Among the controls any IT organization needs to have firmly in place, nothing ranks higher than blocking malware. As opposed to a “default allow” policy, which blocks only known bad software, the safer way to do that is through a “default deny” policy that blocks everything except allowed software. The obvious difficulty is that the […]

Practically every company relies on credit card transactions to fuel their business and facilitate the exchange of funds. In fact, many companies, especially those with digitally focused missions, now only accept credit card payments.  This market saturation has attracted a wave of bad actors looking to use the credit card momentum to their advantage. Global […]

Many people think of Cloud Run just as a way of hosting websites. Cloud Run is great at that, but there’s so much more you can do with it. Here we’ll explore how you can use Cloud Run and BigQuery together to create an inventory management system. I’m using a subset of the Iowa Liquor […]

Following up our previous blog post, we are excited to announce that hierarchical firewalls are generally available. Google Cloud’s hierarchical firewall policies provide new, flexible levels of control so that you can benefit from centralized control at the organization and folder level, while safely delegating more granular control within a project to the project owner.  […]