Enterprise-grade security solutions with robust, scalable, seamless integrations
Enterprise-grade security solutions with robust, scalable, seamless integrations
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Crest Data’s comprehensive suite of technical services positions us as an ideal partner in navigating the complexities of today’s digital landscape. We leverage our deep expertise to help organizations achieve their security use cases efficiently and scalably with Google SecOps.
Google SecOps is a unified platform designed to collect data from various security platforms, enabling users to write detection rules for malicious activities, generate alerts, and monitor threats in real-time to take action.
Primarily focused on detection, it collects logs from diverse data sources and identifies anomalies by specified criteria. For example, a SIEM can detect a brute force attack by identifying multiple failed login attempts within a short period.
Dedicated to action and resolution, a SOAR platform determines how to react to detected anomalies, often automating these responses through workflows. A Security Operations Center (SOC) team might use SOAR to block an IP address or close an alert based on whether a detection is a true or false positive.
Google SecOps SIEM was recognized as a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM.
Google SecOps is a unified platform designed to collect data from various security platforms, enabling users to write detection rules for malicious activities, generate alerts, and monitor threats in real-time to take action.
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) looking to integrate their products with Google SecOps often face a unique set of challenges, primarily related to data handling, technical requirements, and the partner ecosystem itself.
A core challenge is managing the vast and varied data sources that need to be fed into Google SecOps. Google's platform, particularly its SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) capabilities, relies on ingesting data from a wide range of sources—on-premise firewalls, cloud functions, endpoint security tools, and more.
Diverse Data Formats: ISVs must contend with logs and telemetry that come in different formats, each with its own schema and structure.
Data Quality and Consistency: Ensuring the data is clean, consistent, and correctly formatted before ingestion is critical. Misconfigured sensors or fragmented data can lead to detection gaps and "noise," reducing the effectiveness of the security tools.
The Unified Data Model (UDM): Google SecOps uses a UDM to normalize disparate log formats into a common schema. While this is a powerful feature, ISVs are responsible for ensuring their data can be properly mapped and transformed to fit this model. This process requires significant engineering effort to build custom parsers and ensure data integrity.
Integrating with a cloud-native platform like Google SecOps brings its own technical complexities.
API and Action Limitations: ISVs need to build connectors that interact with Google SecOps APIs. They may encounter limitations, such as timeouts for actions, which can impact the efficiency of data synchronization or playbook execution.
Performance at Scale: Integrating with a SIEM designed for "Google-scale" data volumes requires the ISV's solution to be highly performant and scalable. It must be able to handle massive amounts of security telemetry without degrading performance for the end-user.
Cloud-Native Architecture: ISVs must be comfortable with cloud-native architectures, including containers and microservices, to build modern, efficient integrations that align with Google's SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) best practices.
We convert raw log data into the structured Google SecOps UDM format. Crest Data has developed a broad series of Gold Parsers currently in use by hundreds of customers.
Providing seamless migration from other SecOps, SIEM, or SOAR platforms to Google SecOps, ensuring data continuity and minimal disruption. We also specialize in efficient data onboarding from various sources
Offering expert assistance with initial setup and configuration of Google SecOps from scratch, developing custom integrations, and designing tailored dashboards using Looker/Native Dashboards.
Setting up actionable alerts to reduce noise and prioritize critical issues, alongside regular audits and dashboard optimization for meaningful insights.
Designing and implementing custom dashboards and reports, developing scripts and automation tools linked to Google Cloud Platform to streamline operations, and providing comprehensive training and enablement resources for your team.
Delivering tailored security configurations to protect your environment and continuous monitoring for security threats and vulnerabilities.
Drawing from the experience of 5000+ integrations to advance agentic security use case automation . Our MCP and A2A implementations evolve with emerging AI capabilities while maintaining backward compatibility, protecting your investment as the AI landscape evolves
Conducting regular health checks to ensure optimal performance, providing proactive monitoring and issue resolution to minimize downtime, and offering expert technical support for any Google SecOps-related issues.
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Colwin is a technology leader with deep expertise in Cloud and DevOps. He brings over 15 years of work experience across technology stacks.
