CrowdStrike has won the 2025 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year Award for Workload Security, recognizing our leadership in securing cloud environments at scale. Announced at Google Cloud Next 2025, the award highlights our commitment to joint innovation and delivering best-in-class protection for Google Cloud customers.
As part of this growing partnership, we also introduced new CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security enhancements purpose-built for Google Cloud environments. These capabilities help our shared customers identify threats faster, improve their cloud security posture, and secure their AI pipelines from development to deployment.
Cloud Threat Landscape Demands Unified Protection
Adversaries continue to set their sights on cloud environments. According to the CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report, cloud intrusions rose 26% in 2024 as adversaries targeted misconfigurations, unsecured APIs, and identities. Valid account abuse, the primary initial access tactic according to the report, accounted for 35% of cloud incidents in the first half of 2024.
Strong cloud security is critical amid the accelerated adoption of cloud infrastructure and rapid pace of AI development. As organizations quickly grow their hybrid cloud footprint, security teams struggle to gain the visibility they need to properly secure their workloads, data, applications, and AI models. Developers building new applications need security tools to integrate with existing workflows and address issues earlier in the CI/CD pipeline. DevSecOps teams have a growing need to scan AI code and models for vulnerabilities to reduce risk before deployment and protect AI applications at runtime.
CrowdStrike’s new capabilities help Google Cloud customers address these challenges and secure their cloud environments.
CrowdStrike Awarded Google Cloud Partner of the Year 2025
As winner of the 2025 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year Award in the Workload Security category, CrowdStrike delivers unmatched visibility, detection, and protection across the modern cloud stack. Falcon Cloud Security is built to stop breaches in real time across infrastructure, workloads, applications, identities, data, SaaS, and AI models. With the industry’s leading threat intelligence, AI-powered detection, and deep integration with Google Cloud, CrowdStrike enables customers to innovate confidently and securely at scale.
Our mission to stop breaches has never wavered, and investments in our partnership with Google Cloud have made it possible to continue on that mission.
Protecting Google Cloud with CrowdStrike
Falcon Cloud Security delivers unified visibility and protection across the entire cloud estate — including infrastructure, workloads, applications, identities, data, and AI models — all from a single platform. Below are the new features designed to enhance security for Google Cloud customers using CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security.
Enhanced Image Scanning Capabilities
Falcon Cloud Security has a new command line interface (CLI) enhancement that supports faster application deployment. This feature helps teams improve security while maintaining the rapid pace of development, bridging the gap between security practitioners and developers running on Google Cloud.
Teams can now choose to keep scanned image results local or push them to the Falcon Cloud console, based on their specific needs. This allows greater control, reduces noise, and simplifies their CLI tool management. In addition, teams can use CrowdStrike’s ExPRT.AI scoring to scan images for vulnerabilities before they’re deployed in Google Cloud environments.