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Our Google SecOps Expertise

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.

Understanding 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.

It comprises two core components:

  • 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.

Crest Data's Expertise with Google SecOps

Crest Data offers extensive services and contributions to maximize the value of your Google SecOps implementation.

Google SecOps SIEM

Crest Data provides robust support for Google SecOps SIEM, covering data ingestion, parsing, rule creation, and overall platform enhancement:

Gold Parsers

 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.

Third-Party SIEM Integration

We create custom applications that cover all SIEM use cases, including data collection, parsing, rules, and dashboards. Crest Data provides scripts that allow users to ingest data from third-party sources through Google Cloud functions, enabling comprehensive search, reporting, and visualization workflows.

Google SecOps SOAR Contributions & Offerings

Playbook Creation & Delivery

We have delivered multiple playbooks for clients, supporting critical use cases such as:

  • Automated Threat Response

  • Threat Intelligence Enrichment

  • Incident Auto-resolution These playbooks enable the automation of incident response procedures based on predefined security policies.

Back Office Portal Development

We support the Google SecOps Command Line Interface (CLI) to manage operations, including feed, parser, and forwarder management.

User Interface (UI) Enhancement

Our contributions include enhancing accessibility (Keyboard, Screen Reader, Color Contrast), multi-language support (localization), improving test automation coverage for tools, assisting with dashboard bug fixes, and migrating frameworks for the Integration Test suite.

Content Packs

A bundling of Ingestion Mechanism, Parser, Product Specific Rules, UDM Searches, and Native Dashboards. Crest has built numerous content packs spanning the SecOps ecosystem.

API Migration

Our goal is to migrate legacy Google SecOps API endpoints to a new, unified API surface.

Integration Development

We have developed key integrations for Google SecOps SOAR which include actions, connectors, and jobs.

These integrations ingest threats and detections from various sources as alerts.

GCP Secret Migration

We've developed a tool to migrate secrets from Vaults like Hashicorp to GCP secret manager.

Native Dashboard Migration & ML Parsing

Crest Data can help with dashboard migration from Looker to YARA-L. Furthermore, we've contributed to Machine Learning (ML) Parsing by helping to train models to accurately label raw logs with UDM fields.

Comprehensive Google SecOps Professional Services

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.

 Professional Services

  • 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.

Full spectrum of professional services

Crest Data offers a full spectrum of professional services to ensure your Google SecOps implementation is successful and optimized:

    • Data Ingestion: Onboarding data from diverse sources to Google SecOps via Feeds, Chronicle Forwarder, Syslog, and REST APIs.

    • Parsing: Developing premium parsers with robust coverage and accurate UDM model mapping.

    • Custom Use Case Creation: Crafting detection rules and search queries in YaraL2, and designing visualizations in Looker/Native dashboards for security posture visibility.

    • Custom Playbook Creation: Developing and publishing playbooks using Power Ups, including custom actions that interact with other systems.

    • Connector & Jobs: Onboarding alerts/detections to Google SecOps SOAR from any source and orchestrating the ingestion of alerts.

    • Widgets: Creating visualizations to display enrichment details and contextual awareness within SOAR.

  • 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.

Why Choose Crest Data?

Global Expertise

Our team consists of certified GCP consultants with extensive experience in diverse environments.

Tailored Solutions

We design custom solutions specifically to meet your unique business needs and objectives.

Proven Success

We have a strong track record of successful implementations across various industries.

Our Experiences Define Our Identity

CASE STUDIES

  • Google Secops (Formerly Known as Google Chronicle) GOLD Parser

    Crest Data helped Google to adopt Chronicle GOLD parser to standardize data onboarding for all log sources and the parsing approaches for massive amounts of data.

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  • Google SecOps (Formerly Known as Google Chronicle) Ingestion Scripts

    The Google Chronicle Ingestion Scripts enable customers to ingest security telemetry data from various platforms/sources into the Chronicle.

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Ready to enhance your Google SecOps implementation?

Contact Crest Data today to learn more about our Google SecOps Professional Services and how we can help you achieve your SecOps goals.