Google Play Protect

Malware protection built into Google Play on Android devices; it checks apps before download, scans installed apps and warns about or removes harmful ones. If you install apps from unknown sources outside of the Google Play Store, Google Play Protect may ask you to send unknown apps to Google. If you believe that your app was incorrectly flagged or blocked by Google Play Protect, file an appeal . You may get a recommendation to scan an app from outside of Google Play that has never been scanned by Google Play Protect before. Supported platforms are Android.

Current Version

—Not known

Product Page

support.google.com/…/googleplay

Market

Consumer

Licence

Free

Price

Free

Record Created

2026-09-19

Last Updated

2026-10-28

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)