Author:
Megan DeBlois, Product Manager • Engineering - Google Threat Intel
In an era where genAI has fundamentally altered attack economics, the traditional security mantra of "find and fix" is no longer enough. Adversaries now have access to capable AI tooling to automate reconnaissance and exploit vulnerabilities with staggering efficiency—achieving success rates as high as 87% at a fraction of the cost of human attackers [source].
To help our customers stay ahead of this curve, we are announcing our new target technology watchlists within Google Threat Intelligence to xx.
Strategic Value: From High Volume to High Focus
Alert prioritization is paramount to countering the ‘find and fix’ problem, but organizations must also move beyond this reactive mindset. We have an industry imperative to transform vulnerability operations ‘beyond the patch’ and move into an assume breach and hunt model with intel-driven alerting optimized for agentic action like threat hunting at machine scale.
Target technology watchlists in Google Threat Intelligence enables:
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Strategic focus: Track relevant threats based on your unique technology stack, driving focus around what matters most to your organization.
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Risk-based noise reduction: Prioritize vulnerabilities that are actually being exploited in the wild or have active evidence adversaries are attempting to leverage to accelerate targeted remediation based on risk.
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Proactive tracking: Continuous monitoring shouldn't stop at your immediate perimeter or even within your tech stack; extend tracking to common industry software and critical third-party technology vendors.
How It Works: Target Technology Watchlists
Target technology watchlists are part of our broader vision for Attack Surface Intelligence – a way to execute a risk-based security program that brings together an understanding of your exposures with Google’s industry leading threat visibility.
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Map your technology footprint: Track critical technologies that matter most to your organization because they are in your stack, are heavily utilized by your vendors, or are common technologies in your industry vertical.
- Configure for precision alerting: Set custom alert thresholds powered by Google’s proprietary Vulnerability Intelligence context—such as Risk Rating and Exploitation State—to silence the noise of irrelevant CVEs.
- Intel enriched alerting: Contextualize every match with active and relevant threat context starting with vulnerabilities, but expanding with our next iterations to correlation of actors, campaigns, and malware associations from Google Threat Intelligence, alongside trusted reports by Mandiant and industry experts.
- Automate response actions: Use our unified Google Threat Intelligence alerting API to seamlessly ingest alerts into your existing workflows, allowing you to automatically track patches or trigger proactive threat-hunting guides. Here is an example of an agentic skills pipeline leveraging the API that could be built to scale workflows.
Beyond the Patch: Scaling Proactive Threat Hunting with AI Agents
With Google Threat Intelligence, we want every customer to scale beyond human speed and uplevel their team’s ability to use intelligence to proactively hunt. In a world of AI-enabled threats,, a patch-only strategy is a losing game; proactive hunt and detection is the surest path to ensure we maintain resilience within every security program.
By shifting the advantage back to the defender through intelligence-led outcomes, Google Cloud is helping to ensure that your security posture is as dynamic as the threats you face.
Ready to proactively track and action vulnerabilities through the lens of Google Threat Intelligence? Contact us for a demo.
