Google Cloud COO advocates platform approach to AI security

google cloud coo francis de souza emphasized that ai and data strategies must integrate security from inception, rather than treating it as an afterthought. he highlighted the risk of shadow ai, where employees use unsanctioned consumer tools, and noted that autonomous agents can easily expose forgotten data repositories like old sharepoint servers with outdated access controls. citing a reduction in the breach-to-attack progression window from eight hours to 22 seconds, de souza called for an ai-native, fully agentic defense to match machine speed threats. he stressed that this security posture must be consistent across multi-cloud environments because companies rarely operate on a single cloud.