Google Cloud Security Foundations Guide

Security Foundations Blueprint

Published February 2021

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Cloud adoption continues to accelerate across enterprises, with more businesses moving from investigating the use of public cloud infrastructure to actually delivering production services to their customers through public clouds. Security in public clouds differs intrinsically from customer-owned infrastructure because there is shared responsibility for security between the customer and the cloud provider.

Google Cloud product and service offerings range from classic platform as a service (PaaS), to infrastructure as a service (IaaS), to software as a service (SaaS). The catalog of Google Cloud offerings continues to grow rapidly, making it important for you to have a reliable, secure foundation to start with and then to leverage service-specific security guidance.