Scaling Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) effectively can be complex. This session dives into the challenges and solutions for managing GKE at scale, from cost optimization and security to AI workloads. Learn how enterprises like Dun & Bradstreet leverage GKE as a secure and scalable platform for their generative AI initiatives.

Data sharing is essential for driving innovation in the enterprise, but ensuring security and compliance can be challenging. Join us learn from Google, LiveRamp, and Levi's about how the unified and tightly integrated data governance capabilities of BigQuery can simplify data discovery, governance, and secure sharing. Discover how to build, share, and monetize data products with robust security and compliance, while fostering a data-driven culture across your organization.

Learn how Google Cloud is transforming data and AI governance with the latest governance and catalog innovations built directly into BigQuery. Unify metadata across platforms, boost discoverability, and accelerate insights with robust governance and security features. Discover how AI-powered insights, centralized governance, and integrated policy management can help improve data quality, track lineage, and manage access control, fostering trust and transparency in your data and AI initiatives.

Google Cloud helps you build a strong layered defense with a robust set of access controls and policies. In this session you will learn how you can effectively use Google Cloud security guardrails specifically Organization Policies to achieve a strong security posture, leverage Google Cloud Policy Intelligence capabilities to effectively scale this posture across your organization. We’ll also share how Google Cloud makes it easy for you to start securely in the cloud with our security baseline capabilities. 

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.

The key to maintaining a strong cloud security posture is to build from the start on a robust foundation of baseline security controls. This session delves into how Google Cloud’s Security Foundation and shared fate operating model provide prescriptive guidance for securing your infrastructure, applications, and data across various cloud adoption journeys. We’ll explore how Google Cloud’s Risk Protection Program helps you ensure your business remains resilient in the face of ever-evolving cyber risks.

This session explores how higher education organizations are leveraging AI to transform education, research, and student outcomes. Leaders from public sector and higher education institutions will share strategies for harnessing AI to educate the next generation of leaders, while addressing data privacy, security, and ethical considerations.

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.

Hear from Steve Banick, VP of Enterprise IT Service and Enablement for Telus, about how their organization is modernizing security with Chrome Enterprise Premium. Telus is strengthening its endpoint security by bringing data and threat protections to employees right in the web browser, and supporting secure access for its employees globally.

Gaining visibility and reducing risks across multi-cloud environments has historically meant sifting through an increasing number of disjointed tools across DevOps, Cloud Security, and the SOC. A scalable, unified approach is needed for visibility across multi-cloud environments, including where AI is being used, and which data AI can access. Join Wiz as we discuss how Google Cloud and Wiz are better together to meet these challenges through the adoption of a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).

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Meet with a Google Cloud Security expert to discuss your specific security needs and discover how our solutions can help. Plus, you can grab a complimentary copy of the “Defenders Advantage” book and a cup of coffee while you’re there.

Introducing Cloud WAN, a managed global WAN solution unifying enterprise backbone, metro, and SDWANs into a single network with built-in ecosystem and Google Cloud security and connectivity services that offer choice, higher performance, improved security posture, plus global scale while reducing TCO. Learn how to modernize your network with Google Cloud WAN and leverage Google’s global network, leading security portfolio, and comprehensive network services to connect all your offices, workloads, and data efficiently. 

Startups face a tough challenge: scaling rapidly without compromising security. In this panel, discover how Snap navigated its journey from a small startup to a global platform with the help of Google Cloud. Learn how they tackled growth, performance, and security — and gain practical insights and best practices for scaling your own startup securely and successfully.

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!

BigQuery helps you build an autonomous data and AI platform from your organization. In this session, you’ll learn how BigQuery agentic intelligence is automating critical data workflows, including data preparation, analysis, predictions, model tuning, security, and governance. We’ll explore the BigQuery AI capabilities that all data practitioners can use to address data challenges in the AI era.

Building and maintaining detection rules is the cornerstone of any high-performing security operations function, but it’s often easier said than done. Join us for an in-depth exploration of detections in Google Security Operations (Google SecOps) and learn how it empowers detection teams to stay ahead of threats – from curated detections delivered out of the box by Google SecOps to address the latest threats, to building custom rules using entity graphs, AI, and the wealth of functions and context provided by Google SecOps.

The world of data security and privacy is changing. Quantum computing threatens traditional encryption, but you can stay ahead. Learn how to protect your AI and machine learning (ML) models and your sensitive data with cutting-edge techniques and tools like Gemini. This session covers end-to-end privacy, confidential computing with Google Cloud, navigating the post-quantum cryptography (PQC) landscape, the challenges and opportunities of PQC, and how Google Cloud is preparing you for the future.

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.

Explore how AI agents and assistants are transforming Software Logistics, bringing intelligence to cloud application delivery. This session demonstrates practical applications of AI in deployment automation, configuration management, and runtime optimization. Discover how Platform Engineers leverage AI to create more efficient delivery systems. Learn design strategies from automated security scanning to intelligent deployment decisions, and how to integrate these capabilities into your existing platform engineering practices.

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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.

Bad actors are sneaky, slippery, and getting smarter all the time. However, businesses now have a powerful new defense. Advances in AI offer opportunities to arm developers with information and tools to help mitigate risks. Join us as we share perspectives on design, considerations, and challenges when deploying AI to enhance security and improve efficiencies for developers.

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Generative AI is revolutionizing app development, demanding a robust network architecture capable of supporting distributed, cross-cloud deployments. This session dives into the essential networking strategies for building and deploying these next-generation applications. Discover new technologies to establish secure, reliable, and high-performance connectivity spanning Google Cloud, multicloud, and hybrid networks. Explore how to seamlessly integrate service-centric architectures to accelerate developer velocity without compromising security.

Generative AI enables you to build amazing new apps, but you may also have concerns. Will it be too complex or too expensive, or will it create security risks? Fortunately, building good gen AI apps has become much easier in the past year, in large part due to updated capabilities within databases. We’ll learn how Google Cloud databases handle key AI technologies like vector search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration, helping you bridge the gap between general-purpose AI models and your business-specific data. We’ll dive into some fun application examples to see how they were built and how you can use the same techniques in your apps.

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.

This talk explores IAM Deny's ability to enforce security at scale, drawing from hands-on experience with major enterprise customers. Learn to craft effective Deny policies, manage exceptions, and integrate Org Policies for a multi-layered security approach. Master the Policy Troubleshooter to efficiently resolve access issues. Move beyond simple "allow" rules, embrace the power of least privilege, and transform your Google Cloud security posture with IAM Deny.