Optiv, the cyber advisory and solutions leader, has officially announced a partnership with Google Cloud, a partnership which will combine the former’s deep expertise across all cybersecurity domains with the latter’s proven technological capabilities. Leveraging this combination, the stated partnership will make a point to help clients reduce risk in what is an increasingly volatile cyber threat landscape. Talk about the whole value proposition on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the promise of scalable security operations solutions. Here, the idea is to empower clients to improve their defenses, boost productivity, and achieve security, operational, and financial outcomes through SecOps and gen AI capabilities. Alongside that, the partners will also bank upon managed, co-managed and self-service capabilities to realize the given objective. Next up, we must get into the partnership’s take on improving incident response and remediation. This is going to leverage Optiv’s expertise and hard-earned experience across the full spectrum of cyber threats, as well as a best-in-class incident response mechanism, to guide the user big time in recovering from a security incident and resuming full operations as smoothly as possible.
“We’re coupling the power of Optiv’s renowned advisory, implementation and managed capabilities with Google Cloud’s industry-leading brand and technology platform to better serve clients,” said Kevin Lynch, CEO of Optiv. “Business, and the world at-large, is digitizing at an exponential rate. CIOs and CISOs struggle to visualize, modernize and safeguard their assets amidst mass transformation initiatives. To operationalize their entire cloud strategy, they need tailored security solutions and services — when and where they need them – fast and everywhere.”
Hold on, we still have a couple of bits left to unpack, considering we still haven’t touched on the collaboration’s focus on end-to-end SecOps transformation. Now the official solution partner for Google Cloud, Optiv will look to offer here a set of design and implementation services that will be well-equipped to ensure effective cloud security feature adoption and data security. Rounding up highlights would be the prospect of availing third-party solutions through Google Cloud Marketplace. Supplying independent security software vendor solutions with Google Cloud Marketplace as the medium, Optiv allows for us to easily acquire and deploy optimal solutions, solutions that are meant to accommodate each user’s unique business needs, and at the same time, meet all regulatory requirements.
“Our partnership with Optiv combines the technology, people, and process necessary to make security as pervasive as possible and materially less complex. Our globally recognized cybersecurity offerings including Chronicle Security Operations powered by our advanced AI services, coupled with Optiv’s end-to-end expertise, from strategy to execution, enables clients to transform their businesses forward, safely,” said Sunil Potti, general manager and vice president of cloud security at Google Cloud.
Along with Google Cloud’s presence, making this partnership significant is Optiv’s own stature. You see, founded in 2015, the company has today reached a point where it delivers strategic and technical expertise to nearly 6,000 companies across every major industry. Boasting well over 2500 certifications, Optiv’s excellence can also be verified by looking at its partner line-up, which includes the likes of Microsoft, Cyberark, Crowdstrike, Okta, tenable, SailPoint, Palo Alto Networks, proofpoint, netskope, and many other heavyweights.