Google Announces New Cybersecurity Product: Google Threat Intelligence

Google announced a new cybersecurity product, the Google Threat Intelligence, at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on May 6. The new platform aims to help organizations and security teams stay up to date with threats, prevent possible attacks, and improve defenses.

Google’s document explains that this new product combines three intelligence actors: the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, the VirusTotal threat service, and Gemini, Google’s generative AI technology.

“Google Threat Intelligence includes Gemini in Threat Intelligence, our AI-powered agent that provides conversational search across our vast repository of threat intelligence, enabling customers to gain insights and protect themselves from threats faster than ever before,” Google experts say in the report.

Google Threat Intelligence will operate with Google’s Large Language Model (LLM) Gemini 1.5 Pro and will detect threats quickly. As an example of its efficiency, Google considered a case study where the Gemini 1.5 Pro was able to process and detect the malware WannaCry and recognize its killswitch within 34 seconds.

Through a demo, Google explains how intuitively the platform operates, and the multiple sections and data users can access, including lists, graphics, links, and documents. Cybersecurity experts and teams will be able to access relevant information about possible threats, recent reports on attacks, and specific data from recognized menaces—like specific malware— after providing basic information such as URL, geographic location, and the industry related to the organization.

The software includes curated information about potential threat actors, their modus operandi, associated groups, common attacks in the industry, historical data, communities, and campaigns to help security teams research, equip themselves, and act accordingly.

However, this announcement comes not too long after Google decided to discontinue its VPN service due to non-usage and just a few weeks after researchers at HiddenLayer revealed that Gemini models had security flaws. Hopefully, Google has taken action to improve its cybersecurity products.