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Title: Chief Information Security Officer Company: Google Cloud Industry: Technology

Chris stepped into the CISO role at Google Cloud in 2026 after serving as Google’ s VP of Infrastructure Security. The move puts large-scale infrastructure protection at the centre of a security landscape where cloud, software supply chains and AI increasingly overlap. Chris has argued that AI is changing the economics of vulnerability management: tasks that once took teams months can now be accelerated dramatically with multiple AI models. His response is to use automation as a force multiplier, backed by strong controls and human judgement. Chris has outlined lessons from Google’ s AI Threat Defense work and what boards need to understand about AI security. The through-line is pragmatic: use AI for defence while retaining the context and oversight needed to deploy it safely. It is a role at the intersection of infrastructure, security and an increasingly automated threat landscape.

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