Building a Modern Security Operations Program for a Cloud-Native Analytics Platform with Google SecOps

About the Customer

A global digital marketing analytics and performance optimization firm serving large enterprises across banking, insurance, retail, and technology sectors. Operating extensive data pipelines, cloud platforms, and customer-integrated applications, the company must ensure continuous protection of sensitive data while maintaining high availability and real-time analytics capabilities.

As the organization expanded its cybersecurity maturity initiatives, it needed a modern, scalable, intelligence-driven security operations platform to replace its aging on-premise SIEM.

The Challenge: Legacy SIEM Limitations Impacting Security Performance

The company’s internal SOC was operating on top of a legacy, on-premise SIEM solution. Over time, this environment created multiple operational bottlenecks:

• Fragmented monitoring and lack of centralized visibility across multi-cloud, SaaS, and custom applications
• High operational overhead from infrastructure maintenance, upgrades, and scaling
• Limited threat intelligence, reducing the ability to detect emerging attack patterns
• Integration challenges leading to a backlog of unconnected log sources and delayed onboarding
• Performance degradation as data volumes increased
• High false positives, causing analyst fatigue and missed critical alerts
• Lack of built-in SOAR automation, resulting in slow, manual response processes

Faced with these barriers, leadership initiated an evaluation of next-generation SIEM platforms that could deliver cloud-scale analytics, rapid deployment, and modern detection capabilities.

Why Google SecOps Was the Right Fit

After a structured assessment, Google SecOps emerged as the preferred choice due to its:

• Cloud-native architecture, eliminating infrastructure and storage limitations
• Ability to ingest and analyze high-volume security telemetry at speed
• Integrated SOAR capabilities to automate enrichment, triage, and response
• Google Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence (GCTI) and Mandiant curated detections, tuned to real-world threats
• Flexible deployment and simplified operational model

Google SecOps provided a scalable foundation designed for modern, distributed technology environments — ideal for a company handling real-time digital analytics workloads.

The Scybers Solution: Google SecOps Deployment + End-to-End Modernization

Scybers led the complete transformation of the organization’s security operations:

1. Platform Selection & Architectural Redesign

• Assessed existing SIEM pain points and mapped future requirements
• Designed the SecOps architecture based on Chronicle SIEM and SOAR
• Established onboarding priorities across cloud, SaaS, network, and application components

2. Rapid Deployment and Integration

Scybers deployed Google SecOps and onboarded 20+ log sources, including:

• Multi-cloud infrastructure logs
• SaaS platforms and third-party services
• Identity and access management systems
• Custom-built applications
• Security tools and perimeter logs

3. Use Case Engineering

Scybers implemented 100+ tailored use cases to match the client’s environment, including detections for:

• Suspicious API behavior
• Lateral movement attempts
• Anomalous privileged actions
• Brute force and identity compromise attempts
• Data exfiltration patterns
• Application misuse and fraud indicators

4. Operational Integration

• Built API-driven workflows for automated triage and enrichment
• Created compliance-aligned incident playbooks
• Established governance and weekly tuning reviews with SOC leadership

The Results: Immediate Value, Stronger Security, Lower Cost

Following deployment, the organization saw significant improvements:

• Enhanced detection accuracy, dramatically reducing false positives
• Unified, centralized visibility across previously siloed environments
• Faster investigations, powered by correlated timelines and automated SOAR workflows
• Significant cost reduction, eliminating on-premise infrastructure, licensing overhead, and maintenance costs
• Improved SOC efficiency, enabling analysts to focus on real threats rather than tool maintenance
• Strengthened compliance posture, with audit-ready logs, workflows, and evidence trails

The security modernization not only improved operational efficiency but also elevated trust with enterprise clients.

Customer Testimonial

“Google Chronicle SecOps integration with our existing infrastructure was seamless, providing immediate value and enhanced security. It also helped us maintain our compliance posture effectively.”
— Head of Information Security & IT

About Scybers Managed Security Services

Scybers specializes in Google-first security operations, offering:

• Google SecOps deployment and tuning
• 24/7 monitoring and incident response
• Threat hunting and detection engineering
• Compliance-focused reporting
• Executive-level guidance via cyber risk advisors

Enhanced by Scyra

To maximize the value of Google SecOps, Scybers uses Scyra, an agentic service layer that:

• Automates investigations and evidence gathering
• Standardizes incident workflows for consistent quality
• Reduces onboarding and tuning time
• Improves analyst productivity

With Google SecOps Delivery Partner Expert status and deep enterprise experience, Scybers enables organizations to transform legacy SOC environments into scalable, intelligent, cloud-native security operations.

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