Google has unveiled a major expansion of its cybersecurity capabilities at Cloud Next ‘26, introducing AI-driven security agents, enhanced multicloud protection through Wiz, and new controls designed to secure the rapidly expanding AI attack surface. The announcement highlights Google’s shift toward “agentic” defense, where autonomous AI agents take on a central role in threat detection and response as security teams struggle to keep pace with rising vulnerabilities.

The move comes as the volume of software vulnerabilities continues to surge, with emerging systems like Mythos expected to further accelerate CVE discovery. In response, Google is positioning AI agents -not human analysts – as the only scalable solution to manage the growing complexity of modern cyber threats. The company’s latest updates focus on automating detection, speeding up response times, and securing the increasingly interconnected ecosystem of AI, cloud platforms, and third-party services.

At the core of this announcement are three new AI agents embedded within Google Security Operations: a threat hunting agent, a detection engineering agent, and a third-party context agent. The threat hunting and detection engineering agents, currently in preview, are designed to identify emerging attack patterns and close detection gaps, while the third-party context agent will enrich investigations with external intelligence. These tools build on Google’s existing triage and investigation agent, which has already processed more than five million alerts and reduced analysis time from 30 minutes to nearly one minute using Gemini.

Google is also advancing what it calls “agentic automation,” enabling automated response actions triggered by AI-driven insights. This is complemented by enhanced dark web intelligence capabilities integrated into Google Threat Intelligence, helping organizations prioritize high-risk threats with greater accuracy and speed.

A significant part of the update centers on Google’s expanded integration with Wiz, which is being positioned as a unifying security layer across multicloud and AI development environments. Wiz now supports platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, SaaS applications, and emerging AI agent development ecosystems such as Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Azure Copilot Studio, and Salesforce Agentforce. According to Francis deSouza, COO of Google Cloud and President of Security Products, this expansion ensures organizations maintain visibility regardless of where or how their teams build applications.

The Wiz integration introduces several new capabilities, including inline scanning of AI-generated code, deeper integration into developer workflows, and the introduction of an AI bill of materials (AI-BOM). The AI-BOM provides a comprehensive inventory of AI components – such as models, frameworks, and development tools – used across an organization, offering a structured approach to managing the growing risks associated with shadow AI.

Google is also addressing security challenges within what it describes as the “agentic web,” where AI agents interact autonomously across systems. To manage this emerging layer, the company introduced Agent Identity and Agent Gateway, which provide governance and policy enforcement for AI-driven interactions. Additionally, enhancements to Model Armor aim to mitigate risks such as prompt injection and data leakage, while updates to Google Cloud Fraud Defense improve the ability to distinguish between human users, bots, and AI agents.

Alongside these innovations, Google is working to simplify identity and access management (IAM) with more modernized controls, further strengthening security across cloud environments.

With these announcements, Google is reinforcing its commitment to AI-first cybersecurity, signaling a future where autonomous agents play a critical role in defending increasingly complex digital ecosystems. As enterprises continue to adopt AI at scale, the company’s focus on agentic defense, multicloud visibility, and AI governance positions it at the forefront of the next phase of cybersecurity innovation.

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