This collaboration combines Google Cloud's cutting-edge AI and infrastructure capabilities with Palo Alto Networks' comprehensive AI security platform, Prisma® AIRS™, to protect the next generation of digital business.
As enterprises race to harness the transformative power of agent AI and cloud computing, Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud announced a significant expansion of its strategic partnership to enable the secure development and deployment of AI solutions and provide a trusted foundation for organizations to confidently leverage the full potential of AI. This collaboration combines Google Cloud's cutting-edge AI and infrastructure capabilities with Palo Alto Networks' comprehensive AI security platform, Prisma® AIRS™, to protect the next generation of digital business.
Palo Alto Networks' latest State of the Cloud report released in December 2025 found that customers are dramatically expanding their use of cloud infrastructure to support new AI applications and services. They also noted that 99% of respondents experienced at least one attack on their AI infrastructure in the past year. The agreement announced today aims to address these issues head-on through enhanced go-to-market strategies and by building security into every layer, every application development stage, and every endpoint of a hybrid multicloud infrastructure, enabling businesses to innovate with cutting-edge AI while protecting their IP and data in the cloud.
This new phase of the partnership will deliver:
End-to-end AI security from code to cloud: Customers can now use Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS to protect live AI workloads and data on Google Cloud, including Vertex AI and Agent Engine. Additionally, by securing key developer tools such as the Agent Development Kit (ADK) with Prisma AIRS, this expanded collaboration ensures a secure foundation for next-generation AI applications built on Google Cloud. This includes AI Posture Management for visibility, AI Runtime Security™ for real-time protection, AI Agent Security for autonomous systems, AI Red Teaming for proactive testing, and AI Model Security for vulnerability scanning.
- AI-driven next-generation software firewall (SWFW): Palo Alto Networks' VM Series firewalls are designed to protect cloud (public, private, hybrid) and virtualized environments by providing deep packet inspection and threat prevention in a software form factor. Tight integration with Google Cloud enables customers to maintain robust security policies and accelerate Google Cloud adoption.
- AI-driven Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform: Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE is a cloud platform that secures access and networking for remote users, branch offices, and mobile devices, and deeply integrates security solutions with Google Cloud's native AI services. Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access runs on Google's network and improves the user experience when users access cloud and AI applications running on Google Cloud, while leveraging Google Cloud Interconnect to enable customers to connect their WAN infrastructure across multiple clouds/applications and maintain consistent security policies.
- A simple, unified security experience: Our close collaboration ensures your solutions are pre-vetted and designed to work together, eliminating integration challenges and operational friction that can slow down security teams. This enables customers to deploy protection faster, simplify compliance, and get a single, comprehensive view of security across their hybrid multicloud environments.
BJ Jenkins, President, Palo Alto Networks
“Every board is looking for a way to harness the power of AI without exposing their business to new threats. This partnership answers that question. We are removing the friction between security and development and delivering an integrated platform where cutting-edge security is simply a native part of building next.Together with Google, we are embedding AI-powered security deep into the Google Cloud fabric, turning the platform itself into a proactive defense system.Enterprises are using Google Cloud and Palo Alto to protect their applications and data. “This latest expansion of our partnership ensures that our joint customers have access to the right solutions to protect their most critical AI infrastructure and develop new AI agents with security built in from the start.”
– Matt Renner, President and Chief Revenue Officer, Google Cloud
Building on a history of success that includes more than 75 joint integrations and $2 billion in revenue through Google Cloud Marketplace, Palo Alto Networks is expanding its efforts to run its security platform on Google Cloud's secure and reliable AI infrastructure by moving key internal workloads to Google Cloud in a new multibillion-dollar agreement. Additionally, Palo Alto Networks is currently using Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform and Gemini LLM to power its co-pilot. Together, these efforts will deepen engineering collaboration and enable Palo Alto Networks customers running Google Cloud to benefit from a solution that is natively optimized for performance, scale, and reliability.
