{"id":236733,"date":"2026-04-28T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/google-cloud-next-2026-agentic-ai-to-become-operational-necessity-for-security\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:20:12","slug":"google-cloud-next-2026-agentic-ai-to-become-operational-necessity-for-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/google-cloud-next-2026-agentic-ai-to-become-operational-necessity-for-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud Next 2026: Agentic AI to Become \u2018Operational Necessity\u2019 for Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Cloud Next 2026: Agentic AI to Become \u2018Operational Necessity\u2019 for Security<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/biztechmagazine.com\/article\/2026\/04\/google-cloud-next-2026-agentic-ai-become-operational-necessity-security<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-28 14:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe can\u2019t just take our old cyber playbooks and use them; we have to update those playbooks. A lot of the principles still apply, but we need to update them in a number of important ways. We need a new infrastructure that is AI-native,\u201d said Francis deSouza, COO and president of security products at Google Cloud, during a session highlighting the security focus at the tech giant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WATCH<\/strong>: Get a view of the Expo Floor at Google Cloud Next 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While enterprise security teams are evolving with the help of AI, that also means malicious actors have those capabilities to mount their offensives, from fully agentic attacks to older tactics enhanced with newer tricks (such as multimodal phishing attempts). Businesses need to respond to threats at \u201cmachine speed,\u201d deSouza said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At Google, the focus will be on continued investments in visibility into the threat landscape, deSouza said, refining its full-stack AI infrastructure and co-engineering security projects with AI infrastructure and models so that customers can take advantage of the latest models as soon as they\u2019re released. The company is \u201cshifting left\u201d to build security into its services.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Target Senior Vice President and CISO Jodie Kautt discussed why the retail giant had to pivot on its approach to security.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTypically, at Target, we were really a build shop, and that served my team really well for a long time,\u201d Kautt said, noting that the company has a deeply technical team, dozens of security patents and a Cyber Fusion Center on threat analysis and detection. But, for the future, that approach needed adjustment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

READ MORE<\/strong>: Expanding AI agent adoption requires a culture shift.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve pivoted to was a build and partnership strategy. We\u2019re going to still build when we have unique problems to solve for Target or to solve for retail,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we\u2019re going to partner where we can extend our capabilities with organizations like Google.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kautt noted that…<\/p>\n

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