{"id":94763,"date":"2023-06-30T19:48:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T19:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/?p=4126452"},"modified":"2023-06-30T19:48:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T19:48:48","slug":"how-generative-ai-is-a-game-changer-for-cloud-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/?p=94763","title":{"rendered":"How Generative AI is a Game Changer for Cloud Security"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Generative AI will be a game changer in cloud security, especially in common pain points like preventing threats, reducing toil from repetitive tasks, and bridging the cybersecurity talent gap. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cloud security and artificial intelligence have had a long-term partnership. For nearly a decade, AI has been used to identify threats and prioritize risks in the cloud through its pattern recognition capabilities and anomaly detection.<\/p>\n

A lot has changed over the past 10 years, however. With more people and organizations migrating to cloud applications, threat actors have followed along, seeing cloud applications as a prime target.<\/p>\n

Cloud security is more important than ever to an organization\u2019s cybersecurity maturity, and AI\u2019s integration into cloud security tools is a vital layer of defense against an expanding cloud-based threat landscape. Now, one of the biggest game changers for cloud security is generative AI<\/a>, according to Google.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenerative AI has the potential to reduce the toil of repetitive tasks that plague security teams, like aggregating and enriching data from a multitude of sources to gain a more complete understanding of risks and where to focus,\u201d Sunil Potti, VP\/GM of Google Cloud Security, said in a recent blog post<\/a> as part of the Google Cloud Security Summit in June.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s own cloud security efforts include AI Workbench, where AI will be used to address and prevent emerging threats, eliminate the toil of threat fatigue caused by alert overload and close the talent gap.<\/p>\n

SEE: Here is a deep dive into how <\/strong>generative AI works<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Building on AI\u2019s role in cloud security<\/h2>\n

Traditionally, AI has been used to detect and remediate hundreds of threats in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n