As it grows more than twice as fast as rivals Microsoft and AWS and expands its innovative leadership in enterprise AI, Google Cloud has strengthened its #1 spot on the Cloud Wars Top 10 by launching an AI-powered and end-to-end cybersecurity solution offering “transformative vulnerability management.” With cybercriminals aggressively adopting AI to devise and launch attacks that are increasingly sophisticated and damaging, the new Google AI Threat Defense goes beyond standard cybersecurity approaches from the pre-AI Era that are no longer intelligent enough, fast enough, or powerful enough to cope with this new wave of threats. As shown in the diagram below, Google AI Threat Defense is designed to help businesses not simply react to attacks that are already underway, but also to give those customers an ongoing process centered on integrated preparation and analysis, real-time prioritization of threats, autonomous remediation, and nonstop monitoring and evaluation. This highly advanced new cybersecurity is the brainchild of Google Cloud’s Francis deSouza, who is not only COO of the red-hot company — Q1 revenue soared 63% to $20 billion — but also president of Security Products. In a blog post introducing Google AI Threat Defense, deSouza said the comprehensive new solution enables customers to “fight AI with AI” and will “ensure that your enterprise doesn’t just keep pace with automated adversaries, but consistently outpaces them.” More from that deSouza’s post: AI has changed the threat landscape; cybercriminals are using it to find security cracks faster than cybersecurity teams can manually fix them. Attacks that used to take weeks to carry out can now happen in mere hours or days. Organizations need to be able to keep pace and protect themselves against AI agent-driven, high-speed attacks — but they can no longer rely on legacy, manual methods. To defend against this range of threats,