Google Turns to AI, Machine Learning to Improve Cloud Security

Today's topics include Google improving its cloud platform security and introducing new IoT options, and Apple issuing a software update to fix a throttling glitch in its new MacBook Pros. At its Google Cloud Next conference on July 25, Google declared security as the top concern of enterprise customers. To that end, Garrick Toubassi, Google's vice president of engineering for G Suite, said his company is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to block so-called "bad messages" and display a warning for suspicious messages. Google is also adding a confidential mode that lets users add restrictions to email. Also at the conference, Google announced an enterprise version of Google Voice to be integrated with G Suite, which lets administrators manage users, provision and port phone numbers, access detailed reports and set up call routing functionality.