The global conversation about our digital future goes beyond technology; it’s about architecting a prosperous, secure, and resilient economy where the digital services we rely on every day — from banking to healthcare to public administration — are built on a foundation of trust and operate according to local regulations …

Organizations that handle sensitive data in highly-regulated sectors often face a difficult choice: Build and manage physical hardware to meet strict compliance needs, or use cloud services that might not offer the specific level of isolation they require. These organizations, often in financial services, defense, healthcare, insurance, and government …

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for January 2026. Today, Taylor Lehmann, director of healthcare and life sciences, Office of the CISO, offers his insights after decades of experience on what CISOs should prioritize this year. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for January 2026. Today, Tom Curry and Anton Chuvakin, from Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO, share our new report on using Google’s Secure AI Framework with Google Cloud capabilities and services to build boldly and responsibly with AI. As …

Ever since Carl Benz patented what is widely considered the first practical automobile and Henry Ford’s industrial techniques drove production scalability, consumer behavior and evolving preferences have driven improvements in performance, safety, and reliability. We are now at a phase of automotive development where continued automobile featurization — digital …

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2025. Today, Google Cloud’s Nick Godfrey, senior director, and Anton Chuvakin, security advisor, look back at the year that was. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If …

Your security program is robust. Your audits are clean. But are you ready for a real-world attack? A tenacious human adversary can create a critical blind spot for security leaders: A program can be compliant, but not resilient. Bridging this gap requires more than just going through the red-teaming …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2025. Today, Francis deSouza, COO and president, Security Products, Google Cloud, shares our Cybersecurity Forecast report for the coming year, with additional insights from our Office of the CISO colleagues. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this …

Today’s organizations highly value their ability to choose the security tools they want to use, driving the reality that the security landscape should be interoperable. At Google Cloud, we believe in meeting customers where they are — including the partners they want to work with. We are thrilled to …

At Google Cloud, we sit at a unique intersection of two transformative technologies: AI and Web3. The rise of AI agents capable of interacting with blockchains opens up a world of automated financial strategies, fast payments, and more complex scenarios like executing complex DeFi operations and bridging assets across …

Earlier today, Meta and Vercel publicly disclosed two vulnerabilities that expose services built using the popular open-source frameworks React Server Components ( CVE-2025-55182 ) and Next.js to remote code execution risks when used for some server-side use cases. At Google Cloud, we understand the severity of these vulnerabilities, and our …

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2025. Today, Phil Venables, Google Cloud’s current strategic security advisor and former CISO, and creator of this newsletter, shares his thoughts on how the role of the CISO is evolving in the AI era, and how organizations should shift …

At Google Cloud, we take our role in the financial ecosystem in Europe very seriously. We also firmly believe that digital operational resilience is vital to safeguarding and enhancing innovation. Today, we mark a significant milestone in our long-term commitment to the European financial services sector. The European Supervisory …

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 …