Palo Alto Networks, Google Cloud Expand Strategic Partnership to Secure AI and Cloud Adoption

Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud have announced a major expansion of their strategic partnership to help enterprises securely build, deploy, and scale AI-driven applications across hybrid and multicloud environments.

As organizations accelerate adoption of agentic AI and cloud computing, the collaboration brings together Google Cloud’s AI and infrastructure capabilities with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma® AIRS™, its comprehensive AI security platform. The goal is to embed security across every layer—from code and development tools to runtime environments and endpoints—so businesses can innovate with confidence while protecting data and intellectual property.

The move follows findings from Palo Alto Networks’ State of Cloud Report (December 2025), which revealed that while enterprises are rapidly expanding cloud usage for AI, 99% experienced at least one attack on their AI infrastructure in the past year. The expanded partnership directly addresses these risks through tighter integrations and a strengthened go-to-market approach.

Key outcomes of the collaboration include end-to-end AI security for workloads running on Google Cloud platforms such as Vertex AI and Agent Engine; AI-driven next-generation software firewalls via Palo Alto Networks’ VM-Series; deeper integration of Prisma SASE to secure users, branches, and devices accessing AI applications; and a simplified, unified security experience with pre-engineered, interoperable solutions.

Simon Green, President, APAC & Japan at Palo Alto Networks, said the partnership provides a trusted foundation for enterprises to safely scale agentic AI, ensuring security is built into every stage of the cloud journey.

Matt Renner, President and Chief Revenue Officer, Google Cloud, added that the expanded collaboration will give joint customers seamless access to solutions that secure critical AI infrastructure from the outset.

Building on more than 75 joint integrations and over $2 billion in marketplace sales, Palo Alto Networks will also migrate key internal workloads to Google Cloud under a new multibillion-dollar agreement and leverage Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Gemini models to power its AI copilots—further deepening engineering and product alignment.