PwC expands Google Cloud alliance with $400M push into AI-driven security operations – News

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP today announced an expanded alliance with Google Cloud that includes a $400 million, three-year collaboration to help organizations modernize security operations and strengthen cyber resilience through artificial intelligence-driven, intelligence-led defense.

The expanded collaboration builds on work that PwC and Google Cloud are already doing to support organizations that are facing increasingly complex cyberthreats, fragmented security environments and growing operational demands.

The collaboration will see the combination of Google Cloud’s AI-powered security platforms and threat intelligence with PwC’s security transformation, risk and managed services capabilities. The result, the companies hope, will help organizations help their clients improve visibility, accelerate detection and response, and operate security programs more effectively across hybrid and multicloud environments.

PwC notes that the collaboration differs from existing partnerships between the two companies by combining proven execution at scale with deep regulatory, risk and executive-level insight, as well as drawing on experience delivering and operationalizing complex security transformations in the market.

“Security professionals are under pressure to move faster and operate smarter in the face of constant change,” said Morgan Adamski, cyber, data and technology risk deputy leader at PwC. “PwC is working with Google Cloud to help organizations operationalize AI and intelligence in ways that meaningfully improve how security teams work, day in and day out.”

PwC and Google Cloud already deliver an end-to-end security portfolio spanning security operations transformation, cloud-native application protection, threat intelligence, compliance automation and managed security services.

The expanded alliance also places a strong emphasis on helping organizations move away from reactive security models toward more proactive, intelligence-led operations.

PwC is aiming to help clients reduce alert fatigue, prioritize the most critical threats and enable faster, more confident decision-making across security teams by embedding AI-driven automation and advanced analytics deeper into security workflows.

“PwC supports Google Cloud by bringing the deep transformation expertise that organizations need to translate agentic AI into real operational impact,” said Denise Walter, vice president of global security sales at Google Cloud.

Hank Thomas, co-founder and chief executive officer of venture capital firm Strategic Cyber Ventures LLC, told News via email that “this collaboration reflects where the market is going.”

“Enterprises are dealing with fragmented tools, talent shortages and growing complexity and pairing AI with large-scale security services can help accelerate modernization,” said Thomas. “It also signals that AI-driven, intelligence-led defense is becoming table stakes, which likely means we’ll see more partnerships like this.”

Prakash Venkata, principal of cyber, risk and regulatory at PwC, and Vinod D’Souza, director of the Office of the CISO for manufacturing and industry at Google Cloud, spoke with theCUBE, News Media’s livestreaming studio, in May on the ongoing partnership and how it addresses enterprise hesitancy to adopt AI security tools:

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