In this report, they we anticipate malicious actors will continue their rapid adoption of AI-based tools to augment and assist their online operations across various phases of the attack lifecycle. We expect to see cyber espionage and cyber crime actors continue to leverage deepfakes for identity theft, fraud, and bypassing know-your-customer (KYC) security requirements. As AI capabilities become more widely available throughout 2025, enterprises will increasingly struggle to defend themselves against these more frequent and effective compromises.

The Google Cloud Cybersecurity Forecast 2024 report predicted that cyber criminals and nation-state cyber operators will more heavily leverage server-less technologies within the cloud because it offers greater scalability, flexibility, and can be deployed using automated tools. The report focuses on recommendations for mitigating risks and improving cloud security for cloud security leaders and practitioners.

In the M-Trends 2024 report it features data and other security metrics that readers have come to expect, highlights zero-day use by espionage and financially-motivated attackers, and dives deep into evasive actions conducted particularly by Chinese espionage groups. we share our learnings with the greater security community, building on our dedication to providing critical knowledge to those tasked with defending organizations. The information in this report has been sanitized to protect the identities of victims and their data.

This iteration of the Google Cloud Threat Horizons Report provides a forward-thinking view of cloud security with intelligence on emerging threats and actionable recommendations from Google’s security experts. This report explores top cloud threats and security concerns for 2024, including credential abuse, crypto-mining, ransomware, and data theft.

The Threat Horizons Report will continue to highlight advanced threats to the cloud, sophisticated attack campaigns, and novel techniques used to target victims in the cloud. By focusing on good cloud hygiene, defenders will raise the bar necessary for attackers to be successful while reducing the risk of becoming a victim to a common attack.

This year’s research explored three key outcomes and the capabilities that contribute to achieving those outcomes: Organizational performance, team performance and employee well-being. The research also explored means or performance measures that we often talk about like ends-in-themselves: software delivery performance and operational performance.

For the last eight years, we’ve produced the State of DevOps report, hearing from over 33,000 professionals worldwide. We’ve outlined the DevOps practices that drive successful software delivery and operational performance, with a deep focus on security for the 2022 report.

The report is based on threat intelligence observations from the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), Google Cloud Threat Intelligence for Chronicle, Trust and Safety, and other internal teams. It provides actionable intelligence that enables organizations to ensure their cloud environments are best protected against ever evolving threats. In this and future threat intelligence reports, Google will provide threat horizon scanning, trend tracking, and Early Warning announcements about emerging threats requiring immediate action.

Our State of Cloud Threat Detection and Response report summaries the survey responses of 400 security leaders and SecOps practitioners in North America regarding the capabilities, practices, and behaviors of protecting against, identifying, and remediating cloud-based threats. The report looks at the differences between cloud threats detection and response behaviors and their on-premises counterparts, and the connection between cloud transformation and security transformation. We conclude with guidance on how to incorporate these lessons into your company’s current operations and considerations for the future.

The Google Cloud Threat Horizons Report brings decision-makers strategic intelligence on threats to cloud enterprise users and the best original cloud-relevant research and security recommendations from throughout Google’s intelligence and security teams.

The Google Cloud Threat Horizons Report brings decision-makers strategic intelligence on current and likely future threats to cloud enterprise users and the best original cloud-relevant research and security recommendations from across Google’s intelligence and security teams.

This report investigates the ways in which organizations can support engineering productivity through initiatives such as supporting information search, more usable deployment toolchains, and reducing technical debt through flexible architecture, code maintainability, and viewable systems.