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Beyond Zero: Google Publishes Successor to BeyondCorp

Renato Losio — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:40:00 GMT

In a recent research paper, Google introduced Beyond Zero, a “security model for the AI era” that extends Zero Trust to autonomous AI agents. The new approach moves access decisions from the application level to individual resources and actions, combining static authorization controls with dynamic AI-driven decisions to enable machine-speed enforcement for humans and agents.

By Renato Losio

Article: Eliminating Long-Lived Credentials in GCP with Workload Identity Federation

Shijin Nair — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Long-lived GCP service account keys are secrets that must be managed forever, are hard to rotate, and are easy to leak. Scaling Workload Identity Federation to 120+ production projects shows why it changes how machine identity is approached entirely: keys are secrets to manage, federated identities are trust relationships configured once, gated by attribute conditions.

By Shijin Nair

Google Cloud Launches AI-powered Agents to Simplify Database Lifecycle Management

Sergio De Simone — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Google Cloud has introduced AI-powered Database Operations Agents, featuring an Onboarding Agent that streamlines database setup and an Observability Agent that helps automate troubleshooting, performance optimization, and tuning. Integrated with Gemini Cloud Assist, these agents support multiple database services, including AlloyDB, Bigtable, and Spanner.

By Sergio De Simone