The cloud giant announced three new AI-powered security agents along with expanded support and capabilities on the Wiz platform.
Google Cloud unveiled significant updates in its cybersecurity suite Wednesday including the debut of new AI-powered security agents along with expanded support on the Wiz platform.
The announcements also included launches of new Wiz capabilities for securing AI-native development and speed gains for agentic-driven security operations.
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“It is very clear that we have moved from a human-led defense strategy, to a human-in-the-loop defense strategy, to an AI-led defense strategy that’s overseen by humans,” said Francis deSouza, COO and president of security products at Google Cloud, during a briefing with media outlets. “We at Google have a privileged position in terms of being able to create this AI-led cyber defense.”
The tech giant made the announcements in connection with its Google Cloud Next 2026 conference, taking place this week in Las Vegas.
What follows are five key things to know about the biggest security announcements from Google Cloud and Wiz at Next 2026.
Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering Agents
Google Cloud announced Wednesday that it is introducing three new AI agents within its Google Security Operations offering in an effort to boost machine-speed cyber defense.
The new Threat Hunting agent is aimed at enabling proactive hunting for previously unknown attack patterns and behaviors, which would have bypassed typical defenses in the past, according to Google Cloud. The Threat Hunting agent is now in preview.
Also in preview is the new Detection Engineering agent, which is capable of identifying gaps in coverage and creating new detections for various threats, according to Google Cloud.
Third-Party Context Agent, Speed Gains
The company’s third agentic announcement is the Third-Party Context agent, which is “coming soon” to preview, Google Cloud said. The agent is able to enrich security operations workflows utilizing contextual third-party data, according to the company.
All in all, the new agents help to show that “our model for the future [will be] an agentic fleet that does a lot of the routine cybersecurity work at a machine pace, and then is overseen by humans,” deSouza said during the briefing with media outlets.
Meanwhile, Google Cloud disclosed major speed gains in security operations with its Triage and Investigation agent, which the company said processed more than 5 million alerts over the past year. Crucially, leveraging Gemini, the agent was able to reduce a manual analysis that would have taken a half hour down to one minute, the company said.
Expanded Wiz Platform Support
Following the completion of Google’s historic $32 billion acquisition of Wiz in March, the Wiz platform has continued to be expanded under the umbrella of Google Cloud, the company said.
During Next 2026, Google Cloud announced that the Wiz platform has now added support for Databricks—meaning that “now, customers can protect Databricks using Wiz,” said Yinon Costica, co-founder and vice president of product at Wiz, during the media briefing.
Wiz has also now added support for several agent studios, according to the company. Those agent studios now supported by Wiz include AWS Agentcore and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as well as Microsoft Azure Copilot Studio and Salesforce Agentforce, the company said. Now, “this is a second set of new clouds that we support,” Costica said.
Additionally, Wiz announced that it is now integrating with the “outer layer” of the cloud with new support for Google Cloud Apigee and Cloudflare AI Security for Apps along with the Vercel platform.
Securing AI-Native Development
Meanwhile, Wiz announced Wednesday that it is launching a new set of capabilities for securing AI-native development.
Those capabilities include new protections for vibe-coded applications, via an integration with Lovable. Wiz can now run its security scanning functionality within the Lovable platform, surfacing vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and secrets inside of the security interface on the platform, the company said.
Other new capabilities include new inline AI security hooks that can boost security for AI-generated code, along with new agent-powered remediation capabilities leveraging Wiz Skills, according to the company.
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Finally, Google Cloud announced Wednesday that it is launching its new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for building, orchestrating and governing AI agents.
Key functionality on the platform includes agent identity and agent gateway as well as Model Armor runtime protection, the company said.
The launch equates to “strong new capabilities that we’re announcing around agent identity [and] a gateway to provide additional security for agents,” along with “a big step forward in our Model Armor technology,” deSouza said.
Ultimately, all of the announcements have the effect of advancing the mission of Google Cloud and Wiz when it comes to security, which is to “provide the world’s best cybersecurity across any cloud, any platform, any AI choice,” he said.
