Four Layers of Preventive Security
Effective prevention requires controls at every layer. Guardrails orchestrates all four for Google Cloud:
Build
Block non-compliant infrastructure before deployment with Deployment Manager validation. Validate templates and reject resources that don't meet your standards.
Access
Organization Policy constraints block operations at the folder and organization level. Restrict regions, deny services, enforce boundaries across projects.
Config
Project and service-level settings that prevent misconfigurations by default. Uniform bucket-level access, VPC Service Controls, encryption settings.
Runtime
Continuously monitor and instantly fix misconfigurations that slip through. Auto-remediation runs 24/7 without manual intervention.
Preventive Security capabilities for Google Cloud:
Visualize Preventive Posture
See what your Organization Policies and folder-level controls actually do across all projects. Guardrails translates complex policy constraints into plain language and shows inheritance, exceptions, and coverage gaps.
Search for any policy and see which projects it protects. View the resource hierarchy with policy attachments at a glance.
Benchmark Your Preventive Posture
Understand where prevention gaps exist and which controls would have the biggest impact. Guardrails shows which security objectives lack coverage and recommends the best preventive controls to deploy.
Prioritize by risk reduction potential. See exactly which alerts each control would prevent.
Prevention for Runtime
Continuously monitor and instantly fix misconfigurations that slip through preventive controls. Automated remediation runs 24/7 across all projects without manual intervention.
From public Cloud Storage buckets to overly permissive firewall rules - runtime prevention catches and fixes drift as it happens.
Simulate Before You Deploy
Test new Organization Policies and preventive controls against your actual environment before deployment. See exactly which resources would be affected and which operations would be blocked.
No surprises. No broken deployments. Validate controls in a safe simulation mode first.
Rollout & Expand
Deploy preventive controls progressively across your organization. Start with non-production projects, validate behavior, then expand to production with confidence.
Communicate changes to stakeholders, track rollout progress, and ensure consistent policy enforcement across all projects.
Preventive Security for your cloud platforms:
