Google Cloud unveils AI Threat Defense platform

Google Cloud has launched a new autonomous cybersecurity platform designed to defend enterprises against attacks that increasingly leverage artificial intelligence. The platform, called AI Threat Defense, was announced on Thursday, May 28, 2026, and aims to predict attack paths and automate remediation at machine speed.

The launch responds to a rapidly evolving threat landscape where cybercriminals are using AI to discover and exploit software vulnerabilities far faster than traditional human-led defenses can respond. The critical window between a vulnerability being discovered and being attacked has shrunk from weeks to mere hours, according to company statements. Google Cloud's Chief Operating Officer and President of Security Products, Francis deSouza, stated that security and engineering teams can no longer manually find, analyze, and patch flaws fast enough, necessitating an autonomous system designed to outpace attackers.

The new platform integrates several of Google's security assets into a unified framework. It combines threat intelligence from Mandiant, the cloud security platform from Wiz—which Google recently acquired—and the reasoning and code remediation...