Before joining Crest Data, Colwin was a co-Founder and held the office of the CTO at Opcito Technologies.
At Opcito Colwin led the engineering team and helped them deliver cloud scale bespoke DevOps solutions primarily leveraging Kubernetes and Containers.
Under his leadership Opcito was listed as one of India’s best places to work by GTPW. Colwin holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Goa University and several certifications around Kubernetes and Amazon’s AWS Cloud.
Vance leads the Business Development and Security Ecosystem at Crest Data Systems. He brings over 20 years of experience in creating technology solutions in the security industry.
Prior to joining Crest Data Systems, Vance was a product manager at Armis where he was responsible for technical alliances and integrations.
Before Armis, Vance was the product manager at Nozomi Networks responsible for protocols, integrations, and hardware. Vance holds a Bachelors degree in Physics and a Masters degree in Computer Science
Kushal Shah leads the IT Operations and Cybersecurity at Crest Data Systems. He brings over 15 years of leadership experience in building robust IT Infrastructure On-premise and Cloud, Tech refresh, Management of Enterprise devices, Managed IT Services, Compliances such as ISO 27001 and SOC2, Budgeting, and Capacity planning.
As the Director of IT, he plays a crucial role in ensuring the organization’s technological infrastructure is efficient, secure, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.
Prior to joining Crest Data Systems, Kushal worked with two of the Fortune 500 organizations such as ADP and Accenture. Kushal holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication
Devanshi Raichura is a seasoned Human Resources professional with over 12 years of comprehensive experience across various industries. As the Director of HR at Crest Data Systems, she leads the HR and Administration operations.
Before Crest, she held leadership positions focused on People Support and acted as a Culture Champion, where she played a pivotal role in spearheading cultural initiatives and enhancing employee engagement and experiences.
She holds an MBA graduate from Nirma University and has furthered her expertise with an Executive Education Program Certificate in International Operations Development from IIM-A, alongside being a Certified Storyteller.
Nirav Thakkar brings over 22 years of leadership experience in Finance. As the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Crest Data Systems, Nirav is responsible for overseeing and directing all financial operations for both domestic and international business units.
He holds an M.Com, C.A, Diploma in Foreign Exchange Risk Management, and is a D&B Certified IFRS Professional.
Prior to Crest, Nirav has held leadership roles across multiple organizations, leading functions such as domestic and international finance & taxation, legal and commercial, procurement, project delivery and revenue assurance. He has demonstrated success in building and growing businesses, such as a tech startup in video analytics.
Neha is a technology leader in product innovation and operational excellence. She brings over 20 years of international work experience in Networking, Security, and Data Analytics.
Prior to co-founding Crest Data Systems, Neha led the engineering operations team for Qmetry product-line.
Prior to Qmetry, she held several engineering leadership positions at Cisco where she was responsible for delivering large cross-functional projects in Layer 2/3 switching, security, and telemetry/analytics that were responsible for bringing multi-billion-dollar revenue for Cisco’s Catalyst series Enterprise Switches.
Neha holds a bachelor’s engineering degree in Computer Engineering from Gujarat University and a Master’s degree in Computer Networking from North Carolina State University.
She has received several engineering awards including Cisco’s Pioneer award and holds a patent in networking security.
Malhar brings over 20 years of leadership experience in Enterprise Technology. As a co-founder and CEO of Crest Data Systems, he is leading the strategy and its evolution as a leading Enterprise solutions provider in Data Analytics, Security, DevOps and Cloud.
Prior to founding Crest, Malhar held leadership roles in product management at Cisco’s Insieme Business Unit (acquired by Cisco in 2013) and Nuova Business Unit (acquired by Cisco in 2008) where he led the growth of Cisco’s Data Center Switching business from inception to an annualized revenue of over $1.5B.
Prior to this, he held various engineering and product management positions at Force10 and at Cisco’s flagship Catalyst 6500 product-line.
Malhar holds a bachelor’s engineering degree in Civil Engineering from Gujarat University and a Master’s degree in Computer Networking from North Carolina State University.