The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) today announced the launch of the CIS & Google Cloud Alliance to help advance security and resilience for the broader technology ecosystem, with an emphasis on the public sector.
Public sector organizations can be particularly susceptible to cyber attacks because of limited resources and reliance on legacy infrastructure. The CIS & Google Cloud Alliance will combine the companies’ extensive experience to offer greater security to these organizations. For the last 20 years, CIS has been assisting U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) governments in securing their organizations against cyber threats and understands the challenges they face. Google Cloud will bring members and services from its Google Cybersecurity Action Team, including unique insights from its Threat Horizons reports and Mandiant’s leading threat intelligence resources, to help achieve better security for the broader technology ecosystem – especially as it relates to cloud posture and overall cybersecurity practices.
CIS is one of the industry’s premier voices on all things cybersecurity and has established a number of globally-recognized security frameworks – like the CIS Critical Security Controls® and CIS BenchmarksTM – and industry thought leadership efforts. CIS also operates the Multi-State and Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (MS-ISAC® and EI-ISAC®), which support the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of SLTT government organizations, including critical infrastructure subsectors like K-12 schools and elections offices.
Similarly, Google Cloud has a longstanding history of advancing cybersecurity and resilience across all verticals. It recently furthered this commitment by announcing plans to invest at least $10 billion over the next 5 years to strengthen cybersecurity. As part of this focus, alongside the CIS & Google Cloud Alliance, Google Cloud has also announced recent partnerships with industry organizations in other sectors like healthcare and financial services (Health-ISAC and FS-ISAC). The company also introduced its Google Public Sector division focused on helping U.S. public sector institutions – including federal, state, and local governments, and educational institutions – accelerate their digital transformations. Together, CIS and Google Cloud are uniquely positioned to support organizations through the complexities of their digital transformations.
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