Google is opening a new center, the Google Safety Engineering Center (GSEC) Málaga, on the Spanish coast. It’s a hub for cybersecurity, working towards making the internet safer. As cyber threats become more advanced and harmful, GSEC Málaga wants to be part of the solution. It will collaborate with experts, academics, businesses, and governments to share knowledge and research. This center is in line with Google’s dedication to European security.
Google’s Cybersecurity Center in Malaga will Join Centers in Dublin and Munich
GSEC Málaga will bring together Google teams to develop and scale cutting-edge research and tools to tackle evolving cyber threats. It joins existing Google Safety Engineering Centers in Dublin and Munich, where engineers actively work on digital safety solutions. The center also emphasizes the importance of open security principles.
In addition to combating cyber threats, GSEC Málaga will focus on helping others enhance their cybersecurity skills and protections. It plans to offer personalized training workshops for government officials, businesses, jobseekers, NGOs, and local schools in a dedicated training space. Google, having already trained 12 million people in digital skills across Europe, announced a $10 million pledge through Google.org to support cybersecurity skills training and community organizations in Europe.
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AI Can Help Speed up Threat Detection and Mitigation
As technology becomes more sophisticated, so do the threats. That’s why at the launch event in Málaga today, we unveiled a new report by VirusTotal that details how AI can help us identify malicious code faster, with more accuracy, and for more people compared to traditional tools alone.
For example, malware is one of Europe’s largest cybersecurity threats, but malware analysis experts in Europe are in short supply, AI can help fill some gaps. Our report demonstrates how AI can work with traditional techniques to increase the speed and accuracy of malware detection—and give non-security experts the opportunity to spot and prevent threats without needing highly specialized knowledge or experience.
Our report also details how AI is capable of identifying malicious code in scripts with 70% more accuracy than traditional techniques alone. Researchers found that AI was up to 300% more accurate than traditional techniques at detecting attempts by malicious scripts to target a device with a common vulnerability or exploit.
By making cybersecurity more accessible to more people, AI can increase the protections for European organizations and businesses of all sizes.
Through collaboration at hubs like GSEC Málaga and by leveraging leading-edge technology like AI, we can fix and stop more threats, increasing trust in technology and making a safer, more secure ecosystem for all of us.