Cloud CISO Perspectives: 27 security announcements at Next '25
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2025. Today, Google Cloud Security’s Peter Bailey reviews our top 27 security announcements from Next ‘25.
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Google Cloud Next '25 Highlights
We just wrapped our annual Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas, where we introduced innovations across AI, app development, infrastructure, data cloud, partners, and more — including security.
From the moment the curtain went up at our opening keynote, we showcased 229 new products, new capabilities, and new enhancements that highlight Google Cloud’s commitment to how our AI-optimized platform can help transform the way that companies work and our skyrocketing customer momentum.
You can check out a recap of the opening keynote here. We made significant announcements with our seventh-generation TPU, Ironwood, our largest and most powerful TPU to date; three significant new AI inference enhancements; the preview availability of Gemini 2.5 Pro; bringing Gemini to on-premises environments with Google Distributed Cloud; new capabilities to build and manage multi-agent systems; new and improved scientific research tools; and improvements throughout Google Workspace, AI hypercomputer stack, networking, and application development.
(Be sure to check out the reimagining of the Wizard of Oz at The Sphere, a collaboration between Sphere Entertainment, Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, Hollywood production company Magnopus, and five others.)
For the first time this year, we also hosted CISO Connect at Next, a unique opportunity for security and business leaders to delve into the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape with experts from Google on the current threat landscape, breach mitigation strategies, and the transformative potential of AI in fortifying your organization's security posture.
"We are all solving for the same security challenges; CISO Connect offers a safe environment to collaborate and share, unlike any other conference," said Mike Orosz, CISO, Vertiv.
Top 27 Security Announcements
We also focused heavily on innovations across our security portfolio, designed to deliver stronger security outcomes and enable every organization to make Google a part of their security team. Fresh from Next ‘25, here’s our top 27 security announcements.
- Google Security Operations
- Security Command Center
- Chrome Enterprise Premium
- Security
- Mandiant Cybersecurity Consulting
- Google Cloud Preps for Agentic AI Era with 'Ironwood' TPU, New ...
- Sovereign Cloud
- Identity and Access Management
- Data security
- Network security
To learn more about how your organization can benefit from our announcements at Next ‘25, check out our CISO Insights Hub, and stay tuned for our announcements later this month at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
Security Updates and Resources
At Google Cloud, we have discussed with great interest from security leaders how to move from artisanal security to operating at industrial scale. Please join us as we shift the conversation to explore how organizations can refine and optimize their security approach to thrive in today’s environment.
Here are the latest updates, products, services, and resources from our security teams so far this month:
Please visit the Google Cloud blog for more security stories published this month.
Sec-Gemini v1 outperforms other models on CTI-MCQ, a leading threat intelligence benchmark, by at least 11%, and it also outperforms other models by at least 10.5% on the CTI-Root Cause Mapping benchmark.
Please visit the Google Cloud blog for more threat intelligence stories published this month.
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