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.

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.

A cyber threat profile should guide your proactive security strategy. It should point out the threats targeting you, the tools they’ll use against you, and the tactics they’ll use in an attack. Join Mandiant experts as they share how they conduct and develop cyber threat profiles. Designed for security leaders and practitioners, this session explains how to build a proactive strategy with the threat profile as the foundation.

Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Network delivers powerful, AI-powered network security to protect your cloud infrastructure from a wide variety of network threats. This session showcases the latest innovations, including advanced malware protection, domain name system [DNS) security, data loss prevention, network security posture controls, DDoS protection, web application protection, and a cloud-first mechanism to easily integrate third-party network security services.

This session explores how cloud-native security, powered by Google Cloud, enables organizations to streamline operations, reduce complexity, and achieve better security outcomes with a lean team. Join us for a customer success story, partner insights, and a lively panel discussion featuring industry experts on building a future-proof Security Operations Center (SOC) with limited resources.

Get a guided, hands-on experience with Google Cloud’s flagship cloud security solution. Learn how to detect cloud misconfigurations, find active threats, and use Security Command Center’s virtual red teaming to identify high-risk toxic combinations and attack paths that expose high-value cloud resources. Then see how to take action on security issues with built-in response capabilities. Learn why Security Command Center is the best security solution for Google Cloud environments.

Discover strategies for transforming your data and AI landscape by making governance a competitive advantage. Learn from industry executives on how to establish robust governance frameworks, ensuring confidence and control in your data and AI initiatives, and gain actionable insights to position your organization for successful AI-driven innovation.

Ever wonder how Google Cloud supports billions of daily users worldwide? Dive into the world of Google’s cloud regions, global expansion, and data centers. This session unveils the innovative technology behind these modern marvels and the operational expertise that keeps them humming. Learn about our cutting-edge efficiency and state-of-the-art security. Discover how innovation and sustainability is key to our design and how you can apply Google’s best practices to your own infrastructure.

Securing AI applications demands a full life cycle approach. Palo Alto Networks integrates AI Runtime Security and AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) to protect your workloads from development to runtime. Gain inline data protection, prevent model misuse, and stop zero-day threats with centralized security policies and real-time threat detection. Discover how to automate security, reduce risk, and safeguard sensitive data while enabling innovation in your AI ecosystems.

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AI agents are revolutionizing organizations by embedding AI into workflows, delivering autonomous outcomes. While this offers opportunities, it also introduces risks. To mitigate these, we must implement agent-specific controls. AI is a powerful security tool, enabling resilience & optimization at scale. Discover how Accenture’s Security AI Engineering practice is developing modular blueprints to rapidly integrate AI & agentic capabilities, accelerating security operations, bridging tooling gaps, & enhancing critical infrastructure resilience.

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This talk explores the practical challenges and solutions of a global car manufacturer's SOC modernization. We'll move beyond theory to examine their use-case driven approach, focusing on Agile Methodology for rapid progress, Threat-Centric Design to guide security, "SOC as Code" for automation, and SOAR Playbooks for incident response. We'll share insights on optimizing log ingestion, building threat profiles, and "shifting left" by integrating security earlier in development. Additionally, we'll discuss organizational restructuring and balancing transformative change with incremental improvements. This session offers valuable lessons for security professionals modernizing their SOC in a large-scale enterprise.

APIs dominate the web, accounting for the majority of all internet traffic. And more AI means more APIs, because they act as an important mechanism to move data into and out of AI applications, AI agents, and large language models (LLMs). So how can you make sure all of these APIs are secure? In this session, we’ll take you through OWASP’s top 10 API and LLM security risks, and show you how to mitigate these risks using Google Cloud’s security portfolio, including Apigee, Model Armor, Cloud Armor, Google Security Operations, and Security Command Center.

Learn about key security features and practices to help you build and deploy agents securely using Vertex AI.

Chat with a Mandiant expert about services to help you use AI securely, assess AI for vulnerabilities, red team, and use AI to help defend against cyberattacks.

Navigating the complex world of compliance can be daunting. Join us to discover how to simplify your compliance journey on Google Cloud, enabling you to build at scale while meeting stringent industry regulations with ease.

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In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to create a cross-region HTTP(S) load balancer that intelligently distributes traffic to instances in multiple regions. By setting up four Compute Engine instances across two regions, you'll configure the load balancer to ensure seamless traffic routing to the right instance. This lab will help you optimize application performance, improve availability, and enhance fault tolerance across geographically distributed systems.

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Discover how Apigee and Advanced API Security can help you stay protected from OWASP Top 10 API Security risks, and how to adopt a layered API security approach using Apigee and Cloud Armor together. You’ll also see how Apigee can send API security incident information to Google SecOps for centralized triage and correlation, and serve as an enforcement point for Model Armor to sanitize prompts and responses for LLMs fronted by APIs.

Simplify your compliance journey on Google Cloud. This demo showcases how to build at scale while meeting stringent compliance and regulations. Explore tools and strategies that streamline compliance processes, reducing complexity and enabling you to focus on innovation.

This demo highlights the latest innovations in Cloud Network Security covering network threat protection, network security posture controls, DDoS, web application protection, network privacy, and new mechanisms to integrate 3rd party Network Security services.

Explore how Google Cloud provides built-in secure controls to help you maintain a strong cloud security posture. See in action how Google Cloud’s Security Foundation recommended products help address most common cloud adoption use cases, including infrastructure modernization, securing AI workloads, data analytics, and application modernization.

Protect your sensitive data in the cloud. This demo explores how to discover, classify, and redact sensitive information like PII and PHI across your cloud footprint using Google Sensitive Data Protection. See how to leverage encryption, key management, and confidential computing to further secure your data in transit, at rest, and in use.

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Discover how our intelligence-driven and AI-powered security operations platform, Google SecOps, combines Google’s hyper-scale infrastructure along with unparalleled visibility and understanding of cyber adversaries to enable security teams to uncover the latest cyber threats in near real-time, and surface the right context to investigate, and respond with speed and precision.

Experience how you can get ahead of the latest threats with Google Threat Intelligence. Know who’s targeting you and focus on the most relevant threats to your organization by understanding the threat actors and their ever changing tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Leverage these insights to proactively set your defenses, hunt efficiently, and respond to new and novel threats in minutes.

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