As organizations adopt autonomous agents to build applications, securing identities and access has become more challenging. Developers relying on agents to provision cloud resources, write Terraform, and deploy microservices at machine-speed only find their CI/CD pipelines blo cked even faster as security friction scales. To help you get …

As organizations adopt autonomous agents to build applications, securing identities and access has become more challenging. Developers relying on agents to provision cloud resources, write Terraform, and deploy microservices at machine-speed only find their CI/CD pipelines blo cked even faster as security friction scales. To help you get …

Blog authors: Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, Distinguished Engineer; Stella Voutsina, Sr. Technical Program Manager; Parthasarathy Ranganathan, VP, Engineering Fellow AI is accelerating software development at an unprecedented pace. But as code generation scales, so do the challenges of securing the code, especially emerging AI-based vulnerability exploitations. To meet these challenges, the …

AI is accelerating software development at an unprecedented pace. But as code generation scales, so do the challenges of securing the code, especially emerging AI-based vulnerability exploitations. To meet these challenges, the Google AI and Infrastructure team is transforming how we approach security. In this article, we discuss new …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Sandra Joyce shares the latest details on Google’s visibility into how attackers are using AI, and how we’re using AI to stop them. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted …

AI models have clearly proven their ability to discover and exploit vulnerabilities without much, if any, human assistance. To help defenders gain the advantage with AI, we built the Mantis harness to automate the discovery, triage, reproduction, and patching of software vulnerabilities. Available to all as an open-source framework …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever to lean into security fundamentals. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you …

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 …