The Arsenal(Product Questions)
This product protects websites from automated abuse, such as credential stuffing and scraping, without forcing a legitimate users to click on traffic lights or fire hydrants.
What is reCAPTCHA
This "social engineering" attack uses fraudulent emails or messages that appear to come from a reputable source (like a CEO or Bank) to steal sensitive info like passwords.
What is Phishing?
I'm not the right person
Who on your team typically handles {specific pain point}
Unlike AWS or Azure, which primarily build security tools to lock you into their own platforms, Google Cloud Security products are designed to protect data living in these rival environments as well.
What is Multi-Cloud or Vendor agnostic?
This is the C-level executive title you are usually trying to book a meeting with; they are ultimately responsible for an organization's entire information security program.
Acquired by Google in 2022, this company is world-renowned for its frontline threat intelligence and incident response services, often called in to handle the world's biggest breaches
Who is Mandiant?
This specific type of brute-force attack uses stolen username/password pairs from one data breach and tests them automatically against other websites
What is Credential Stuffing?
Just send me more information
Google Security is a massive platform. To make sure I don't flood your inbox with irrelevant PDFs, can I ask just one question about your current setup so I know what to send?"
While AWS and Azure rely heavily on their own internal data, Google owns the "world's malware search engine"—a platform where security professionals from every country upload suspicious files to be scanned, giving us a unique view into global threats.
What is VirusTotal?
A cybersecurity platform that centralizes, analyzes,and managers logs/events from across an organization's IT infrastructure.
What is a SIEM?
Bonus: What is unique about Google's SIEM?
This unified offering combines the frontline expertise of Mandiant, the global community visibility of VirusTotal, and the breadth of Google’s own threat data into a single platform for actionable insight.
What is Google Threat Intel?
A type of malware that encrypts data, demanding payment for its release
What is Ransomware?
Our team is too small to manage another tool.
Our SOAR (automation) capability is designed to act as a force multiplier, automating the repetitive tasks so your small team can focus on real threats. It’s like hiring a digital analyst.
Competitors like Azure Sentinel and Splunk often force you to move old data to "cold storage" to save money, making it slow to query. Google Security Operations is different because it offers this amount of "hot" searchable retention by default
What is 12 months?
A security mechanism that requires you to provide two or more pieces of evidence to log in (like a password + a text code).
What is MFA or Multi-Factor Authentication?
This centralized risk management platform offers a "single pane of glass" to identify misconfigurations, detect threats like cryptomining, and—in its Enterprise tier—simulates attack paths using "Virtual Red Teaming
What is Security Command Center?
This attack seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by disrupting services with a flood of superfluous requests, often using a botnet.
What is a DDoS attack?
We don't have budget to ingest all our data
We give 12 months of free storage on data that competitors do not allow. As well as flexible pricing.
While Microsoft and AWS sell VPN gateways to help you access private apps, Google commercialized its own internal "VPN-less" architecture—allowing employees to work securely from untrusted networks without a VPN.
What is Zero Trust or BeyondCorp?
Overwhelming a server or network with traffic to make it unavailable.
What is DDoS(Distributed Denial of Service)?
Modeled after Google’s own internal architecture, this solution enables "Zero Trust" access to applications, effectively replacing the need for a traditional VPN.
What is BeyondCorp Enterprise
This term refers to a software vulnerability that is unknown to the vendor, meaning they have had "0 days" to fix it before hackers start exploiting it.
What is a Zero-Day Exploit
GTI: We already have plenty of threat feeds; we have too much data as it is.
You have data, but do you have context? We combine Mandiant’s frontline human intel with VirusTotal’s crowdsourced data. We don't just give you a list of bad IPs; we tell you who is attacking you and why."
Microsoft analyzes trillions of signals, but their intelligence is largely derived from telemetry (logs). Google beats this by adding the "human element" from this acquisition, which provides frontline intel from the actual trenches of the world’s biggest breaches.
What is Mandiant?
While an "IOC" is just a piece of evidence left behind (like a virus file), Mandiant focuses on TTPs—Tactics, Techniques, and ________—to understand how the adversary behaves so we can find them next time.
What are Procedures? (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures)