An open approach to security: Announcing Google Unified Security Recommended

At Google Cloud, we believe that being at the forefront of driving secure innovation and meeting the evolving needs of customers includes working with partners. The reality is that the security landscape should be interoperable, and your security tools should be able to integrate with each other. 

Google Unified Security, our AI-powered, converged security solution, has been designed to support greater customer choice. To further this vision, today we’re announcing Google Unified Security Recommended, a new program that expands strategic partnerships with market-leading security solutions trusted by our customers.

We welcome CrowdStrike, Fortinet, and Wiz as inaugural Google Unified Security Recommended partners. These integrations are designed to meet our customers where they are today and ensure their end-to-end deployments are built to scale with Google in the future.

Building confidence through validated integrations

As part of the Google Unified Security Recommended program, partners agree to adhere to comprehensive technical integration across Google’s security product portfolio; a collaborative, customer-first support model that reflects our intent to collectively protect our customers; and invest jointly in AI innovation. This program offers our customers:

• Enhanced confidence: Select partner products that have undergone evaluation and validation to ensure optimal integration with Google Unified Security.

• Accelerated discovery: Streamline your evaluation process with a carefully curated selection of market-leading solutions addressing specific enterprise challenges.

• Prioritize outcomes: Minimize integration overhead, allowing your team to allocate resources towards building security solutions that deliver business outcomes.

We’re working to ensure that customers can use solutions that are powerful today — and designed for future advancements. Learn more about the product-level requirements that define the Google Unified Security Recommended designation here. 

Our inaugural partners: Unifying your defenses

Our collaborations with CrowdStrike, Fortinet and Wiz exemplify our "better together" philosophy by addressing tangible security challenges.

CrowdStrike Falcon (endpoint protection): Integrations between the AI-native CrowdStrike Falcon® platform, Google Security Operations, Google Threat Intelligence, and Mandiant Threat Defense can enable customers to detect, investigate, and respond to threats faster across hybrid and multicloud environments. 

Customers can use Falcon Endpoint risk signals to define Context-Aware access policies enforced by Google Chrome Enterprise. The collaboration also supports integrations that secure the AI lifecycle — and extends through the model context protocol (MCP) to advance AI for security operations. Together, CrowdStrike and Google Cloud deliver unified protection across endpoint, identity, cloud, and data.

“CrowdStrike and Google Cloud share a vision for an open, AI-powered future of security. Together, we’re uniting our leading AI-native platforms – Google Security Operations and the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform – to help customers harness the power of generative AI and stay ahead of modern threats,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer, CrowdStrike.

Fortinet cloud-delivered SASE and Next-Generation Firewall (network protection): Integrating Fortinet’s Security Fabric with Google Security Operations combines AI-driven FortiGuard Threat Intelligence with rich network and web telemetry to deliver unified visibility and control across users, applications, and network edges. 

Customers can integrate FortiSASE and FortiGate solutions into Google Security Operations to correlate activity across their environments, apply advanced detections, and automate coordinated response actions that contain threats in near real-time. This collaboration can help reduce complexity, streamline operations, and strengthen protection across hybrid infrastructures.

“Customers are demanding simplified security architectures that reduce complexity and strengthen protection,” said Nirav Shah, senior vice president, Product and Solutions, Fortinet. “As an inaugural partner in the Google Cloud Unified Security Recommended program, we are combining the power of FortiSASE and the Fortinet Security Fabric with Google Cloud’s security capabilities to converge networking and security across environments. This approach gives SecOps and NetOps shared visibility and coordinated controls, helping teams eliminate tool sprawl, streamline operations, and accelerate secure digital transformation.”

Wiz (multicloud CNAPP): Customers can integrate Wiz's cloud security findings with Google Security Operations to help teams identify, prioritize, and address their most critical cloud risks in a unified platform. 

In addition, Wiz and Security Command Center integrate to provide complete visibility and security for Google Cloud environments, including threat detection, AI security, and in-console security for application owners. Wiz is actively developing a new Google Threat Intelligence (GTI) integration that allows existing GTI customers to access threat intelligence seamlessly in the Wiz console, enabling threat intelligence-driven detection and response processes.

“Achieving secure innovation in the cloud requires unified visibility and radical risk prioritization. Our inclusion in the Google Unified Security Recommended program recognizes the power of Wiz to deliver code-to-cloud security for Google Cloud customers. By integrating our platform with Google Security Operations and Security Command Center, we enable customers to see their multicloud attack surface, prioritize the most critical risks, and automatically accelerate remediation. Together, we are simplifying the most complex cloud security challenges and making it easier for you to innovate securely," said Anthony Belfiore, chief strategy officer, Wiz.

Powering the agentic SOC with MCP

A critical aspect of Google Unified Security Recommended is our shared dedication to strategic AI initiatives, including MCP support. Because it enables AI models to interact with and use security tools, MCP can enhance security workflows by ensuring Gemini models possess contextual awareness across multiple downstream services.

MCP can help facilitate an enhanced, cross-platform agentic experience. With MCP, our new AI agents — such as the alert triage agent in Google Security Operations that autonomously investigates alerts — can query partner tools for telemetry, enrich investigations with third-party data, and orchestrate response actions across your entire security stack. 

We are proud to confirm that all of our inaugural launch partners support MCP and have developed recommended approaches for how to activate MCP-supported agentic workflows across our products, a crucial step towards realizing our vision of an agentic SOC where AI functions as a virtual security assistant, proactively identifying threats and guiding you to faster, more effective responses.

Our open future on Google Cloud Marketplace

The introduction of the Google Unified Security Recommended program is only the beginning. We are dedicated to expanding this program to include a wider array of most trusted partner solutions with substantial investment across the Google Unified Security product suite, helping our customers build a more scalable, effective, and interoperable security architecture.

For simplified procurement and deployment, all qualified Google Unified Security Recommended solutions are available in the Google Cloud Marketplace. We offer Google Unified Security and Google Cloud customers streamlined purchasing of third-party offerings, all consolidated into one Google Cloud bill.

To learn more about the program and explore Google-validated solutions from our partners, visit the Google Unified Security Recommended page. Tech partners interested in program consideration are encouraged to reach out for guidance.