Thales expands Google Cloud tie-up to secure AI agents

Thales said on Monday 28 September 2026 that it has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud, integrating its AI Security Fabric product with Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise to help companies secure and govern AI agents, according to a release on Thales's newsroom.

What was announced

The release describes one integration: Thales AI Security Fabric with Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise. In Thales's words, the integration "helps organizations apply security, governance, and visibility across interactions among users, agents, models, and tools in real time."

The release's subheadings say the integration "enables new protections for communications between AI agents, models, enterprise data, and tools to help control what agents can access, share, and do", and that the Thales product "mitigates risks, brings enhanced visibility and policy enforcement to AI-driven workflows on Google Cloud".

What the release does not include, on our reading of the full text:

• no availability date, pricing or preview/general-availability status;
• no named customers;
• no regions, and no UK-specific detail.

The risks Thales names

According to the release, the expanded collaboration "is designed to help organizations address emerging risks across the agentic AI lifecycle", which it lists as:

• prompt injection;
• sensitive data leakage;
• unsafe outputs;
• unauthorized actions;
• "increasingly complex agent-to-agent interactions".

Thales gives one worked example. It says AI agents settling insurance claims "could exceed their mandate by using personal information from outside approved sources to influence payouts, creating privacy and compliance risks." The company says its product "applies controls around agents to keep them within authorized boundaries, limit data access, and block inappropriate actions in real time."

The release also says that, "According to industry analysts, securing agentic AI has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges facing enterprise AI adoption." It does not name the analysts.

What the two companies said

Eva Rudin, Senior Vice President, Cybersecurity Products at Thales, said: "Enterprises are moving from AI assistants to AI agents that can autonomously take action, make decisions, and interact with critical business systems. This requires a fundamentally different approach to security."

Vineet Bhan, Director of Security and Identity Partnerships at Google Cloud, is quoted in the release saying: "Our work with Thales gives organizations additional capabilities to protect agentic AI workflows and adopt this next generation of AI with greater confidence."

We did not find a separate Google Cloud release; Google Cloud's comment here comes from the Thales release.

What came before

The release calls this an "expanded collaboration", and Thales has published on earlier work with Google. In a blog post dated 4 May 2026, Thales said it was "partnering with Google" on security for what it called Google's "upcoming" AI Agent Gateway, and said its Imperva Application Security platform "is going to provide an additional layer of visibility and security" for client-to-agent, agent-to-LLM and agent-to-MCP traffic. That post also referred to the "Controlled Availability" of Imperva for Google Cloud. Monday's release does not mention Imperva or the Agent Gateway by name.

Thales launched AI Security Fabric on 11 December 2025. At the time it said the first capabilities "available now" were AI Application Security and AI Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Security, and that it "plans to expand its AI Security Fabric in 2026" with capabilities including data leakage prevention, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) security gateway and end-to-end runtime access control. Thales described that launch as "delivering the first runtime security capabilities designed to protect Agentic AI"; that is the company's own claim, not one we have checked.

About Thales

Thales describes itself as "a global leader in advanced technologies for the Defence, Aerospace, and Cyber & Digital sectors". It says it has more than 85,000 employees in 65 countries and generated sales of €22.1 billion in 2025.

Why it matters

On our reading, this is a partnership announcement rather than a product launch with a date attached: the release describes what the integration is designed to do, but gives no availability, pricing or customer details. The concrete content is the list of agent risks Thales says it targets and its insurance-claims example of an agent exceeding its mandate. Buyers weighing it would need those missing details from Thales or Google Cloud directly.