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Google Cloud chief moves to ServiceNow as COO

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On July 24, ServiceNow said that an internal investigation had determined that the company’s president and COO, CJ Desai, “had violated company policy regarding a possible conflict relating to such individual’s hiring” and that it had reached an agreement with Desai that he would immediately resign from all positions with the company.

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Top 5 Organization Policy Services for Google Cloud

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Top 5 Organization Policy Services for Google Cloud The Google Cloud is a cloud service that enables users to create and manage virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters, store data, and run applications. For every recommended Organisational Policy Constrain.

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From virtualization to cloud: Achieving hybrid cloud success

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There are many benefits of running workloads in the cloud, including greater efficiency, stronger performance, the ability to scale, and ubiquitous access to applications, data, and cloud-native services. That said, there are also advantages to a hybrid approach, where applications live both on-premises and in the cloud.

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How to block DNS exfiltration on Google Cloud

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Securing your cloud network (VPC) using firewall rules is common practice. Google Cloud firewall rules however do not apply to Cloud DNS calls made from the metadata server. Name resolution for Cloud DNS Resources running in Google Cloud use the metadata server ( 169.254.169.254 ) as their name server by default.

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VPC Service Controls – A step by step guide

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This is why many organizations choose to enforce a policy to ban or restrict the usage Cloud NAT. This can cause different problems for applications that in some ways depend on having internet access or even accessing Google services operations. There is a catch: it will open up access to all Google APIs.

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Review your IAM permissions across your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a convenient script

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Reviewing all your granted IAM permissions in your Google Cloud organization can become a quite cumbersome task and can be very time-consuming. To simplify permission reviews, we created a bash script to generate a quick and thorough overview of IAM bindings/roles across the entire Google Cloud Platform.

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Review your IAM permissions across your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a convenient script

Xebia

Reviewing all your granted IAM permissions in your Google Cloud organization can become a quite cumbersome task and can be very time-consuming. To simplify permission reviews, we created a bash script to generate a quick and thorough overview of IAM bindings/roles across the entire Google Cloud Platform.