Google Workspace has announced new initiatives to help protect businesses around the world as the threat landscape continues to evolve.
The company announced at Google Cloud Next 24 that it will launch a new AI Security add-on for Google Workspace subscriptions, offering a number of services and tools aimed at protecting organizations from the latest threats.
The new add-on is now available for $10 per user per month and includes a range of the company’s latest breakthroughs when it comes to dealing with threats at all levels, up to quantum security issues.
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Google says the launch comes as generative AI continues to grow and expand, with the security industry seeing great innovation on both sides.
It noted that both Gmail and Workspace have long been at the forefront of dealing with security threats thanks to their cloud-native architecture and embrace of zero-trust principles.
The new expansion uses large language models to block an additional 20% more spam in Gmail, and makes it possible to evaluate “1000 times” more user-reported spam in Gmail every day.
It also includes new security tools that allow IT teams to automatically classify and protect sensitive files across an entire company’s Google Drive platform.
The platform uses “privacy-preserving AI models” that can be trained using data unique to a specific organization, keeping all employees safe by enabling continuous evaluation, classification, and protection of existing and new files in Drive.
Elsewhere, the company also revealed that it would extend DLP checks and classification labels to Gmail as part of a new beta, and work with partners such as Thales and Fortanix to add experimental support for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) in client-side encryption to protect your most sensitive data from quantum computer attacks.