On Tuesday, Google LLC announced that Google Public Sector has been granted authority to operate at top-secret security levels, marking a major step forward in the company’s partnership with the federal government.
“Google and the Google Cloud Platform are a zero trust architecture,” he said Karen Dahut (In the photo), CEO of Google Public Sector at Google. “We are the pioneers in the area of zero trust. Our entire architecture is based on Zero Trust. When I say that Google Cloud has all commercial Zero Trust technologies built in, I mean it. It’s built into the DNA of our company.”
Dahut spoke to theCUBE Research analysts Juan Furrier And Cardigan knight In Google Cloud is coming in 2024, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio. They discussed the importance of cloud security and how generative AI impacts the public sector. (*Disclosure below.)
Implementing generative AI in the public sector
Because of security barriers and required security clearances, progress in implementing new technologies in government programs can appear slow. However, according to Dahut, generative AI could prove transformative.
“We have been integrating generative AI and artificial intelligence into all of our products for a long time,” he said. “From surveys we conduct with state and local governments as well as our federal politicians, we know that they have already worked with generative AI. They see this as a turning point for themselves. “They want to adopt it quickly and try to implement it as quickly as possible.”
Although commercial enterprises and the public sector are often perceived as very different entities, they share many of the same use cases, including automation and personal assistants. However, Dahut says government employees can sometimes be hampered by outdated technology and budget constraints.
“Do [employees] Do you want to make a difference? 100%. Do you find it easy to do that? “It’s not as easy as it should be,” he explained. “But generational AI applications to make a difference in the workforce, customers and product development are widespread. I think the one thing we need to pay attention to is very clearly that there is bad intentions on the part of our nation-state threat actors and that we need to make sure that our products are fundamentally secure, integrated and not bolted together.”
In addition to providing security, Google can also use generic AI to help government employees decrypt older databases. One example is when Google helped the New York State Department of Labor overcome a backlog in unemployment benefits during the pandemic.
“The applications of generative AI in the public sector are broad and massive,” Dahut said. “I think generative AI makes a big difference: you don’t have to dismantle and replace technology. You can leverage existing legacy technologies. It can leverage existing data warehouses.”
Partnerships with other companies will continue to be an integral part of Google Public Sector’s success, said Dahut, who highlighted Google’s recent purchase of Mandiant, a security company, and its partnership with Accenture PLC.
“Our job is to educate, it is to show, not tell how [gen AI] “It can be really effective,” he said, “and then make a difference in the lives of government workers and citizens.”
Here’s the full video interview, part of coverage from SiliconANGLE and theCUBE Research Google Cloud is coming in 2024:
(*Disclosure: Google sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Google nor other sponsors have editorial control over the content of theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)