Few things are more critical to IT operations than security. Security incidents, coordinated threat actors, and regulatory mandates are coupled with the imperative to effectively manage risk and the vital business task of rolling out generative AI. That's why in 2025 at Google Cloud Next we are creating an in-depth security experience to show you all the ways that you can make Google part of your security team and advance your innovation agenda with confidence.

Let’s see why Google Cloud Next is shaping up to be a must-attend event for security experts and the security-curious alike. 

What’s in store for you

Here are some of the opportunities you’ll have to interact with Google’s security experts and security technology:

• Our massive Security Lounge, a dedicated area of the expo where you can meet the security leaders engineering Google Cloud’s secure by design platform and products, and experience product demos spanning Google Cloud’s security portfolio. Get all your burning product questions answered and provide direct input to the teams who build them.

• An interactive Security Operations Center to experience the power of Google Security Operations from the eyes of both defender and adversary. See first-hand how Google equips cybersecurity teams with the data, AI, and scalable analytics to detect and remediate today’s most sophisticated attacks.

• At the Mandiant Threat Space, you’ll be able to hear and learn directly from frontline defenders and incident responders who battle advanced threats and defend critical infrastructure around the world. 

• The Securing AI experience demonstrates how Google Cloud products and expertise can help you manage AI risk, from creation to consumption: inventory your AI assets, safeguard your AI systems, and respond to threats.

• Our Capture the Flag challenge, where you can test and hone your cybersecurity skills. This exercise will use real-world data, including Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) advisories, ransom notes, and information from the dark web, to simulate a real-world threat hunt. Navigate clues, analyze evidence, and solve puzzles to capture the flags and best the competition.

• Security tabletop exercises where participants role-play and analyze aspects of a hypothetical but realistic cybersecurity incident, such as a data breach or ransomware attack. Gain insight into how your organization is likely to perform during incidents before they happen and learn best practices for handling these incredibly challenging situations that you can take back to your organization.

• Birds of a Feather sessions for insightful discussions on key cloud security topics. These are unique opportunities to connect with peers, share your cybersecurity expertise and solve problems with the help of the Google Cloud Security community.

Security breakout sessions

If you’ve attended Next in the past, you know that breakouts are also core to our program. We’ll have more than 40 security breakout sessions covering today’s pressing security topics including cloud security and governance, frontline threat intelligence, enterprise compliance and resilience, AI risk management, and incident response.

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the key breakout sessions on the agenda:

• Securing your AI deployments, from creation to consumption: Learn how to build secure AI systems from the ground up and protect your AI models from attacks.

• Route, reduce, redact: Managing your security data pipeline: Dive into the new data pipeline management capabilities of Google SecOps and learn how to transform security data to manage scale, reduce costs, and satisfy compliance mandates.

• Got identity? Learn to love IAM: Master Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control access to your cloud resources and prevent unauthorized access.

• Stop data exfiltration with cloud-first security controls: Discover how to prevent sensitive data from leaving your organization's control.

• Unlocking OT security: Threat intelligence for critical industries: Learn how advanced threat intelligence enables organizations to move from reactive to proactive defense strategies. 

• AI security and APIs: Addressing the OWASP top 10 LLM and API risks: Understand the top security risks for large language models (LLMs) and APIs, and learn how to mitigate them.

• Strengthen cloud security posture, detect threats, and mitigate risks with Security Command Center: Use Google Cloud's Security Command Center to gain comprehensive visibility into your security posture and respond to threats effectively.

• Best practices for SIEM migration and ditching dinosaurs: In this panel, experts will share insights and best practices from their own SIEM migration journeys.

• Keep AI secrets safe with Confidential Computing: Explore confidential computing techniques to protect your sensitive data and AI models in use.

• Protect Internet-facing web, API, and gen AI services from attacks: Secure your web applications, APIs, and generative AI services from a wide range of threats.

• There’s no place like Chrome for advanced data protection and threat intelligence: Learn how Chrome's security features can protect your users and your organization from cyberattacks.

Dedicated security executive program

Our CISO Connect for Leaders is dedicated programming designed to equip CISOs and other security leaders with insights and strategies they need to navigate the evolving threat landscape and build a security-first culture. If you would like to be considered for participation in this executive program at Next ‘25, contact your Google Cloud account representative.

Don't miss out

Next ‘25 is the ideal opportunity for everyone in your organization to learn about how Google Cloud can help keep them safe as they move forward in the AI era. You can also earn continuing professional education credits for your certifications.

Next '25 will take place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, April 9 to 11, 2025. Early bird pricing is available for $999 — but space is limited, so register soon.

Elevate your security game at Next '25. Register today, and stay tuned for more updates and information on our security programming.