Synqly Adds Google Network Security Integration for Cloud Traffic Visibility

Synqly’s Network Security Unified API now supports Google Network Security. Security vendors building on Synqly can connect directly to Google Cloud network traffic data and give their OEM customers visibility into traffic moving across Google Cloud environments, without asking an internal engineering team to stand up and babysit a custom log pipeline. For product and engineering teams already supporting customers across more than one cloud, this is one more provider they no longer have to build and maintain a connector for on their own.

What is Google Network Security?

Google Network Security is the traffic-monitoring capability built into Google Cloud, surfaced through VPC Flow Logs. Flow Logs on Google Cloud capture both accepted and denied traffic at the instance and subnet level, giving a security team a granular view of what is actually moving through a customer’s network rather than a summary after the fact. That instance-level and subnet-level detail is what turns a network security signal into something a detection engine can act on.

Teams running workloads on Google Cloud rely on this data to catch lateral movement between instances, spot early signs of data exfiltration, and flag network paths that were misconfigured somewhere along the way.

For more background on the platform itself, visit Google Cloud.

What OEM Customers Can Do with the Google Network Security Integration

With the integration live, OEM customers building on Synqly can query traffic events and pull traffic log configurations from a customer’s Google Cloud environment through one consistent API, rather than writing a separate connector for Google Cloud’s particular logging format. The connector exposes two capabilities:

That consistency is the point. A product team should not have to write and maintain a new parser every time a customer happens to run on a different cloud. Taken together, these two capabilities give security products what they need to build detections for lateral movement, exfiltration, and misconfigured network paths across Google Cloud infrastructure, without requiring an engineering team to first reverse-engineer how Google structures its own logs.

Full configuration and setup instructions live in the Google Network Security Configuration Guide on the Synqly documentation site.

How This Fits Synqly’s Existing Google Coverage

This integration extends Google’s presence inside the Synqly ecosystem rather than introducing Google for the first time. Synqly customers already connect to Google through SIEM, by way of Google Security Operations, and identity, through Google Workspace. This Google network security integration adds a third category of Google coverage. Each integration stands on its own, so the pages above cover their respective use cases in full.

How the Network Security Unified API Works

This Google network security integration is part of Synqly’s Network Security Unified API, built around a straightforward reality. Most OEM security vendors serve customers who run workloads across more than one cloud, and building a separate integration for each provider is slow to ship and expensive to keep current as each platform evolves its own logging formats.

Instead of standing up and maintaining separate connections to Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure in house, product teams integrate with Synqly once and pick up new providers, including this Google network security integration, as Synqly adds them. For a team deciding where engineering time is best spent, that tends to be the deciding factor: less time maintaining cloud-specific plumbing, and more time on the detection and response work that actually sets a security product apart.

Where to Find More Details

Full details on the Google network security integration, including supported capabilities and schema mappings, live on the Google Network Security integration partner page. For hands-on setup, the Google Network Security Configuration Guide walks through provider configuration from start to finish. A full list of every live integration is maintained on the Synqly integrations page.