Cloud Next Generation Firewall

Distributed cloud firewall service for Google Cloud workloads, offered in Essentials, Standard and Enterprise tiers. Cloud NGFW's fully distributed, stateful inspection firewall engine is built natively into our software defined networking fabric and enforced at each workload. Policy objects, such as Google Cloud Threat Intelligence lists , domain name (FQDN) objects , and geolocation objects , provide advanced protection for firewall rules. Register today for the Google Cloud Security Summit: Master security at the speed of AI with insights from leading industry voices. It is available as a cloud instance.

Current Version

Cloud · no version

Product Page

cloud.google.com/firewall

Market

Enterprise

Licence

Free tier available

Price

Free · paid plans

Record Created

2026-09-19

Last Updated

2026-10-10

Google's presence in this index is not a security business but two components of much larger platforms. Google Play Protect is the malware scanning built into Android devices with Google services, which scans applications at install time and periodically afterwards; it is on by default on billions of phones, which makes it the baseline Android security product rather than one a user selects. Cloud Next Generation Firewall is the firewall service within Google Cloud, protecting workloads that run there. Neither is sold as a standalone product and neither has a price of its own — Play Protect comes with the phone and the firewall is billed as part of cloud usage. Play Protect does appear in the mobile testing that AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives run, which is unusual for a platform-builtin, and its results are worth reading in the same way Microsoft Defender's are on Windows: as the standard a paid Android product has to beat to be worth installing. Vendor page →

Website

about.google

Country

🇺🇸United States

Headquarters

🇺🇸Mountain View, United States

Year Established

1998

Customers

13M organisations

Users

2.8B devices protected

Revenue

$402.8B (2025)