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The Cyber Savvy Boardroom: Our new podcast

The Cyber-Savvy Boardroom, a monthly 15-20 minute podcast from Google Cloud's OCISO, offers strategic cybersecurity insights for board members, advisors, and C-suite executives. Guests include Google executives, OCISO members, board members, advisors, and thought leaders.

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The ultimate insider threat: North Korean IT workers

Clandestine North Korean IT workers are expanding their operations, focusing on getting hired at major companies in Europe to launch extortion campaigns against employers.

How Google Does It: Red teaming at scale

Get the breakdown on how the Red Team simulates threats to understand hackers' strategies and the takeaways we use to protect our employees, users, and customers.

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How Google is preparing for post-quantum cryptography (and why you should, too)

Quantum computers are a hot topic in the tech world. Learn how boards can help navigate the quantum leap.

Communicating with impact: Tips for discussing cybersecurity metrics with boards

CISOs often have to deal with a dilemma of how to effectively and impactfully communicate metrics to the board.

Moving shields into position: How you can organize security to boost digital transformation

Digital transformation brings new security challenges. Learn how to align security with business goals, integrate security into development, and build a resilient security posture.

Cybersecurity is a team sport

Achieving cybersecurity and resilience is a team effort, and requires building a culture of security awareness.

Leading through change: 5 steps for executives on the cloud transformation path

Taking steps to safeguard data and configure your application security controls, among others, can add an extra competitiveness by enhancing its security posture.

4 ways to improve cybersecurity from the boardroom

Google Cloud's CISO offers 4 tips on getting boards and cybersecurity to work better together.

Want to respond better to the evolving threat landscape?

Give more support to boards and leaders. The view from RSA Conference 2023: Security improvements bring need for more vigilance, not less.

Board of Directors handbook for cloud risk governance

For boards of directors of organizations that are engaging in a new, or substantially increased, adoption of cloud technology perhaps as part of a wider digital transformation of their business.

Risk governance of digital transformation in the cloud

This guidance is important not only for those organizations that are embarking on the use of cloud computing but also for those who are looking to sustain and expand their use of cloud computing.

CISO's guide to cloud security transformation

This whitepaper is aimed at CISOs who are looking to the cloud to improve their security and at CISOs who find themselves moving to the cloud with the rest of their company.

CISO survival guide: Vital questions to help guide transformation success

Part of being a security leader whose organization is taking on a digital transformation is preparing for hard questions—and complex answers—on how to implement a transformation strategy.

The role of AI in cybersecurity

Board members require deeper AI understanding to support informed decision-making while exploring the transformative potential and risks of AI adoption.

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