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🔐 Are Your Google Cloud Resources Really Secure?

Moving to the cloud is easy. Securing it properly? That’s where things get interesting.

In Google Cloud, security is not just about firewalls and IAM. You need visibility, continuous monitoring, and actionable insights. That’s where Security Command Center (SCC) and Web Security Scanner come in.

They work together to protect both your infrastructure and your applications — but they do different jobs.

Let’s break it down.

🛡️ Security Command Center (SCC): Your Cloud Security Control Room

Security Command Center (SCC) is Google Cloud’s centralized security and risk management platform.

Think of SCC as your cloud security operations center:

✔️ Discovers and inventories your cloud resources
✔️ Detects misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and threats
✔️ Monitors IAM risks, exposed storage, and policy violations
✔️ Shows everything in a single dashboard for triage and response

SCC continuously scans your projects, folders, and organization and brings all findings into one place.

Service Tiers

SCC comes in different tiers:

• Standard – Basic posture and misconfiguration detection
• Premium / Enterprise – Advanced threat detection, compliance, and multi-cloud support

👉 SCC focuses on infrastructure-level and configuration security, not deep application code scanning.

🔍 Web Security Scanner: Securing Your Applications

While SCC protects your cloud environment, your web applications need their own protection layer.

That’s where Web Security Scanner comes in.

Web Security Scanner is a fully managed service that:

✔️ Crawls your web apps.
✔️ Scans pages, links, and forms.
✔️ Detects common vulnerabilities like:
• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
• Mixed HTTP/HTTPS content.
• Insecure redirects.
• Outdated libraries

It works with apps hosted on:

• App Engine
• Compute Engine
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

📌 Important: Web Security Scanner is integrated into Security Command Center, and its findings appear inside the SCC dashboard.

Feature	Security Command Center	Web Security Scanner
Cloud resource inventory	✅	❌
Misconfiguration & IAM risk detection	✅	❌
Threat & compliance monitoring	✅	❌
Web app vulnerability scanning	❌ (directly)	✅
XSS, mixed content, redirect issues	❌	✅