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 why Chubb, Munich Re, and Beazley, global leaders in cyber insurance, have partnered with Google Cloud to enhance the Risk Protection Program. Learn about our shared vision for added cyber insurance and how it translates to stronger protection and greater peace of mind for your business.

Presenting “one network,” a novel approach to simplify service integration and increase compliance across heterogeneous environments. Learn how using open source proxies provides a policy-oriented network architecture for consistent policy enforcement, service assembly, and secure-by-default deployments. One network also provides role separation across DevOps, SecOps, site reliability engineers, and app developers, streamlining operations and increasing efficiency. Attend this session to discover how one network can transform your approach to service delivery.

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.

With great power comes great responsibility – and the need for confidentiality. This talk explores how confidential computing technology can act as a powerful shield for your AI deployments. We’ll show how Confidential Computing and confidential accelerators safeguard sensitive data and algorithms, even during processing, to ensure that your AI workloads remain protected throughout their life cycle.

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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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As the volume and value of data in cloud surges, defending it is an ever increasing challenge. In 2022, 94% of cloud tenants were targeted every month, and 62% are successfully compromised. A focus on preventing breaches is no longer sufficient – data must be defensible, even after a compromise. This session explores how to expand your cybersecurity strategy, enabling you to control risk, recover quickly and safely in the event of an incident, and ensure your Google Cloud data and business stand resilient against cyberattacks.

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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.

Take part in the new SOC Experience – a view into real-world attack scenarios. Learn about the latest hacker tactics and how Google equips cybersecurity teams with the data, AI, and scalable analytics to detect and remediate attacks.

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.

Introducing Google’s next-generation global network that powers Google Cloud and our multibillion user apps like Search, YouTube, Google Maps, and more. Learn about the groundbreaking technologies and the design principles of "exponential scalability,” “beyond-NINEs reliability,” “fine-grained programmability”, and “from automation to autonomy” that have guided our next-generation architecture. Discover how you can leverage these innovations to transform your enterprise connectivity and respond to the dramatic demands of AI–powered services.

Cybersecurity threats are escalating rapidly. How can lean IT teams effectively defend against sophisticated attacks given the complex threat landscape? This session explores how Google Cloud empowers your team with advanced threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response capabilities, enabling you to protect your organization and stay ahead of the curve.