Google Launches Fairwind Program to Automate Cyber Defense for Governments and Enterprises

Google Launches Fairwind Program to Automate Cyber Defense for Governments and Enterprises Google has announced the Fairwind Program, an initiative granting governments and select enterprise partners access to advanced AI tools to autonomously identify and patch software vulnerabilities. The Fairwind Program pairs the Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber model with the CodeMender harness to generate and verify code patches in minutes. Over 650 global partners across governments, critical infrastructure, and tech platforms are participating under strict access standards. Google.org's total cybersecurity funding now exceeds $100 million globally, including $36 million dedicated to 35 US cyber clinics. Autonomous Vulnerability Remediation The Fairwind Program integrates Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber model with its CodeMender harness. This setup allows defenders to autonomously discover, verify, and remediate vulnerabilities at a lower operating cost than standard frontier models, producing deployment-ready patches in minutes within an organization's secure cloud environment. Targeted Rollout and Security Standards Initial access is targeted at more than 650 global partners deemed essential to societal resilience, such as national cyber authorities, critical infrastructure operators, and foundational technology platforms. To ensure responsible deployment, participants must adhere to strict operational requirements, including enforcing multi-factor authentication and restricting access to internal cybersecurity, penetration testing, and incident response personnel. Broader Ecosystem Support While priority access to Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is held for Fairwind participants, other Google Cloud customers can use CodeMender alongside publicly available models on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Alongside this launch, Google.org reported that its global cybersecurity funding has surpassed $100 million, including $36 million deployed to 35 US cyber clinics serving schools, municipal utilities, and hospitals.

Google推出Fairwind计划以推进政府与企业的自主网络防御 Google宣布推出限制访问的Fairwind计划，向政府机构、关键基础设施运营方及可信合作伙伴提供先进的网络安全AI能力，以自主发现并修复漏洞，提升网络防御韧性。 Fairwind计划结合Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber模型与CodeMender框架，使漏洞修复补丁生成与验证时间从数周缩短至数分钟。 计划初期面向政府部门、关键基础设施运营方和核心技术平台等关键领域的合作伙伴开放，已有全球超过650个合作伙伴参与。 参与机构须遵守严格的操作标准，包括限制访问权限给内部网络安全相关团队并部署多因素身份验证。 通过Google.org，Google在全球的网络安全资助累计超过1亿美元，其中向35个网络诊所提供3600万美元支持。 自主漏洞发现与修复技术 长期以来，防守方在部署高成本前沿模型与难以处理复杂修复的轻量模型之间面临权衡。Fairwind计划结合了Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber模型和CodeMender测试框架，以较低运营成本提供专业的代码修复推理能力，帮助防守方在几分钟内于自身安全云环境中生成经过验证、可直接部署的补丁。 分阶段准入与责任使用规范 为了在攻击者利用新技术前巩固系统，该计划分阶段向政府与国家网络权威机构、关键基础设施运营方及核心技术平台开放。为确保AI技术负责任地使用，已有超过650家参与伙伴同意严格规范，包括仅限内部网络安全、事件响应或渗透测试团队访问，并强制部署多因素身份验证等防护措施。未加入该计划的Google Cloud客户也可通过Gemini Enterprise Agent平台上的公开模型结合CodeMender使用。 生态系统韧性与公益支持 除面向企业与政府的技术方案外，Google.org通过资金支持基层网络防御，其全球网络安全总资助金额已超过1亿美元。最新发布的2026年报告显示，该机构已累计出资3600万美元支持35个网络诊所，为美国超过1250家医院、公立学区及市政公用事业部门提供免费实操安全保障。

Sep 02, 2026 | Today, we’re launching our Fairwind Program, a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our most advanced cyber defense capabilities. Four Flynn Vice President - Security and Privacy Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Defenders wanting to use advanced AI have faced a difficult dilemma: adopt enormous frontier models that could be expensive to deploy and difficult to control across enterprise codebases, or turn to smaller open-weight models that might struggle with complex vulnerability remediation and require teams to build their own tooling and infrastructure from scratch. Until now. Today, we’re launching our Fairwind Program to bring the best of Google’s AI and cyber defense capabilities to a trusted group of Google Cloud customers, government agencies, and cybersecurity partners, to help them proactively solve cyber risks at scale. As a first step, the Fairwind Program will give defenders access to powerful and advanced Gemini models to help them autonomously find and fix vulnerabilities, protecting critical infrastructure, public services, and national security. Finding and autonomously fixing vulnerabilities The Fairwind Program offerings bring together our most advanced cyber model, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber , with our CodeMender harness, to help defenders find, verify, and fix vulnerabilities at agentic scale. Spotting weaknesses creates awareness and fear; autonomously finding and fixing vulnerabilities delivers security. CodeMender with Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber delivers the specialized reasoning to write and validate code fixes, at a fraction of the operating cost of traditional frontier models. Instead of taking weeks to manually fix vulnerabilities, defenders can now generate verified, deployment-ready patches in minutes — within an organization’s secure cloud environment. Scaling frontline defense Providing early access to these powerful cyber capabilities gives trusted defenders a vital adaptation window to harden their systems before bad actors have a chance to exploit new capabilities. We’re staging initial access to government and enterprise partners most critical to society’s resilience: Governments and national cyber authorities: Hardening public-sector networks and citizen services against targeted intrusions. Critical infrastructure operators: Protecting essential services across healthcare, telecommunications, energy, and financial networks from operational disruption. Core technology platforms: Securing widespread software foundations to uplift digital security for millions of downstream users at once. To ensure these powerful AI capabilities are used responsibly, participating organizations agree to strict operational standards, including limiting access to employees within their internal cybersecurity, incident response, or penetration testing teams and deploying protections like multi-factor authentication. We have more than 650 participating partners globally, including: What our Fairwind Program partners are saying Trusted defenders and industry leaders are already putting Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber into practice: The Fairwind Program will evolve alongside our partners and users' needs. We will adapt our product offerings and expand partner access, collaborating closely with industry, governments, and open-weight community leaders to strike the right balance between open access and robust security. While we are prioritizing Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber access for customers in the Fairwind Program, any Google Cloud customer can proactively secure their code by using CodeMender with publicly available models hosted on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, in combination with industry-leading solutions offered through AI Threat Defense . Making an ecosystem-scale impact on cyber defense Years of Google’s pioneering zero-trust architecture, advanced AI defenses, and built-in security allow us to protect billions of accounts daily – keeping more people and organizations safe online than anyone else. The Fairwind Program builds on this experience and is part of our broader commitment to global cyber resilience across the entire digital ecosystem, including helping to fortify grassroots cyber defense. Through Google.org , our latest commitment brings our total cybersecurity funding to more than $100 million globally. We’re pleased to release our 2026 Google.org US Cybersecurity Impact Report , which details $36 million in funding for 35 cyber clinics to date, providing free, hands-on security support to over 1,250 hospitals, public school districts, and municipal utilities in the U.S. Providing a security advantage The defender’s edge comes from shrinking the time between detecting a flaw and patching it. Through Google’s Fairwind Program, government and enterprise partners gain autonomous tools to repair systems faster and at scale, keeping them one step ahead of agentic-speed threats.