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> Look at the number of times other tech companies get hacked compared to Google.

Your whole post is confusing Security of the Cloud with Security in the Cloud. And conflating GCP with Google but those are just examples of why GCP has such a small market percentage.




The security of GCP rests on the security of Google. If Google gets hacked, GCP customers are not secure.

Additionally:

Google offers BeyondCorp products as GCP products. A big example is IAP. Do AWS and Azure offer something like IAP? If so, I think they were created in response to IAP.

Another Google/GCP security product related to zero trust is Chrome Enterprise Premium: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/int... .

Another innovative GCP security product is VPC Service Controls. Do AWS and Azure offer something like that? If so, I think they were created in response to VPC Service Controls.

Security keys: I mentioned in my previous comment how they're used by consumers (that includes GCP customers). GCP is making MFA mandatory this year: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/man...

Bug bounties protect GCP customers by making sure GCP products don't have vulnerabilities.

Project Zero protects GCP customers by finding vulnerabilities in products that GCP customers use (although it also finds vulnerabilities in products that AWS and Azure customers use).

When Microsoft got hacked by China in 2023, China stole Microsoft's signing key, and used it to mint tokens to impersonate Azure AD users of Microsoft customers. That's relevant to security in the Cloud.

GCP products are also recognized for security:

https://cloud.google.com/resources/forrester-unstructured-da...

https://www.varonis.com/blog/forrester-wave-data-security-pl...

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modern...

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/goo...

https://www.teradata.com/press-releases/2020/forrester-2020-...




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