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Google patents AI system that picks best fix for cloud security breaches

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Google has patented a method that feeds activity logs from cloud devices into an AI model to detect security breaches. The system evaluates multiple potential fixes and automatically selects the one with the highest confidence of success before executing it.

Why it mattersThis approach aims to make cloud security responses faster and more reliable by using AI to choose the most effective countermeasure from a list of options.

In the filing’s own words

Methods and systems for security breach detection and mitigation in a cloud-based environment are provided herein. Event data associated with client devices of a cloud-based environment are provided as input to a trained artificial intelligence (AI) model. The event data indicates activities performed with respect to the client devices. One or more outputs of the AI model are obtained, the one or more outputs indicating activities, of the event data, that is indicative of a security breach, one or more security actions to be taken at the cloud-based environment in response to the activities, and for each of the one or more security actions, a level of confidence that a respective security action will mitigate the security breach. A security action having a level of confidence that satisfies a confidence criterion is determined. A set of operations to initiate the determined security action at the cloud-based environment is performed.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method comprising: providing event data associated with a plurality of client devices of a cloud-based environment as input to a trained artificial intelligence (AI) model, wherein the event data indicates activities performed with respect to the plurality of client devices; obtaining one or more outputs of the trained AI model, the one or more outputs indicating: a set of activities, of the activities indicated by the event data, performed with respect to at least one of the plurality of client devices that is indicative of a security breach, a plurality of security actions to be taken at the cloud-based environment in response to the set of activities, and for each of the plurality of security actions, a level of confidence indicating a likelihood that a respective security action will successfully mitigate the security breach; selecting, among the plurality of security actions, a security action based on a comparison of the respective levels of confidence of the plurality of security actions; and performing a set of operations to initiate the security action at the cloud-based environment.

Facts

Company
Google (Google LLC)
Official title
Security breach detection and mitigation in a cloud-based environment
Patent number
US12764129B2
Application number
18525261
Filed
Nov 30, 2023
Granted
Oct 13, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
20

Classified under

H04L 63/1416 Electricity & electronicsH04L 41/16 Electricity & electronicsH04L 63/1466 Electricity & electronics
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