Tata Consultancy Services on Tuesday, September 3, said it has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to launch AI-powered cybersecurity solutions to deal with advanced threats.

The two cybersecurity solutions are TCS Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution is powered by Google Security Operations and the TCS Secure Cloud Foundation.

The MDR solution is powered by the Google Security Operations platform and will enable security teams to reduce the time needed to detect and respond to threats. It will also enable continuous security monitoring and round-the-clock response, the company said.

The TCS Secure Cloud Foundation will leverage the capabilities from Google Cloud’s security solutions to strengthen cloud security posture and governenace across single, multi and hybrid cloud environments by embedding security and compliance guardrails throughout the DevSecOps lifecycle, TCS said. It added that by leveraging AI, machine learning and automation, the solution continuously monitors risks, identifies deviations and recommends remedial actions.

“This partnership brings together the best of capabilities, contextual knowledge, and accelerators from TCS and Google Cloud to holistically protect the digital estates of enterprise customers, to help them be future-ready, cyber resilient businesses,” Ganesa Subramanian, VP and global head cybersecurity business group, TCS, said.

TCS said it has already deployed both solutions successfully to several clients.

“TCS’s expanded partnership with Google Cloud provides two unique, AI-powered, cross-industry, enterprise solutions to help our clients combat advanced cybersecurity threats,” Nidhi Srivastava, vice-president and executive champion for Google Cloud, TCS, said.

The TCS and Google Cloud partnership spans a decade. TCS said the new phase of this partnership will focus on leveraging Google Cloud’s AI-powered security portfolio across threat intelligence,s ecurity operations and cloud security.

“Together, we can help customer organisations dramatically improve their security pasture and ability to respond to threats in real time,” Peter Bailey, vice-president and general manager of security operations, Google Cloud, said.

TCS shares were down 0.11% at ₹4,516 apiece at 11.50 am. The stock has gained 18.48% this year, so far.

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