Google brings Sec-PaLM, a generative AI, to improve cloud-based cybersecurity

Sec-PaLM will provide "human-readable" explanations of attack exposure to users of Google's Security Command Centre AI.

Google is among companies aiming to get in on the ground floor of a new trend in the generative AI space: generative AI for cybersecurity. The tech giant unveiled Cloud Security AI Workbench, a cybersecurity suite powered by Sec-PaLM, a specialized "security" AI language model. Sec-PaLM, an outgrowth of Google's PaLM paradigm, is "fine-tuned for security use cases," according to Google, and incorporates security intelligence such as research on software vulnerabilities, malware, threat indicators, and behavioral threat actor profiles.

The Cloud Security AI Workbench includes a number of new AI-powered solutions, such as Mandiant's Threat Intelligence AI, which will use Sec-PaLM to detect, analyze, and respond to security risks. Another Google business, VirusTotal, will employ Sec-PaLM to assist subscribers in analyzing and explaining the behavior of harmful scripts.

Meanwhile, Sec-PaLM will also assist customers of Chronicle, Google’s cloud cybersecurity service, in searching for security events and interacting "conservationally" with the results. Meanwhile, Sec-PaLM will provide "human-readable" explanations of attack exposure to users of Google's Security Command Centre AI, including impacted assets, recommended mitigations, and risk summaries for security, compliance, and privacy results.