Google's got a hot cloud security startup, a new unified platform — and its eye on Microsoft's $20B+ security biz

Google will today reveal a new unified security platform that analysts think can help it battle Microsoft for a bigger chunk of the enterprise infosec market.

It's called Google Unified Security (GUS) and is said to combine the search giant's existing threat intelligence, security operations, and cloud security services, plus Chrome Enterprise. Because this is 2025 it also adds agentic AI.

Google’s approach appears similar to the one Microsoft introduced last month at with the announcement of task-specific AI agents that interact with various security products to do things like delivering reports that help security analysts to understand which alerts deserve urgent attention.

The ads giant’s infosec agents include one called Google Security Operations that we’re told can triage security alerts by analyzing the context of each incident and then gives the humans in charge advice about which ones merit a response. Another agent uses ...