Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud announced Cloud IDS (Intrusion Detection System), a jointly developed network threat detection service to help cloud customers solve critical network security challenges. Built with Palo Alto Networks' industry-leading threat detection technologies, Cloud IDS provides simple, managed, cloud native network-based threat detection — offering Google Cloud customers the highest levels of security efficacy in just a few clicks. The new service is the result of a year-long joint design and engineering effort between Google and Palo Alto Networks, focused on combining the best-in-class security of Palo Alto Networks with the simplicity and secure and scalable infrastructure of Google Cloud. Until now, detecting threats has been a significant hurdle for cloud network security teams, leading to security policy compliance challenges and blind spots for the security operations center. For organizations that want an easy path to network threat detection, Cloud IDS is a simple to set up, simple to deploy way to gain deep insight into network-based threats and support industry-specific security compliance goals. For more information, see the Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud blog posts.