Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud expand partnership

Palo Alto Networks have expanded their strategic partnership with Google Cloud to enable the secure development and deployment of AI solutions.

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

This new phase of the partnership means customers will be able to protect live AI workloads and data on Google Cloud — including on Vertex AI and Agent Engine — with Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS.

By securing key developer tools like the Agent Development Kit (ADK) with Prisma AIRS, this expanded collaboration aims to ensure 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.

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewalls are designed to secure cloud (public, private, hybrid) and virtualised environments by providing deep packet inspection and Threat Prevention in a software form factor. Deep integrations with Google Cloud will now allow customers to maintain security policies and accelerate Google Cloud adoption.

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE is a cloud platform that secures access and networking for remote users, branch offices and mobile devices, along with deeper integration of security solutions into Google Cloud's native AI services.

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access runs on Google's network, intending to improve the user experience as users access cloud and AI applications that run on Google Cloud while also leveraging Google Cloud Interconnect to help customers connect their WAN infrastructure across multiple clouds/applications and maintain consistent security policies.

"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 CRO 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."

"For our customers across the Asia Pacific and Japan region, the ability to scale agentic AI safely is the new competitive benchmark," said Simon Green, president of JAPAC at Palo Alto Networks 

"This expanded partnership with Google Cloud provides the trusted foundation organisations need to innovate at speed. By integrating Prisma AIRS natively with Google Cloud’s infrastructure, we are enabling businesses to build and deploy autonomous AI applications with comprehensive protection for their data and intellectual property."

Building on a history that includes more than 75 joint integrations and $2 billion in sales through the Google Cloud Marketplace, Palo Alto Networks is also expanding its commitment to run its security platforms on Google Cloud's AI infrastructure by migrating key internal workloads to Google Cloud in a new multibillion-dollar agreement.

In addition, Palo Alto Networks is now using Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform and Gemini LLMs to power its copilots. Collectively, these initiatives deepen the engineering collaboration and ensure customers who run Palo Alto Networks on Google Cloud benefit from solutions that are natively optimised for performance, scale and reliability, according to the company.