Shared responsibility model shapes Google’s approach to cloud security [Video]

With the cost of security breaches hitting a record high in 2024, customers and providers can get caught up in the blame game of cloud security, ignoring the nuances of a shared responsibility model.

Addressing modern cybersecurity concerns is complex because of what Anton Chuvakin (pictured), senior staff consultant, Office of the CISO, at Google LLC, calls the cloud security paradox.

“It’s a paradox, but it’s also my obsession,” he said. “There was this line that every analyst knew, cloud is secure but clients are not using it securely and that most breach[es] [are] a customer fault. … But why is it the case? What can we do so that customers use cloud security? We build secure infrastructure, we get that, but cloud use is not always secure. I wanted to distill it down to a framework that people can use rather than just talk about this. We want to have something that improves the client side of the shared responsibility matrix, not just ours.”

Chuvakin spoke with theCUBE …