Hyderabad, June 18 -- Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy inaugurated a new Google Safety Engineering Centre (GSEC) at Divyasree Omega Towers in Kondapur, Hyderabad, on Wednesday, July 18. Telangana information technology minister D Sridhar Babu was also present on the occasion.

The GSEC is the first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region and the fourth internationally. Hyderabad joins the likes of Germany's Munich, Ireland's Dublin, and Spain's Malaga as Google opened its first GSEC outside of Europe.

Google stated that GSEC India will play a dual role, to address the growing cybercrime in the country, and to advance AI-based threat detection in a bid to become a centre of security innovation.

The GSEC in Hyderabad forms part of ...