Google adds Azure & AWS support, enhances Cloud security with AI integration

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Google Cloud Security, in an interaction. “With AI, we’re able to achieve simple translation of native language to query language, which will provide actionable information and summarize the information," he added.

According to Google, the AI-powered design will efficiently manage risks across multi-cloud infrastructures, amid increasing threats, such as data theft and ransomware attacks, to cloud security. The extensive support will simplify tasks for enterprises by combining teams responsible for security operations, and those operating native application protection platforms.

This will also help eliminate the silo model currently used by many enterprises, said Turner. Google also plans to integrate its threat intelligence solutions from multiple sources, including Mandiant, which was acquired in 2022, and provide a risk score, enabling enterprises to prioritise cyber threats to its systems, and initiate mitigating actions, he added.

This, he said, will take care of ‘alert fatigue’ that enterprises sometimes face in the wake of increasing cyber-attacks targetting vulnerabilities. The decision to provide integrated solutions stems from a shortage of security talent, even as threats and severity was on the rise, he added.

“We've recently received some research data that shows the talent gap within the security space has grown dramatically over the last five to six years, roughly from 1.5 million to as many as 3.5 million open jobs within the security industry." The integration of AI and Gen AI to its solutions could also help address the talent shortage, through training programmes for entry-level professionals across markets, including India, Turner said. The increasing threat landscape also presents a significant