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A patient calls your privacy office and requests an accounting of every disclosure of her PHI made outside treatment, payment, and healthcare operations over the past six years. This is her right under HIPAA. Your privacy officer pulls the EHR disclosure log. It is complete through the day your organization deployed its first production AI agent.

Cloud environments create a flood of security signals, often reaching tens of thousands per day depending on the organization’s size. Security engineers and analysts spend a disproportionate share of their time triaging these signals instead of acting on legitimate threats. But the time-intensive parts of that work, such as identifying related signals and building a timeline, can be handled systematically, leaving teams free to focus on what actually requires human judgment.

As AI adoption accelerates on Google Cloud, the challenge for most teams today is no longer just building AI-powered applications. It’s also managing the full AI stack from end to end, including data pipelines, infrastructure, release process, and security operations. Many teams are monitoring these layers with different tools, creating complexity, fragmenting visibility, and slowing decisions on what to do next.

If you are not using AI to defend against AI, you will lose. But for organizations operating in air-gapped environments, the path to AI-driven defense can be blocked by the very isolation that protects them. Today, we're announcing that Elastic Security is now the embedded security layer for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped environments, expanding our collaboration with Google Cloud.

I was on ABC News recently discussing why banks are on alert as new AI systems like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos raise cybersecurity concerns. What struck me most is how quickly the conversation has shifted. This is no longer a hypothetical risk or something we are planning for in the future. Financial institutions and regulators are reacting in real time to what AI is already capable of doing. From my perspective, we are still underestimating how fast this is moving.

SafeBreach Helm is a pioneering AI agent designed to operationalize the complete Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) lifecycle by unifying SafeBreach’s industry-leading adversarial exposure validation (AEV) capabilities with data and insights from across an organization’s existing security ecosystem.