Palo Alto Networks, Google Cloud Expand Cloud & AI Initiatives

Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud have recently announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to enable the secure development and deployment of AI solutions, while providing a foundation for organizations to use AI.

A new phase of the partnership

The Palo Alto Networks-Google Cloud collaboration combines Google Cloud’s AI and infrastructure capabilities with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma AIRS, a comprehensive AI security platform.

“Every board is asking how to harness AI’s power without exposing the business to new threats,” said Palo Alto Networks President BJ Jenkins. “This partnership answers that question. We’re removing the friction between security and development, providing a unified platform where the most advanced security is simply a native part of building what’s next. Together with Google, we are embedding our AI-powered security deep into the Google Cloud fabric, turning the platform itself into a proactive defense system.”

AI infrastructure sees security boost through new deal

This agreement works to secure AI infrastructure via an enhanced go-to-market strategy and building security into every layer of hybrid multicloud infrastructure, every application development stage, and every endpoint. 

This will enable businesses to innovate with advanced AI while protecting their IP and data in the cloud.

Among the benefits of this partnership are:

• End-to-end AI security from code to cloud: Customers can protect live AI workloads and data on Google Cloud with Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS. By securing key developer tools like the Agent Development Kit (ADK) with Prisma AIRS, the expanded collaboration ensures a secure foundation for the next generation of AI applications built on Google Cloud, including AI Posture Management for visibility, AI Runtime Security for real-time defense, AI Agent Security for autonomous systems, AI Red Teaming for proactive testing, and AI Model Security for vulnerability scanning.
• AI-driven, next-gen software firewall (SWFW): Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewalls secure public, private, and hybrid cloud, along with virtualized environments by providing deep packet inspection and Threat Prevention in a software form factor. Deep integrations with Google Cloud will enable customers to maintain security policies and accelerate Google Cloud adoption.
• AI-driven secure access service edge (SASE) platform: With Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access running on Google’s network, it improves the user experience as users access cloud and AI applications that run on Google Cloud. It also leverages Google Cloud Interconnect to help customers connect their WAN infrastructure across multiple clouds/applications and maintain consistent security policies.
• Simplified and unified security experience: The two companies’ alignment ensures customer solutions are pre-vetted and engineered to work together, removing the integration challenges and operational friction that slow security teams. The combination allows customers to deploy protection faster, simplify compliance, and gain a single, comprehensive view of security across their entire hybrid multicloud environment.

Palo Alto commits to Google Gemini and Google Cloud workloads

“Enterprises are increasingly turning to Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks to secure their applications and data – together and in a seamless way,” said Matt Renner, president and chief revenue officer at Google Cloud. “This latest expansion of our partnership will ensure that our joint customers have access to the right solutions to secure their most critical AI infrastructure and develop new AI agents with security built in from the start.”

Further, Palo Alto Networks is expanding its commitment to running its security platforms on Google Cloud’s secure, trust AI infrastructure by migrating key internal workloads under a new multibillion-dollar agreement.

Additionally, Palo Alto Networks is now using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform and Gemini LLMs to power its copilots.

Palo Alto Networks has been on a partnership kick in recent months, announcing a joint solution recently with IBM on a quantum-safe readiness solution. Read more about the solution and how it will help enterprises identify cryptographic exposure.