On Tuesday, Google unveiled its latest cybersecurity-focused product,, Google Threat Intelligence. This new offering, part of the Google Cloud Security portfolio, aims to help cybersecurity professionals better understand global threats.
Leveraging the capabilities of Google’s AI model Gemini and insights from Mandiant and VirusTotal, two security-focused subsidiaries, the platform promises to provide valuable insights into threat intelligence.
Introduced at the RCA conference in San Francisco, Google described Threat Intelligence as incorporating Gemini, their AI-powered agent, which enables conversational search across a vast repository of threat intelligence. This, Google claims, allows customers to gain insights and protect themselves from threats more efficiently.
Google emphasized that threat visibility is a major concern for cybersecurity professionals, requiring both a comprehensive view of the landscape and significant time to collect and process data into actionable insights.
Google Threat Intelligence is a collaborative effort leveraging Google’s extensive threat intelligence, which includes protecting billions of devices and email accounts from millions of phishing attempts daily. The product also benefits from the insights of Mandiant, known for incident response expertise, and VirusTotal, with its crowdsourced malware database.
The platform will also benefit from Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro AI model, which acts as a conversational chatbot, assisting in curating data and insights from the platform’s database.
According to Google, this enables customers to condense large data sets in seconds, quickly analyze suspicious files, and simplify manual threat intelligence tasks. The AI can even reverse engineer malware, as demonstrated by its ability to process the entire decompiled code of the WannaCry malware file and identify a killswitch in just 34 seconds.
Google Threat Intelligence is part of the Google Cloud Security portfolio, which includes offerings like Google Security Operations, Mandiant Consulting, Security Command Center Enterprise, and Chrome Enterprise. Organizations interested in adopting the platform can contact Google for further information.
