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Bulgaria's National Cybershield — a Google Cloud-Backed Federated SOC Across 54 Government Entities

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State-owned Information Services is onboarding 54 Bulgarian government bodies onto an AI-driven, Google Cloud-built federated Security Operations Centre, part of an EU-backed push to harden the bloc's eastern border against cyber and information threats.

Bulgaria's National Cybershield — a Google Cloud-Backed Federated SOC Across 54 Government Entities

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Promoter
Information Services AD (Информационно обслужване) with Google Cloud
Period
2026–present
Keywords
public sector, cybersecurity, national security, digital government

Description

Bulgaria's state-owned IT and security provider, Information Services AD, partnered with Google Cloud to launch an AI-powered "National Cybershield", using Google Cloud Security Operations to give a centralised, federated view of threats across the public sector.

The rollout, announced in May 2026, is designed to bring 54 government entities into the shared, federated security-operations centre, with EU funding supporting the effort as part of a wider regional mandate to secure the EU's eastern border against cyber and hybrid threats.

As a newly announced, vendor-partnered programme, independent evidence of the system's detection accuracy or operational impact is not yet public, and its threat-intelligence methodology is proprietary. Bulgaria has separately been an early mover on public-sector AI, including a sovereign-language-model tax tool at its National Revenue Agency, but that is a distinct initiative from this cybersecurity platform.

Read the full analysis: https://www.therecursive.com/ai-national-security-and-a-country-moving-at-two-speeds/

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