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Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud have announced a major expansion of their strategic partnership aimed at helping organizations securely accelerate cloud and artificial intelligence initiatives, as enterprises increasingly adopt agentic AI and hybrid multicloud environments.

The agreement combines Google Cloud’s AI and infrastructure capabilities with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma® AIRS™, its comprehensive AI security platform, to enable the secure development, deployment and operation of next-generation AI solutions. The collaboration is designed to embed security across every layer of cloud infrastructure, application development and endpoint environments.

According to Palo Alto Networks’ State of Cloud Report 2025, enterprises are rapidly expanding cloud usage to support new AI applications, with 99 per cent of surveyed organizations reporting at least one attack on their AI infrastructure in the past year. The expanded partnership seeks to address these challenges by integrating security directly into AI and cloud workflows, allowing organizations to innovate while safeguarding intellectual property and sensitive data.

Under the new phase of collaboration, customers will gain access to end-to-end AI security from code to cloud. Prisma AIRS will secure live AI workloads and data on Google Cloud, including services such as Vertex AI and Agent Engine. Developer tools such as the Agent Development Kit will also be protected, enabling secure AI application development with capabilities such as AI posture management, real-time runtime defense, AI agent security, red teaming and model vulnerability scanning.

The partnership also introduces deeper integrations for Palo Alto Networks’ AI-driven software firewall, including the VM-Series, enabling consistent security policies and faster Google Cloud adoption across public, private and hybrid environments. In addition, Prisma SASE will provide AI-driven secure access for remote users, branch offices and mobile devices, while Prisma Access will operate on Google’s network to enhance user experience and maintain consistent security across multi-cloud environments.

A key focus of the agreement is delivering a simplified and unified security experience. Pre-vetted and jointly engineered solutions will reduce integration complexity, accelerate deployment, simplify compliance and offer customers a single view of security across their hybrid multicloud infrastructure.

BJ Jenkins, President of Palo Alto Networks, said the partnership addresses growing concerns among business leaders about balancing innovation and risk. “We’re embedding AI-powered security deep into the Google Cloud fabric, turning the platform itself into a proactive defense system and removing friction between security and development,” he said.

Matt Renner, President and Chief Revenue Officer of Google Cloud, noted that enterprises increasingly rely on both companies to secure critical applications and data. He said the expanded partnership ensures customers can develop AI agents and secure AI infrastructure with protection built in from the outset.

Building on more than 75 joint integrations and over $2 billion in sales through the Google Cloud Marketplace, Palo Alto Networks will also migrate key internal workloads to Google Cloud as part of a new multibillion-dollar agreement. The company will further leverage Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform and Gemini large language models to power its AI copilots, strengthening engineering collaboration and delivering solutions optimized for performance, scale and reliability.

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