Google opens Asia Pacific's first safety center in Hyderabad to address AI fraud and cybercrime; CM Revanth Reddy applauds Telangana's rise in technology
HYDERABAD: Tech giant Google unveiled its first safety engineering centre (GSEC) in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region and its fourth globally after Munich, Dublin, and Malaga (Spain), in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
GSEC India is housed within what is Google's largest base outside the US and was also its first port of call in India in 2004.
An official statement said that GSEC India will not only address the rapidly evolving threat landscape in India, which is projected to face cybercrime losses of up to Rs 20,000 crore by 2025, but will also serve as a global hub of safety innovation driven by a combination of AI-powered threat detection, ecosystem collaboration, and policy measures.
Heather Adkins, vice president of engineering at Google Security, said that GSEC India will serve as a global lighthouse for their digital safety and security efforts. She said that Google has been investing in security and safety teams in Hyderabad over the years and will be looking at investing in hiring the best talent for the center, which is learned to have started with around 200-250 engineers.
Pivotal moment in T's journey as a cybersecurity hub: Revanth
The center will primarily focus on keeping end users safe from online fraud and scams, strengthening cybersecurity for government and enterprise infrastructure, and building artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly.
It will deploy advanced AI and large language models (LLMs) to power real-time scam alerts on Android, strengthen Google Play Protect, and enhance fraud detection.
GSEC India will also address AI-driven deception through adversarial testing, AI-assisted red teaming, and tools like SynthID to watermark AI-generated content while focusing on ecosystem collaboration and intelligence sharing through platforms like the Global Signals Exchange (GSE). It will also advance research in areas like Post-Quantum Cryptography through partnerships with academia.
Flagging off the facility, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy said that this first-of-its-kind center in the Asia-Pacific marks a pivotal moment in Telangana's journey as a global cybersecurity innovation hub.
Google and Hyderabad are old friends... Google today has nearly 7,000 Googlers who call Hyderabad their home," he said, pointing out that the new center affirms Hyderabad's crucial role in developing privacy, safety, and cyber-defense solutions and will attract top-tier safety engineering talent to the state. He said the Telangana government was focused on growing to a $1 trillion economy by 2035 and a $3 trillion economy by 2047. "Our population is 2.5% of India's population but contributes 5% to its GDP. By 2047 we want to contribute 10% to India's GDP.
IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu said that GSEC India demonstrates the power of public-private partnerships in building a secure digital infrastructure and will serve as a catalyst for innovation in areas critical to India's vision of becoming a global tech leader.
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