Securing the Digital Frontier: Google Cloud and Partners Bolster Cyber Resilience of JAPAC Organizations with AI-Enabled Cyber Defense

AI-Powered Partnerships: Strengthening Cybersecurity Across JAPAC with Google Cloud and Its Ecosystem

Singapore, JAPAC – As digital transformation sweeps across Japan and Asia Pacific (JAPAC) region, driving unprecedented innovation and economic growth, it also brings a heightened focus on cybersecurity. Amidst a complex threat landscape, Google Cloud provides a secure cloud platform to run businesses on — core infrastructure that is designed, built, and operated with security in mind; bolstered by a robust and expanding ecosystem of global, regional and local partners.

The imperative for robust cloud security in JAPAC has never been more critical. As organizations migrate sensitive workloads, embrace AI, and expand their digital footprints, they become increasingly attractive targets for cybercriminals. The region faces diverse and evolving threats, from sophisticated ransomware attacks to state-sponsored espionage, compounded by a mosaic of varying regulatory requirements across countries.

Google Cloud's End-to-End Security Foundation

Google Cloud's security philosophy is built on a "secure by design" principle, integrating advanced protections directly into its infrastructure. This includes robust encryption for data at rest, in use and in transit, a global network with inherent DDoS protection, and a highly secure operational model. Key offerings like Security Command Center provide centralized visibility and threat detection for the cloud assets, while Google Security Operations is an AI-powered platform built to deliver a modern agentic security operations center (SOC) where generative AI is woven into the fabric of your operations. Testament to this is Gartner’s recognition of Google as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).

A significant enhancement to Google Cloud's security posture, particularly relevant in today's threat environment, is the integration of Google’s leading threat intelligence and Mandiant’s incident response capabilities. This means Google Cloud customers in JAPAC can leverage real-time insights into emerging threats and benefit from Mandiant's expertise to proactively strengthen their defenses and respond effectively to breaches.

The Power of Partnership: Extending Reach and Expertise

While Google Cloud provides the foundational security, its vast network of partners is instrumental in tailoring and delivering these capabilities to diverse customer needs across JAPAC. These partners, ranging from global system integrators to specialized local cybersecurity firms and managed security service providers (MSSPs), play a crucial role in the last-mile delivery of secure cloud solutions.

"Our partners are the force multipliers for Google Cloud in Japan and Asia Pacific. They help build differentiated offerings, deliver security outcomes by leveraging Google’s technology and platforms, and provide significant value-added services to better serve our customers." says Sandeep Patil, Head of Security Partners and Managed Security Services, JAPAC. "They bring invaluable local market understanding, industry-specific expertise, and the professional services vital for organizations to navigate their unique security challenges, implement best practices, and achieve the robust security outcomes that our customers demand in this changing threat landscape."

Better Together with Partners

Partners have been a key catalyst towards the growth of Google Cloud Security business in the region. A few of the ways partners are working together is around:

Implementation and Integration: Our partners provide end-to-end consulting and implementation services, ensuring migrations from legacy tools, deploying Google Cloud's security tools, and integrating them with customer’s existing infrastructure. Our partners have continued to lead with Google Security Operations and Google Threat Intelligence for an intelligence-led approach to cybersecurity.

“In a market where speed, scale, and security define success, Google continues to lead with clarity and conviction. Thales’ partnership with Google is more than just capability—it’s about shared accountability and ambition. That’s what makes them a natural partner for us.

Google’s relentless drive for innovation means we’re always at the forefront of what’s possible. Our partnership empowers us to deliver solutions that not only anticipate threats, but also unlock new opportunities for our clients in a rapidly evolving digital world.” -Jacqui Kernot, Vice President, Thales Cyber Security Services

Managed Security Services (MSS): Many partners perform the role of an MSSP, offering 24/7 monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management, allowing customers to offload complex security operations and focus on their core business. Our global partners as well as our regional and local MSSPs have not only built their MSS offerings on Google Security Operations platform, they have also improved their SoC’s efficiency, productivity of their analysts and launched new services.

"The autonomous SOC represents the future of security, and our foundation for this is Google Security Operations. Our adaptive MDR enhances Google Security Operations monitoring and security management capabilities, BigQuery analytics, Agentic AI, and Google Threat Intelligence, providing high-efficacy operations for over 200 enterprises. We are also collaborating with select MSPs and MSSPs across APJ to bolster their SOCs and advanced analytics, helping them build resilient businesses." - Raju Chekuri, Chairman and CEO of Netenrich.

Specialized Solutions: Some partners collaborate with Google Cloud on critical areas such as data protection and sovereignty, offering advanced encryption and key management solutions that meet stringent regulatory requirements across different JAPAC jurisdictions. Many also leverage our threat intelligence capabilities by contributing to it and also consuming it to enhance their cyber threat intelligence.

Agentic AI: Agentic AI-based Security Operations represents a significant evolution in cybersecurity, moving beyond simple automation to create autonomous, goal-driven systems that actively defend against threats. These systems can perceive, reason, and act independently to achieve a security objective. Our strategic partners and MSSPs are working with us to help augment their capabilities with Agentic AI to deliver new capabilities like threat hunting, detection engineering, malware analysis and more.

“Our partnership with Google Cloud has been transformative for our clients. With Google Security Operations, Ensign can tailor each client’s unique environment from complex data ingestion across multi-cloud and on-premises systems, to fine-tuning detection rules to eliminate alert fatigue, and building automated response playbooks. We are excited about the SecOps roadmap and the potential that Google AI for Agentic SOC brings and look forward to deeper collaborations that strengthen our Managed Security Services for our APAC clients.” - Justin Choo, Head of Strategy, Marketing and Partnerships, Ensign InfoSecurity.

Addressing JAPAC's Unique Landscape

The diversity of the JAPAC region, with its varied regulatory frameworks (including PDPA, GDPR implications, local data residency laws) and cultural nuances, necessitates a localized approach to cybersecurity. Google Cloud’s expanding number of regions across JAPAC – including deployments in countries like Singapore, Australia, India, Japan and most recently in Indonesia – helps address data residency. Furthermore, partners with deep local presence ensure that security strategies are compliant and contextually relevant.

“This collaboration between PwC and Google Security Operations marks a bold step toward next-gen security innovation, combining deep expertise with cutting-edge technology to stay ahead of threats.” - Sundareshwar Krishnamurthy, Partner and India Cyber leader

By combining Google Cloud's security capabilities and Mandiant's frontline experts with the extensive reach and specialized expertise of its partner ecosystem, organizations across the Japan and Asia Pacific are empowered to proactively defend against today’s most sophisticated threats at Google speed and scale, across cloud, on-premises and browser environments.

This article is sponsored by Google.