As enterprises race to harness the transformative power of agentic AI and cloud computing, Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership to enable the secure development and deployment of AI solutions and provide a trusted foundation that helps organizations harness the full potential of AI with confidence. The collaboration combines Google Clouds leading AI and infrastructure capabilities with PrismaR AIRS, Palo Alto Networks comprehensive AI security platform, to secure the next generation of digital business.
Palo Alto Networks recent State of Cloud Report, released in December 2025, found that customers are dramatically expanding their use of cloud infrastructure to support new AI applications and services, while also noting that 99 of respondents experienced at least one attack on their AI infrastructure over the last year. The agreement announced today aims to tackle these issues head-on through an enhanced go-to-market strategy and by building security into every layer of hybrid multicloud infrastructure, every application development stage and every endpoint, allowing businesses to innovate with the most advanced 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 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. And by securing key developer tools like the Agent Development Kit ADK with Prisma AIRS, this expanded collaboration ensures 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.
