Google has launched its first Google Security Engineering Centre (GSEC) within the Asia-Pacific area in Hyderabad to assist India’s digital security infrastructure, making it solely the fourth such centre globally.
The power was inaugurated on Wednesday by Telangana CM Revanth Reddy, alongside state IT minister D Sridhar Babu and different high authorities officers.
The launch follows Google’s ‘Security Constitution’ for India’s AI-led transformation, which was unveiled on the Safer with Google Summit in Delhi on June 17. The GSEC will deal with three core areas: defending customers from on-line fraud, strengthening enterprise and authorities cybersecurity and constructing accountable AI options. It is usually set to function a regional hub for APAC to fight digital threats.
Utilizing AI and LLMs, the centre goals to deploy real-time rip-off alerts through Gemini Nano on Android, enhance fraud detection throughout providers like Pay, Search and Gmail, and enhance defences like Google Play Defend. It’ll additionally deal with AI misuse by way of adversarial testing, crimson teaming and watermarking instruments like SynthID.
Calling it a proud second for Telangana, Reddy praised Google’s moral philosophy and mentioned, “This centre will create jobs, foster abilities and enhance India’s cyber defence. Telangana is poised to develop into a trillion-dollar economic system by 2035.”
With over a billion web customers, India’s digital development comes with rising vulnerability. In accordance with Heather Adkins, founding member of the Google Safety Group, Google Pay alone prevented ₹13,000 crore price of economic fraud in 2023. But, the menace looms giant, with estimated cybercrime losses in India projected to hit ₹20,000 crore in 2025.
The federal government can also be on excessive alert. The Digital Risk Report 2024 famous a 175% rise in phishing assaults on banking and monetary providers, whereas over half of enterprise e mail compromise instances now contain AI-generated deepfakes. The CERT-In cybersecurity company has responded with nationwide cyber drills and a cyber disaster administration plan, having tackled over 14 lakh incidents in 2022 alone.
Wilson White, Google’s VP for public coverage, highlighted that Asia-Pacific is now the epicentre of digital scams, accounting for two-thirds of worldwide fraud losses—$688 billion in 2023. “AI might help detect 20 instances extra rip-off pages and remove thousands and thousands of pretend listings,” he mentioned.
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