At Google Cloud, we believe that being at the forefront of driving secure innovation and meeting the evolving needs of customers includes working with partners. The reality is that the security landscape should be interoperable, and your security tools should be able to integrate with each other. Google Unified …

When a major vulnerability makes headlines, CISOs want to know fast if their organization is impacted and prepared. Getting the correct answer is often a time-consuming and human-intensive process that can take days or weeks, leaving open a dangerous window of unknown exposure. To help close that gap, today …

India’s developer community, vibrant startup ecosystem, and leading enterprises are embracing AI with incredible speed. To meet this moment for India, we are investing in powerful, locally-available tools in India that can help foster a diverse ecosystem, and ensure our platform delivers the controls you need for compliance …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2025. Today, Sandra Joyce, vice-president, Google Threat Intelligence, updates us on the state of the adversarial misuse of AI. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re …

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2025. Today, Jeanette Manfra, senior director, Global Risk and Compliance, shares her thoughts on the role of AI in risk management. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If …

Google has been working on making computing quantum safe for almost a decade. We’ve been rolling out post-quantum cryptography in our infrastructure for internal and customer services, and now we’re at the level where you can get hands-on — and we’re here to help. We’ve developed …

The emergence of the agentic web — an internet where autonomous AI agents can independently execute complex, multi-step tasks and transactions that previously required human interaction — promises a fundamental shift for how customers and businesses interact. While agents can help deliver a frictionless customer experience, they can also enable new …

Every development team wants to build robust, secure, and scalable cloud applications, and that often means navigating complexity — especially when it comes to configuration management. Relying on hard-coded configurations and keys is a common practice that can expose sensitive security details. To move faster and stay secure, developers should …

As AI continues to rapidly develop, it’s crucial that IT teams address the business and organizational risks posed by two common threats: prompt injection and jailbreaking. Earlier this year we introduced Model Armor, a model-agnostic advanced screening solution that can help safeguard gen AI prompts and responses, and …

In today's complex threat landscape, effectively managing network security is crucial — especially across diverse environments. Organizations are looking to advanced capabilities to strengthen security, enhance threat protection, and simplify network security operations for hybrid and multicloud deployments. We’re excited to announce new capabilities in Cloud Armor, featuring more …

For too long, network data analysis has felt less like a science and more like deciphering cryptic clues. To help close that gap, we’re introducing a new Mandiant Academy course from Google Cloud, designed to replace frustration with clarity and confidence. Protecting the Perimeter: Practical Network Enrichment focuses …

The evolving security landscape demands more than just speed. It requires an intelligent, automated defense. Google Security Operations is an AI-powered platform built to deliver a modern agentic security operations center (SOC), where generative AI is woven into the fabric of your operations. We go beyond traditional SIEM and …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2025. Today, Kristina Behr, VP, Workspace Product Management, and Jorge Blanco, director, Office of the CISO, explain how a new AI-driven capability in Google Drive can help security and business leaders protect their data and minimize the impact of ransomware …

At Google, protecting your data is our most important responsibility, and we are committed to keeping your data safe. To further this commitment, we are proud to announce that starting in November 2025, we will start transitioning our approach to media sanitization to fully rely on a robust and …

Protecting your organization from cyber threats is essential for ensuring smooth operations and meeting compliance requirements. Specialized defense has become more urgent as sensitive data and critical applications have migrated to the cloud. Security is no longer about perimeter firewalls; it’s about securing dynamic cloud networks. Recognizing the …

Understanding malware functionality and analysis processes can be a thorny ball of string. To help IT and information security professionals, corporate investigators, and anyone else get started in pursuing malware analysis as a primary specialty, Mandiant Academy’s new "Basic Static and Dynamic Analysis" course can help enhance your …

Quantum computing presents a new frontier for technology, and a new set of security challenges, too. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could break the public-key cryptography systems we rely on today, posing a significant risk to individuals and organizations. Although that threat might be years away, building appropriate defenses …

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2025. Today, Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza offers his insights on how boards of directors and CISOs can thrive with a good working relationship, adapted from a recent episode of the Cyber Savvy Boardroom podcast. As with all Cloud CISO …

As cloud infrastructure evolves, so should how you safeguard that technology. As part of our efforts to help you maintain a strong security posture, we’ve introduced powerful capabilities that can address some of the thorniest challenges faced by IT teams who work with Google Compute Engine (GCE) virtual …

Organizations today face immense pressure to secure their digital assets against increasingly sophisticated threats — without overwhelming their teams or budgets. Using managed security service providers (MSSPs) to implement and optimize new technology, and handle security operations, is a strategic delegation that can make internal security operations staff more efficient …

As enterprises increasingly adopt model context protocol (MCP) to extend capabilities of AI models to better integrate with external tools, databases, and APIs, it becomes even more important to ensure secure MCP deployment. MCP unlocks new capabilities for AI systems; it can also introduce new risks, such as tool …

The Domain Name System (DNS) is like the internet’s phone book, automatically and near-instantly translating requests for websites and mobile apps from their domain names to the Internet Protocol addresses of the actual computers hosting them. As part of the bedrock of the internet, DNS and domain name …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2025. Today, Daryl Pereira and Hui Meng Foo, from our Office of the CISO’s Asia-Pacific office, share insights on AI from security leaders who attended our recent Google Cloud CISO Community event in Singapore. As with all Cloud CISO …

Security leaders are clear about their priorities: After AI, cloud security is the top training topic for decision-makers. As threats against cloud workloads become more sophisticated, organizations are looking for highly-skilled professionals to help defend against these attacks. To help organizations meet their need for experts who can manage …

At Google Cloud, our services are built with interoperability and openness in mind to enable customer choice and multicloud strategies. W e pioneered a multicloud data warehouse, enabling workloads to run across clouds. We were the first company to provide digital sovereignty solutions for European governments and to waive …