Cloud recommenders use

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