Google Opens Safety Engineering Centre In Hyderabad To Boost Cybersecurity Efforts

Google Safety Engineering Centre, India (GSEC India) was inaugurated here on Wednesday. This is the first such facility to be launched in the Asia-Pacific region and the fourth globally.

Telangana Chief Minister Anumula Revanth Reddy inaugurated the facility along with IT Minister D Sridhar Babu.

It marks a pivotal milestone in the company's commitment to securing India's digital future. GSEC in India will serve as the operational heart where strategic commitments transform into tangible solutions, Google officials said.

The centre represents a unique convergence of Google's global safety expertise, bringing together teams focused on privacy and security engineering, and advanced cybersecurity capabilities under one strategic umbrella to address India's distinct digital landscape.

Revanth Reddy, in his inaugural address, said the state government has already collaborated with Google and works jointly in many areas like Education, Security, Maps, Traffic, Startups, Health, etc.

"Google's corporate philosophy of 'Do No Evil ' is widely appreciated. Like Google, my strong belief is that my government is committed to the well-being of people through good deeds. We need to focus on drawing good results in the long term since our philosophy will not derive results in a short time," Reddy said.

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He further said Google set up its first office in Hyderabad in 2007 during Congress rule, and around 7,000 employees are working in the Hyderabad Google office and consider the city as their hometown.

Reiterating that Telangana aims to become a USD 3 trillion economy by 2047, Reddy said the present contribution of the state to the national GDP would be doubled to 10 per cent by then from the existing five per cent.

Preeti Lobana, Country Manager and Vice President, Google India, said, "For India's digital engine to keep growing and powering its ambitious future, we must keep building trust in how users and enterprises access the digital landscape".

"With the inauguration of GSEC India today, we are bringing our global experience and expertise—from cutting-edge AI to foundational cybersecurity and user protection—to realise this commitment. Safety is a shared responsibility and this launch is a call for the entire ecosystem to come together and collaborate to make the entire chain stronger and smarter," she added.

GSEC India will operationalise the three foundational pillars of Google's Safety Charter—keeping end users safe from online fraud and scams, strengthening cybersecurity for government and enterprise infrastructure, and building AI responsibly—while serving as a regional hub for developing solutions across the broader APAC region, the press release said.

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