Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises

What happened

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We’re staging initial access to government and enterprise partners most critical to society’s resilience: To ensure these powerful AI capabilities are used responsibly, participating organizations agree to strict operational standards, including limiting access to employees within their internal cybersecurity, incident response, or penetration testing teams and deploying protections like multi-factor authentication. 8 Flash Cyber into practice: The Fairwind Program will evolve alongside our partners and users' needs.

We will adapt our product offerings and expand partner access, collaborating closely with industry, governments, and open-weight community leaders to strike the right balance between open access and robust security.

Why it matters

Generative AI is experimental Defenders wanting to use advanced AI have faced a difficult dilemma: adopt enormous frontier models that could be expensive to deploy and difficult to control across enterprise codebases, or turn to smaller open-weight models that might struggle with complex vulnerability remediation and require teams to build their own tooling and infrastructure from scratch. Until now.

Today, we’re launching our Fairwind Program to bring the best of Google’s AI and cyber defense capabilities to a trusted group of Google Cloud customers, government agencies, and cybersecurity partners, to help them proactively solve cyber risks at scale.

As a first step, the Fairwind Program will give defenders access to powerful and advanced Gemini models to help them autonomously find and fix vulnerabilities, protecting critical infrastructure, public services, and national security. 8 Flash Cyber, with our CodeMender harness, to help defenders find, verify, and fix vulnerabilities at agentic scale. Spotting weaknesses creates awareness and fear; autonomously finding and fixing vulnerabilities delivers security.

8 Flash Cyber delivers the specialized reasoning to write and validate code fixes, at a fraction of the operating cost of traditional frontier models. Instead of taking weeks to manually fix vulnerabilities, defenders can now generate verified, deployment-ready patches in minutes — within an organization’s secure cloud environment.

Providing early access to these powerful cyber capabilities gives trusted defenders a vital adaptation window to harden their systems before bad actors have a chance to exploit new capabilities.

What to watch

8 Flash Cyber access for customers in the Fairwind Program, any Google Cloud customer can proactively secure their code by using CodeMender with publicly available models hosted on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, in combination with industry-leading solutions offered through AI Threat Defense.

Years of Google’s pioneering zero-trust architecture, advanced AI defenses, and built-in security allow us to protect billions of accounts daily – keeping more people and organizations safe online than anyone else. The Fairwind Program builds on this experience and is part of our broader commitment to global cyber resilience across the entire digital ecosystem, including helping to fortify grassroots cyber defense. org, our latest commitment brings our total cybersecurity funding to more than $100 million globally. S.