Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Chris Betz, CISO, Google Cloud, and Alicja Cade, Senior Director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud, explain what boards of directors need to know about AI security and how to prepare their organizations for security governance and business …

As Best Buy expanded its use of Google Cloud for advanced analytics and AI, its technology teams faced two significant scaling challenges: Mitigating risk and managing administrative friction when syncing thousands of backend users from Microsoft Entra ID. The retailer solved both problems and paved the way for a …

As adversarial AI threats accelerate attacks on code, security teams must counter them with machine-speed defenses that can automate code remediation and fight AI with AI. CodeMender is our managed code security agent, and starting today, we're bringing its code scanning and remediation capabilities directly to you in preview …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Francis deSouza, COO, Google Cloud and President, Security Products, explains the crucial role that deep context plays in creating an AI advantage for defenders. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to …

How should your security team manage shadow AI? Workloads deployed by developers without formal registration can often evade traditional security scanners, because organizations are reluctant to slow down development and compromise stability by demanding privileged Daemonsets, kernel-level access, and manual pod-spec edits. To break this deadlock, today we are …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

aside_block ), ('btn_text', ''), ('href', ''), ('image', None)])]> The AI era demands a new security era. Organizations are facing the dual challenge of harnessing the potential of AI while defending against its malicious use, and Google Cloud can help you adapt and thrive. The latest research from Google Cloud shows that adversaries …

The rapid evolution of AI is redefining industries, while also exposing organizations to new risks. At Google Cloud, we believe that modern cloud defense should have AI protection built in and accessible by default, delivering native guardrails and controls that are essential to ensuring that security strengthens your AI …

Enterprises are rapidly moving AI workloads from experimentation to production on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), using its scalability to serve powerful inference endpoints. However, as these models handle increasingly sensitive data, they introduce unique AI-driven attack vectors — from prompt injection to sensitive data leakage — that traditional firewalls aren't designed …

As ​​developers build AI agents with more sophisticated reasoning systems, they require higher-quality fuel–in the form of enterprise data and specialized tools–to drive real business value. To get the most out of that octane-rich mix, we offer Google-managed model context protocol (MCP) servers: an engine purpose-built for …

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 …