Priceline is on a path to take their cloud network to the next level. Architects from Priceline will share their drivers, objectives and practical experience of taking a phased approach to a Northstar architecture based on Google's Cross-cloud Network. Learn how Priceline is migrating their entire network security stack to Google Cloud, evolving their VPC networking to a policy-centric model and streamlining connectivity to other Cloud Service Providers while gaining operational efficiencies, higher reliability and a favorable TCO.

Google Threat Intelligence’s Capture the Flag game uses real-world data, including Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) advisories, ransom notes, and information from the dark web, to simulate a threat hunt. Test your cybersecurity skills by navigating clues, analyzing evidence, and solving puzzles to capture the flags with Google Threat Intelligence.

What’s step one for protecting cloud-native applications? CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, DSPM or CNAPP? Get beyond acronyms and learn how to improve your security quickly and simply by understanding security findings in context — workloads, infrastructure, identities, network, sensitive data — and then prioritizing risks that matter most. Join this session to see how a unified platform empowers multiple stakeholders to drive identity-driven visibility, risk prioritization, and remediation across complex cloud and hybrid environments.

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Granting users the minimum level of access and permissions needed to perform their jobs can reduce the attack surface area of your cloud environment. Learn how Security Command Center integrates cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) to help you understand which users have access to which cloud resources, get machine learning (ML)-generated recommendations to reduce unnecessary permissions, and accelerate responses to identity-driven vulnerabilities.

Imagine never writing another detection rule, manually creating postures, or remediating common findings. These are the toilsome workflows security teams deal with today that AI promises to offload, thanks to agentic capabilities. When infused through existing tooling, agentic AI will fundamentally change how security teams work, freeing teams to focus on complex issues while reducing time to detect and respond. Join this session to learn how agentic AI is transforming the user experience and driving security outcomes for modern enterprises.

Discover how Google’s interconnected ecosystem of Google Cloud platform and specialty solutions can address the needs and challenges of resource-constrained IT teams. We’ll delve into practical use cases and demonstrate how Google Cloud’s specialized business intelligence platform (Looker) and security solutions (Google Security Operations, Mandiant) can help your business improve efficiency and reduce costs while improving your security posture.

Edge computing is becoming increasingly important in the retail industry's digital transformation as it enables innovative customer experiences. As retailers deploy more edge applications and services, securing these environments becomes critical. GDC-Connected extends Google Cloud's infrastructure and services to the edge, offering a robust platform.

This talk will provide you with the knowledge and tools to strengthen your GDC-Connected environment's security through practical demonstrations and real-world examples.

In a world where speed and innovation are paramount, bolting on security after deployment is no longer an option. In this Spotlight, experts from Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud will dive into the future of AI security through practical experiences faced by customers to address today and tomorrow's most pressing challenges in AI adoption—Shadow AI, data governance complexities, and the evolving threat landscape to AI applications. Discover how a Secure by Design approach, with security embedded across AI initiatives from inception, ensures resilience, scalability, and trust. Don't miss this opportunity to gain actionable insights for accelerating your AI journey securely.

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Learn how to become a security leader and influence product development, even without direct authority. This session provides practical strategies for cybersecurity professionals to build credibility and drive collaboration to achieve security goals.

Google Cloud’s Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) solution has powerful capabilities to modernize and transform contact centers. Learn about the unique features, including co-browse for visual agent assistance and multimodal interactions for seamless customer journeys across channels like voice, chat, and email. The session will also cover integrated quality management (QM) and workforce management (WFM) tools for optimizing agent performance and scheduling, and a robust security architecture featuring VPC Service Controls.

New AI workloads in the enterprise can create new and novel security exposures. In this session, you’ll learn directly from our Mandiant team about what they are seeing in this new AI-driven world. And we’ll share how Google Cloud AI protection capabilities can help protect your workloads against the most sophisticated threats. We’ll guide you through how you can protect your data, models, applications, and infrastructure throughout the AI life cycle.

Maximize performance with innovations in Compute Engine. Come learn about the latest innovations and portfolio additions from Compute Engine. Learn about new virtual machines (VMs) that are purpose-built to deliver leadership performance for all your workloads, including AI and machine learning (ML), databases, enterprise applications, and network and security compliances. Understand how to pick the right VM. We’ll cover product capabilities, best practices, and announce exciting new products targeted at making it easy for you to operate your Compute Engine environment.

