Palo Alto Networks Brings Network Threat Detection to Google Cloud

From paloaltonetworks.com

Imagine building applications in the cloud with the knowledge they are natively protected with industry-leading security controls. Imagine having your own personal, best-in-class threat research team at your fingertips, while taking advantage of cloud simplicity, scalability and speed.

Now meet Google Cloud Intrusion Detection System (Cloud IDS). It’s the first network threat detection system delivered as a native Google Cloud service, built with the industry-leading security technologies of Palo Alto Networks. Cloud IDS is the result of a year-long joint design and engineering effort between Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks that was focused on combining the best-in-class security of Palo Alto Networks with the simplicity and scale of Google Cloud native services. In just a few clicks, Google Cloud customers will be able to deploy on-demand application visibility and threat detection between workloads or containers in any Google Cloud virtual private cloud (VPC) to support their compliance goals and protect applications.

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