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WHY WE’RE COMMITTING $10 BILLION TO ADVANCE CYBERSECURITY
Aug 25, 2021
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We welcomed the opportunity to participate in President Biden’s White House
Cyber Security Meeting today, and appreciated the chance to share our
recommendations to advance this important agenda. The meeting comes at a timely
moment, as widespread cyberattacks continue to exploit vulnerabilities targeting
people, organizations, and governments around the world.
That’s why today, we are announcing that we will invest $10 billion over the
next five years to strengthen cybersecurity, including expanding zero-trust
programs, helping secure the software supply chain, and enhancing open-source
security. We are also pledging, through the Google Career Certificate program,
to train 100,000 Americans in fields like IT Support and Data Analytics,
learning in-demand skills including data privacy and security.
Governments and businesses are at a watershed moment in addressing
cybersecurity. Cyber attacks are increasingly endangering valuable data and
critical infrastructure. While we welcome increased measures to reinforce
cybersecurity, governments and companies are both facing key challenges:
First, organizations continue to depend on vulnerable legacy infrastructure and
software, rather than adopting modern IT and security practices. Too many
governments still rely on legacy vendor contracts that limit competition and
choice, inflate costs, and create privacy and security risks.
Second, nation-state actors, cybercriminals and other malicious actors continue
to target weaknesses in software supply chains and many vendors don’t have the
tools or expertise to stop them.
Third, countries simply don’t have enough people trained to anticipate and deal
with these threats.
For the past two decades, Google has made security the cornerstone of our
product strategy. We don’t just plug security holes, we work to eliminate entire
classes of threats for consumers and businesses whose work depends on our
services. By making all of our products secure by default, we keep more users
safe than anyone else in the world — blocking malware, phishing attempts, spam
messages, and potential cyber attacks. We’ve published over 160 academic
research papers on computer security, privacy, and abuse prevention, and we warn
other software companies of weaknesses in their systems. And dedicated teams
like our Threat Analysis Group work to counter government-backed hacking and
attacks against Google and our users, making the internet safer for everyone.
EXTENDING THE ZERO-TRUST SECURITY MODEL
We’re one of the pioneers in zero-trust computing, in which no person, device,
or network enjoys inherent trust. Trust that allows access to information must
be earned. We’ve learned a lot about both the power and the challenges of
running this model at scale.
Implemented properly, zero-trust computing provides the highest level of
security for organizations. We support the White House effort to deploy this
model across the federal government.
As government and industry work together to develop and implement zero-trust
solutions for employee access to corporate assets, we also need to apply the
approach to production environments. This is necessary to address events like
Solarwinds, where attackers used access to the production environment to
compromise dozens of outside entities. The U.S. government can encourage
adoption by expanding zero-trust guidelines and reference architecture language
in the Executive Order implementation process to include production
environments, which in addition to application segmentation substantially
improves an organization’s defense in depth strategy.
SECURING THE SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN
Following the Solarwinds attack, the software world gained a deeper
understanding of the real risks and ramifications of supply chain attacks.
Today, the vast majority of modern software development makes use of open source
software, including software incorporated in many aspects of critical
infrastructure and national security systems. Despite this, there is no formal
requirement or standard for maintaining the security of that software. Most of
the work that is done to enhance the security of open source software, including
fixing known vulnerabilities, is done on an ad hoc basis.
That’s why we worked with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) to
develop and release Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA or
“salsa”), a proven framework for securing the software supply chain. In our
view, wide support for and adoption of the SLSA framework will raise the
security bar for the entire software ecosystem.
To further advance our work and the broader community’s work in this space, we
committed to invest in the expansion of the application of the SLSA framework to
protect the key components of open-source software widely used by many
organizations. We also pledged to provide $100 million to support third-party
foundations, like OpenSSF, that manage open source security priorities and help
fix vulnerabilities.
STRENGTHENING THE DIGITAL SECURITY SKILLS OF THE AMERICAN WORKFORCE
Robust cybersecurity ultimately depends on having the people to implement it.
That includes people with digital skills capable of designing and executing
cybersecurity solutions, as well as promoting awareness of cybersecurity risks
and protocols among the broader population. In short, we need more and better
computer security education and training.
Over the next three years, we're pledging to help 100,000 Americans earn Google
Career Certificates in fields like IT Support and Data Analytics to learn
in-demand skills including data privacy and security. The certificates are
industry-recognized and supported credentials that equip Americans with the
skills they need to get high-paying, high-growth jobs. To date, more than half
of our graduates have come from backgrounds underserved in tech (Black, Latinx,
veteran, or female). 46% of our graduates come from the lowest income tertile in
the country. And the results are strong: 82% of our graduates report a positive
career impact within six months of graduation. Additionally, we will train over
10 million Americans in digital skills from basic to advanced by 2023.
Leading the world in cybersecurity is critical to our national security. Today’s
meeting at the White House was both an acknowledgment of the threats we face and
a call to action to address them. It emphasized cybersecurity as a global
imperative and encouraged new ways of thinking and partnering across government,
industry and academia. We look forward to working with the Administration and
others to define and drive a new era in cybersecurity. Our collective safety,
economic growth, and future innovation depend on it.
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