Cybercriminals often use lateral movement techniques when exploring a compromised network to slide sideways, from devices to applications, as they hunt for vulnerabilities, escalate access privileges, and seek to reach their ultimate target. Research published today by Palo Alto Networks highlights several techniques that exploit misconfigurations which could allow a malicious actor to move laterally […]

Network service exposure and monetization via standardized APIs has been a focus area for many Communications Service Providers (CSPs) globally for several years now. These efforts have recently gathered momentum via industry-wide efforts including GSMA Open Gateway, a GSMA-led alliance with a focus on providing common standard services by all CSPs, following the CAMARA specifications […]

Google Cloud has been delivering AI innovations to the contact center for almost a decade. Our Contact Center AI (CCAI) solutions are deployed across almost every industry — from financial services to automotive, retail, healthcare — and especially in telecommunications. Over the course of that time, we have seen tens of millions of call deflections […]

As developers use Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s end-to-end AI platform that includes intuitive tooling to build the next generation of AI applications, IT teams are called on to bolster cloud infrastructure security. Aligned with the Secure AI Framework (SAIF) we introduced last year, we want to share approaches and tools customers can use to help […]

The Cross-Cloud Network provides you with a set of functionality and architectures that allows any-to-any connectivity. This was announced during Next 23, and if you read on you’ll get an overview of the ebook “Introduction to Google Cross-Cloud Network” . What is the Cross-Cloud Network? Cross-Cloud Network is a solution that addresses the need from […]

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When meeting with Communications Service Providers (CSPs) around the world, there is one clear theme: artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the game, unlocking significant value across the CSP value chain, and changing how CSPs and their customers interact with technology. MWC’24 is no exception, and we are thrilled to be back in Barcelona this week […]

Securing cloud credentials has emerged as a challenge on the scale of Moby Dick: It presents an enormous problem, and simple solutions remain elusive. Credential security problems are also widespread: More than 69% of cloud compromises were caused by credential issues, including weak passwords, no passwords, and exposed APIs, according to Google Cloud’s Q3 2023 […]

Private Service Connect is a Cloud Networking offering that creates a private and secure connection from your VPC networks to a service producer, and is designed to help you consume services faster, protect your data, and simplify service management. However, like all complex networking setups, sometimes things don’t work as planned. In this post, you […]

Spanner has emerged as a compelling choice for enterprises seeking to address the limitations of traditional databases. With the general availability and increasing popularity of Spanner PostgreSQL dialect, there is growing interest in migrating from PostgreSQL to Spanner.  Migrating from a PostgreSQL database to Spanner (PostgreSQL dialect) can bring significant benefits, including:  Horizontal scalability Strong […]