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Google launches AI Threat Defense platform combining Gemini, Wiz, and Mandiant
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Google just bolted together three serious assets — Wiz's cloud scanning, Mandiant's threat intelligence, and Gemini's reasoning — into a single platform, and the early numbers from Morgan Stanley are hard to ignore: mean time to detect dropping from 45 minutes to 90 seconds. That's not a marginal improvement; that's a different category of defense. The real question is whether the autonomous Red, Blue, and Green agents hold up outside a marquee reference customer, or whether 99.9% is a controlled-environment number that softens in the wild.
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Google Cloud has announced Google AI Threat Defense, a unified cybersecurity platform integrating Gemini's AI reasoning, Wiz's cloud security scanning, the CodeMender code-level remediation tool, and Mandiant's threat intelligence. The platform follows a four-step framework (prepare, scan, remediate, monitor) and uses autonomous AI agents — named Red, Blue, and Green — to automate penetration testing, threat investigation, and cloud remediation respectively, all under human supervision. Morgan Stanley is cited as an early adopter, claiming a 99.9% reduction in mean time to detect threats — from a 45-minute reactive window down to 90 seconds.
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