GCP – Boosting defenders with AI: What’s coming at Security Summit 2025

While AI can help empower defenders, it can also create new security challenges. Those two critical, interconnected themes are driving our announcements and presentations for this year’s Google Cloud Security Summit.

Join us live for Security Summit 2025 on August 19 to learn about the latest advancements in AI-powered security to strengthen your defenses and protect your AI innovations in the cloud. This online event is free to attend and will feature expert-led sessions on how to make your security teams more effective with AI-powered tools and strategies, as well as best practices for securing the AI systems that are driving your business forward.

We’ve highlighted some of our most compelling sessions below, and you can register at no cost here.

Opening keynote

What’s next in AI security: Empowering defenders and securing innovation
Join Jon Ramsey, vice president and general manager, Google Cloud Security, Payal Chakravarty, director, product management for Google Security Operations, and Naveed Makhani, product lead for Securing AI, as they discuss how AI is revolutionizing security. Learn about Google’s approach to empowering defenders with AI, how to manage AI risks, and our strategy for securing your AI innovations in the cloud. Discover how the latest AI capabilities can be a force multiplier for your security teams.

Track 1: Empowering defenders with AI

Empower your SOC with agentic AI in Google Security Operations
In this session, Vijay Ganti and Timothy Peacock will demo Google Cloud AI security agents for alert triage, investigation, and malware analysis. Learn how to build your own workflows, use the SecOps Model Context Protocol to answer cross-product questions, and get immediate access to our latest AI innovations in SecOps Labs.

Hype versus reality: What you should know about adversarial misuse of AI
Aurora Blum provides an analytical exploration of the practical applications, limitations, and real-world impact of generative AI in the hands of government-backed attackers.

Chrome Enterprise: Secure browsing and collaboration for your enterprise
The browser is key for businesses to harness the power of AI. Join Philippe Rivard to discover how recent AI features in Chrome Enterprise and Google Workspace help employees get their work done, and how robust controls and security features enable IT teams to manage and mitigate generative AI risks.

Track 2: Securing AI innovation

Protect your AI innovation with Google Cloud IAM
Ravi Shah and Sai Kommareddy explain why Identity and Access Management (IAM) and cloud resource posture are fundamental to your AI innovation. This session will cover the latest innovations in IAM, access risk, cloud governance, and Gemini-powered assistance.

Unsupervised autonomy: How to secure AI agents and limit risk
Concerned about AI agent security? Aniket Patankar and Shrikant Pandhare will help you discover how to confidently deploy and use AI agents. Learn about critical risks like compromised agent identities and unsafe tool use, and explore how Google Cloud helps secure the entire AI agent life cycle.

Sovereign Cloud from Google: The power of choice
Matt Garr and Antoine Moreau will help you unlock innovation without sacrificing control. Learn how Google’s Sovereign Cloud delivers the power of choice with residency, access, and transparency controls, and hear directly from Regnology how Data Boundary transformed their business strategy.

Closing keynote

Incident response planning in the age of AI
Learn from legal and crisis communications experts Dan Wire and Beth George about the importance of incident response planning and how the adoption of AI has changed risk, incident response, and the impact of a breach.

We look forward to seeing you at the Google Cloud Security Summit on August 19. Be sure to register today for your free, virtual pass.