At Google Cloud, we take our role in the financial ecosystem very seriously. We firmly believe that operational resilience is essential to driving and sustaining responsible innovation. Today, we mark a milestone in our ongoing commitment to the financial sector that’s directly relevant to our customers in the …

Startups are at the forefront of tackling some of the world’s most complex challenges, especially in cybersecurity, where new ideas and adaptability are always needed. These companies are embracing AI as a powerful tool, enabling them to scale their impact. Google believes that enabling the next generation of …

Being more proactive continues to be a leading goal for security organizations. As AI accelerates the pace of vulnerability discovery and exploitation, organizations will rely on the personalization of their security investments to help prioritize their defenses. To help you be more proactive by matching your real-world exposures with …

The automotive industry is at a pivotal crossroads as it hits the gas on adopting new technology. The era of the traditional connected vehicle has shifted into the age of the software-defined vehicle (SDV), notable for rapid innovation with many new capabilities delivered over the air. By integrating AI …

At Google Cloud, we are committed to providing public sector organizations around the globe with cloud technology that is highly flexible, scalable, and built with market-leading standards for data protection, sovereignty, and security. We understand that for public sector organizations in the European Union, confidence in data protection is …

Security leaders are now expected to protect business growth and clearly articulate security value to their board of directors, in addition to managing risk. While translating technical defense into measurable financial returns can be challenging, Mandiant Consulting can help you bridge the gap. Organizations that engaged with Mandiant Consulting …

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we’re discussing how we use AI to chart a path to autonomous software development lifecycle security. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re …

As enterprises scale autonomous AI agents into production, enabling safe innovation requires robust architectural guardrails. AI agents connect across tools and datasets, so it’s essential to establish clear network-level boundaries for comprehensive data protection. To help organizations confidently deploy these workflows, we recommend VPC Service Controls (VPC-SC) to …

Protecting sensitive data used with AI is a critical part of our commitment to providing advanced and secure cloud infrastructure. Confidential Computing cryptographically protects data in use in hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) with verifiable data integrity. We are thrilled to share our latest Confidential Computing innovations across our …

The European Commission’s Tech Sovereignty Package comes at a defining moment for the continent's digital future. European competitiveness and security are top of the agenda for European business, institutions, and citizens, and a significant investment in European digital capacity is needed to deliver those goals. In that context …

The United Kingdom, and London in particular, continues to be one of the great hubs for AI development in Europe and the world. We’re home to Google DeepMind, of course, as well as significant AI unicorns — and Google Cloud customers — like Ineffable Intelligence, which is today announcing an …

Security operations teams are under immense pressure to defend against adversaries who use AI to act with unprecedented speed, scale, and sophistication. To navigate these moments, secure mission-critical workloads, and build confident defense programs, organizations rely on modern security information and event management (SIEM) systems as the backbone of …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we introduce Chris Betz as the new CISO of Google Cloud. For his first Cloud CISO Perspectives, Chris shares four key lessons we learned about using AI to the defender’s advantage while building AI Threat Defense. As …

At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing the most advanced, secure, and private infrastructure for the most demanding AI workloads, and partnering with a broad and diverse range of organizations to help them meet their AI workload needs. We are thrilled to collaborate with Apple on its expanded …

To defend against the growing range of AI-accelerated threat actors, organizations need to be able to respond faster to outpace the adversary. Recently, we announced Google AI Threat Defense, an automated security system designed to help you continuously monitor for and stop AI-powered threats before they can impact your …

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2026. Today, Usman Chaudhary, Field CISO, Google Public Sector, offers a guide for CISOs protecting government agencies and critical infrastructure on how to get started — and get the most out of — defending with AI. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives …

aside_block ), ('btn_text', ''), ('href', ''), ('image', None)])]> AI-powered cyber threats have been receiving a lot of attention lately. AI has changed the threat landscape ; cybercriminals are using it to find security cracks faster than cybersecurity teams can manually fix them. Attacks that used to take weeks to carry out can now …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2026. Today, Vinod D’Souza, director, Office of the CISO, shares highlights from his RSA Conference fireside chat with Anthony Belfiore, chief strategy officer, Wiz. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the …

In the healthcare and life sciences industries, speed saves lives, but meeting regulatory requirements and other administrative burdens often pumps the brakes for manufacturers of software as a medical device (SaMD). These devices include AI image analysis for cancer detection, diagnostic mobile apps for viewing MRIs, and software that …

As AI coding agents become deeply embedded in developer workflows, defenders must evolve their definition of malicious files and rethink how to protect against them. Autonomous AI agents operate across integrated development environments (IDEs), editors, terminals, and extension runtimes, and they often have access to local files, command execution …

At Google, we see firsthand how cyber threats can outpace traditional defense mechanisms — and how agentic threat intelligence can help bridge the gap. We have a vision for agentic defense where autonomous AI agents, powered by Gemini and fed by our unmatched threat visibility, can reason through complex malware …

The AI era demands a fundamental shift in security, and that includes identity and access management (IAM). Traditional controls simply aren’t built for autonomous AI agents that interact with sensitive data at machine speed, a reality we address with our new IAM advancements for the agentic enterprise era …

Managing agents and their actions can quickly grow in complexity and introduce security risks unique to AI. To address these challenges, at Google Cloud Next we announced Agent Gateway to provide simple, secure, and governed connectivity across all user-to-agent, agent-to-agent, and agent-to-tools interactions. As part of Gemini Enterprise Agent …

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2026. Today, Francis deSouza, COO Google Cloud and President, Security Products, explains why Google is multicloud and multi-AI, straight from Next ‘26. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog …

Security teams are frequently burdened with manually stitching together telemetry, alerts, and response playbooks. This fragmentation can limit visibility, increase alert fatigue, and slow down investigations. Defending the modern enterprise requires tools that work together. Today at Google Cloud Next, we are thrilled to announce a robust cohort of …