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Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud expand partnership with advanced AI infrastructure and cloud security

Posted on by Alan Weissberger
As enterprises accelerate the adoption of agentic AI and cloud computing solutions, Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud have significantly expanded their strategic alliance. This collaboration aims to provide a secure, trusted foundation for organizations to develop, deploy, and operationalize AI technologies with confidence.
The partnership integrates Google Cloud’s advanced AI and infrastructure capabilities with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma® AIRS™ – a comprehensive AI security platform, to secure the next generation of digital business operations. The strategic alignment addresses critical security challenges highlighted in the December 2025 “State of Cloud Report” by Palo Alto Networks, which indicated widespread expansion of cloud infrastructure for AI applications and a 99% incidence rate of AI infrastructure attacks among respondents within the last year.
The enhanced agreement focuses on a robust go-to-market strategy and embedding security across hybrid multi-cloud environments, application development lifecycles, and endpoints. This ensures businesses can innovate using advanced AI while simultaneously safeguarding intellectual property and sensitive data within the cloud infrastructure.
Key deliverables of this expanded partnership include:
  • End-to-End AI Security from Code to Cloud: Customers can protect live AI workloads and data on Google Cloud, including instances on Vertex AI and Agent Engine, using Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS. Securing key developer tools like the Agent Development Kit (ADK) with Prisma AIRS provides a secure foundation for developing next-generation AI applications on Google Cloud. This includes capabilities such as AI Posture Management, AI Runtime Security™, AI Agent Security for autonomous systems, AI Red Teaming, and AI Model Security.
  • AI-Driven, Next-Generation Software Firewall (SWFW): Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewalls, designed for securing cloud and virtualized environments via deep packet inspection and Threat Prevention, will feature deep integrations with Google Cloud to help customers maintain robust security policies and accelerate cloud adoption.
  • AI-Driven Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform: Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE platform secures access and networking for remote users and branch offices. Deeper integration with Google Cloud’s native AI services will improve the user experience by leveraging Google’s network for Prisma Access execution and utilizing Google Cloud Interconnect for consistent security policies across multi-cloud WAN infrastructure.
  • Simplified and Unified Security Experience: The deep engineering alignment ensures that joint solutions are pre-vetted and optimized for seamless interoperability, reducing integration complexity and operational overhead for security teams. This enables faster deployment of protective measures, simplified compliance, and a unified security posture across the entire hybrid multicloud ecosystem.
Executive Quotes:
  • BJ Jenkins, President, Palo Alto Networks: “The critical question for modern governance boards is how to leverage AI without introducing undue risk. This partnership provides the definitive answer. We are eliminating the operational friction between security and development, delivering a unified platform where cutting-edge security is an inherent component of innovation. By embedding our AI-powered security deeply into the Google Cloud infrastructure, we are transforming the platform into a proactive defense system.”
  • Matt Renner, President and Chief Revenue Officer, Google Cloud: “Enterprises increasingly rely on the combined capabilities of Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks for seamless application and data security. This partnership expansion guarantees our joint clientele access to the necessary solutions for securing their most critical AI infrastructure and developing secure-by-design AI agents from inception.”
Building on more than 75 joint integrations and $2 billion in sales through the Google Cloud Marketplace, Palo Alto Networks is migrating internal workloads to Google Cloud under a new multibillion-dollar agreement. Palo Alto Networks is also using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform and Gemini LLMs for internal AI copilot functions. These initiatives ensure that customers using Palo Alto Networks solutions on Google Cloud benefit from solutions optimized for performance, scale, and reliability.
SOURCE: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
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About Palo Alto Networks:

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About Google Cloud:

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

  • Learn more about Palo Alto Networks and the Google Cloud partnership here.
  • Please see References below for Google Cloud initiatives

 

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References:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/palo-alto-networks-and-google-cloud-forge-landmark-agreement-to-help-customers-securely-accelerate-cloud-and-ai-initiatives-302646754.html

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/engage/global-multi-platform-security/palo-alto-devops-in

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