Cloud CISO Perspectives : Our Big Sleep agent makes a big leap, and other AI news
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2025. Today, Sandra Joyce, vice president, Google Threat Intelligence, talks about an incredible milestone with our Big Sleep AI agent, as well as other news from the intersection of security and AI.
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Business leaders everywhere are scrambling to implement AI in a way that creates value while trying to define what that value means — at the same time. As we build on our efforts to shape AI and define AI workflows in cybersecurity, we are already really excited about using AI in the work that we do.
I spoke about some of that work at the RSA Conference in April, including how AI is reshaping cybersecurity and how Google uses data to drive our practical applications of AI in both attack and defense. We revealed Tuesday that our Big Sleep AI agent, first introduced in November 2024 by Google DeepMind and Project Zero, has taken a very significant step for defenders: We believe this is the first time an AI agent has been used to directly foil efforts to exploit a vulnerability in the wild.
