KPMG’s U.S. member firm is rolling out a set of cybersecurity services that will use Google Cloud to help clients protect their IT infrastructure.

To support the launch, the Big Four member has joined the Alphabet unit’s Security Partner Program. The move comes about six months after KPMG committed $100 million to growing its Google Cloud practice. It disclosed at the time that bookings from the practice, which helps clients with not only cybersecurity but also tasks such as data analytics, had grown tenfold over the past two years.

KPMG’s new cybersecurity services cover multiple use cases. One is managed detection and response, an arrangement whereby a consultancy monitors a company’s network to find and remediate breaches. KPMG says that it will also help clients improve how they approach SecOps. This is a cybersecurity term that encompasses breach monitoring and response as well as certain related activities, such as finding unpatched software flaws in a corporate network.

KPMG’s new services will use a Google Cloud product called Google Security Operations. It’s a platform that can collect cybersecurity logs from a company’s IT infrastructure and analyze them to find breach indicators. The offering carries out the analysis with the help of Google’s Gemini AI models, which the company has also integrated into many other parts of its cloud portfolio. 

One of Google Security Operations’ selling points is a custom programming language called YARA-L. It can be used to write scripts that automatically scan cybersecurity logs for breach indicators. Another automation tool allows Google Security Operations to send a company’s other cybersecurity tools instructions on how to react to a newly discovered hacking attempt.

“Our goal is to help clients confidently navigate multi-cloud environments while safeguarding their valuable data and applications with some of the most advanced AI tools available today,” said KPMG advisory principal Steve Barlock.

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