Google Introduces Cutting-Edge Threat Intelligence Solution During RSA Conference 2024

This foundation of service from Google is built on a broad sensor network encompassing 4 billion devices, 1.5 billion email accounts, and the daily thwarting of 100 million phishing attempts.

Google introduced a fresh threat intelligence solution leveraging its vast scale, reach, and AI prowess as distinctive advantages. Revealed during the RSA Conference 2024, Google Threat Intelligence combines insights from Mandiant's incident response inquiries, collective wisdom from VirusTotal's community, and security data from open-source intelligence sources.

In a blog post authored by Sunil Potti, Google Cloud Security's VP and GM, alongside Sandra Joyce, Google Threat Intelligence's VP, they highlighted the service's foundation on a broad sensor network encompassing 4 billion devices, 1.5 billion email accounts, and the daily thwarting of 100 million phishing attempts. Additionally, Google Threat Intelligence harnesses Gemini, Google's advanced multimodal AI model, to expedite the operationalisation of threat intelligence, enabling security teams to swiftly address emerging threats.

The blog post read, "By combining our comprehensive view of the threat landscape with Gemini, we have supercharged the threat research processes, augmented defence capabilities, and reduced the time it takes to identify and protect against novel threats. Customers now have the ability to condense large data sets in seconds, quickly analyse suspicious files, and simplify challenging manual threat intelligence tasks."

They said that Gemini 1.5 Pro can "dramatically simplify the technical and labour-intensive process of reverse engineering malware." They also claimed that it was able to process the entire decompiled code of WannaCry and identify the killswitch in 34 seconds.

Katell Thielemann, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner, explained TechTarget Editorial why Google acquired Mandiant. The vice president said, "There is a tremendous amount of threat data that Google has visibility into, from protecting users around the world 24/7. We're incredibly fortunate to be standing in the middle of all those rich sources of data and technology that we can use. We're just in a really powerful place to pull those pieces together and get a good view that we've never had before. And when you put AI right on top of that, it's an amazing mix."