Deloitte has announced cyber-security collaborations with Google Cloud and Rubrik to help organisations modernise risk management and prepare for generative AI (genAI).

This initiative intends to help organisations transform and scale their cyber technologies, harness the power of AI, streamline processes and build resilience, by combining Deloitte’s industry-specific experience with technology capabilities to create secure enterprises of the future.

According to the Deloitte 2025 Technology Industry Outlook (www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/technology/technology-media-telecom-outlooks/technology-industry-outlook.html), cyber security is expected to be a critical tech priority as the attack surface continues to widen, driven by the IoT, genAI and cloud computing. However, despite making significant investments in security technologies, many businesses continue to struggle with how technological advancements are reshaping their organisations, along with skills gaps in the workforce and navigating multiple security tools and vendors.

Concurrently, as organisations update their business and technology models, they will need to operate differently than in past decades. For example, software may no longer be exclusively developed by humans but written partially or fully by an AI agent. While this type of business transformation is critical for creating competitive advantage and customer satisfaction, it also opens the door to new cyber risks. To defend against emerging threats, organisations need to align cyber transformation with their business strategy.

“As the digital landscape shifts dynamically, Deloitte Cyber is working with leading technology companies, including Google Cloud and Rubrik, to help organisations secure the modern enterprise and transform their cyber-security programmes to keep pace with the use of emerging technologies,” said Adnan Amjad from Deloitte & Touche. “With these collaborations and each company’s leading capabilities, Deloitte is preparing enterprises to be future-ready with secure and resilient options to enable next-generation AI capabilities across their IT stack, ultimately strengthening their cyber posture now and beyond.”

To begin acting as enterprises of the future, organisations and leaders should look to keep pace with the rapidly evolving cyber threat environment and use the power of emerging technologies to do more than defend their businesses.

To do this, Deloitte is working with Google Cloud to help organisations defend with AI and simplify cyber capabilities by streamlining multiple cyber technologies and processes. Deloitte’s approach starts with the implementation of Unified Security from Google Cloud, bringing together core security capabilities tailored to shared customers’ threat profiles and industry threat landscape. This is further augmented with the deployment of bespoke AI chatbots and agentic workflows that harness the speed and scale of Unified Security’s and AgentSpace technologies to enable rapid triage and automated response.

“Cyber threats are in constant evolution, presenting new security challenges every day,” said Peter Bailey, vice president at Google Cloud (cloud.google.com). “Deloitte’s integrated security services, built on their vast industry and sector experience, pair with Google Cloud’s unified security stack [Unified Security] to help enterprises simplify their cyber infrastructure and rapidly adopt emerging agentic capabilities such as Gemini for secops and Google AgentSpace to dramatically improve security operations productivity and efficacy.”

In addition, Deloitte is collaborating with California-based Rubrik to offer integrated cyber resilience services that combine data, identity and cyber recovery. This collaboration blends Deloitte’s experience in cyber defence with Rubrik’s cyber resilience offerings and data recovery capabilities. Together, Deloitte and Rubrik aim to support integrating resilience into the fabric of enterprise operations with client-delivered services, including resilience assessment, recovery architecture, secure vault implementation, recovery testing and data protection.

“According to Rubrik’s 2024 Zero Labs report, 94% of IT and security executives reported cyber attacks in the past year, showing that it’s not a matter of if, but when, cyber attacks will occur,” said Ghazal Asif, vice president at Rubrik (www.rubrik.com). “When these events strike, it is critical that businesses and organisations are resilient enough to continue operating, and that critical infrastructure remains available. Our collaboration with Deloitte will help accelerate the path to building a stronger cyber posture for enterprises as they continue to embed new technologies and processes into their day-to-day operations.”

Deloitte (www.deloitte.com) provides audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to nearly 90% of the Fortune 500 and more than 8500 US-based private companies.