Google Cloud’s Sensitive Data Protection service is a highly effective capability that can discover and classify sensitive data in your environment, helping to prevent data leakage. But it also has features useful to developers to minimize the exposure of confidential customer information when handling large volumes of sensitive data. By taking advantage of Sensitive Data Protection transformation techniques, you can de-identify sensitive information in a dataset through redaction, replacement, masking, tokenization, bucketing, date shifting, and time extraction. Developers retain the ability to test applications using functional data while still meeting security requirements put in place to protect customer information. By using pseudonymization, which is reversible and provides an easier path for troubleshooting, developers will have a more useful dataset for functional testing than they would if they used data anonymization. In this talk, you’ll learn how to use the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API (DLP API) of Sensitive Data Protection to inspect data for sensitive information and build an automated data transformation pipeline to create de-identified copies of your dataset.

Test your incident response skills in the Security Tabletop Workshop, an exercise that simulates a realistic cyberattack to assess and improve an organization’s security posture. Tabletop exercises are a critical component of any cybersecurity strategy, helping your team reduce the impact of cyberattacks, evaluate response strategies, address gaps, foster collaboration, and clarify roles during a crisis.

As attackers get more creative, organizations need to take a defense-in-depth approach to mitigate data exfiltration risks and reduce their attack surface. Join us in this session to learn about some of the most common attack vectors that can lead to data exfiltration, and discover which Google Cloud security controls can help foil these attacks.

Join Google Cloud’s leading security experts along with security leaders from leading enterprise companies to discuss cybersecurity challenges in the age of generative AI. In this live panel discussion, learn how clever cybercriminals are weaponizing this revolutionary technology to launch mind-blowing attacks. We’ll dive headfirst into the latest tricks, from AI-fueled attacks to autonomous hacking tools that operate with chilling efficiency. Discover how companies are fighting back with cutting-edge defenses with tales directly from security practitioners, including solutions from leading security ISVs (independent software vendors). By the end of this session, you’ll have the knowledge you need to outsmart the bad guys and protect your digital kingdom – today and tomorrow.

Explore the journey behind building the McKinsey Value Intelligence Assistant, bringing AI powered curation and insights to key business leaders by integrating dozens of datasets, filings and earnings call transcripts from 50K global companies. Gain insights into overcoming challenges in system architecture, data security, and real-time analytics to create a robust, cloud-native data intelligence platform with a small team in a short period time and the resulting business impact!

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Security is often referred to as a big data problem, and the growing volume, variety, and nuance of security telemetry requires more sophistication and control than ever before. This session dives into the new data pipeline management capabilities of Google Security Operations. We’ll show how you can improve the way you route, reduce, redact, enrich, and transform security data to manage scale, reduce costs, satisfy compliance mandates, and, most importantly, drive better security outcomes.

Running performance-intensive services at scale while meeting the rigorous security and compliance requirements of some of the most demanding public and private sector organizations presents many interesting challenges. In this talk, you will hear how Pexip, a leading video technology provider, works to build, operate, and protect their global technology platform with the help of Google Cloud security solutions.

Experience what a real cyberattack is like in ThreatSpace, a digital training ground on Google Cloud. While the Mandiant red team tries to break into your system, the Mandiant incident response team guides you through the investigation. Use Google Security Operations and Threat Intelligence tools to uncover how the attackers got in and what they’ve done. Extra points if you can catch the bad guys!

In this session, Fortinet and Google Cloud will jointly present on how Fortinet's AI-powered security solution integrated with Google Cloud's native security services can help organizations make better informed decisions, rapidly respond to threats, and save time on even the most complex tasks.

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Gain unprecedented visibility into AI applications and threats with Palo Alto Networks AI-Runtime, now easily deployed with Google Packet Mirroring/Intercept. This session reveals how this powerful combination analyzes network traffic to discover both legitimate and malicious uses of AI, enabling proactive threat detection and rapid response. Learn how to simplify deployment, improve security posture, and stay ahead of the evolving AI threat landscape.

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Connect with other security professionals in our Birds of a Feather sessions. Dive into lively discussions with peers and Google Cloud experts on key security topics, including identity and access management, network security, multicloud monitoring, and more.

Managing petabytes of Google Cloud storage objects? Attend this session to learn how the new Storage Intelligence product simplifies managing billions of objects across thousands of buckets. Leverage AI-driven insights to analyze cost, performance, security, and compliance – all through intuitive natural language queries. Quickly act on insights with bucket relocation and batch operations. Join us to uncover practical tools and exciting new features that can transform you into a Cloud Storage superhero.

Join Linda Moss, Google Cloud Director of Cloud Learning Services; Travis Runty, Rackspace Head of Security; and Shefali Victors, Rackspace GCP CoE Lead Architect, for a no-holds-barred look at why credentials are the new currency in an AI-powered world. Whether you’re interested in career advancement or skilling up your team, certifications get past the hype and validate real-world readiness. In fact, 9 in 10 leaders from organizations using Google Cloud say that certifications increase their confidence in a candidates’ knowledge or ability.