Sule Yurdakul Esmerit | Director of Strategic Business Development- Cloud Security
The Google NEXT 2025 event was a remarkable showcase of innovation, collaboration, and cutting-edge technology. Thales, a global leader in advanced cyber security technologies, played an engaging role in this year's event, highlighting its commitment to digital sovereignty and security.
Thales' Strategic Presence
Thales had a strong presence throughout the Google NEXT event, with speaking sessions, executive presence and a booth in the Google Security Hub. Our partnership with Google underscores Thales' commitment to empowering customers to take complete control of their sensitive data and exceed regulatory requirements.
Figure 1: Luke Barbarinde, Thales AppSec Global Solution Architect and Daniel Wilkerson, Thales Business Development Rep shown in the Thales booth.
Encryption Key Management in a Post-Quantum World
One of the standout sessions was "Encryption Key Management in a Post-Quantum World," presented by Brad Meador, Group Product Manager, Google Cloud, Sonal Shah, Sr. Software Engineering Manager, Google Cloud and included a partner spotlight from Austin Chiu, Strategic Client Director at Thales. Watch the session on YouTube. This talk delved into a comprehensive key management strategy designed to safeguard critical assets, both now and in the future. The session emphasized the importance of modern key management, evolving cloud hardware security offerings, sovereign key management, and cloud key management. By leveraging advanced hardware security module (HSM) technology, sovereign key management principles, identity and access management, and the flexibility of cloud environments, organizations can build a robust and future-proof security posture.
Google Workspace: Secure and Compliant Collaboration for Regulated Industries
Another notable session was "Google Workspace: Secure and Compliant Collaboration for Regulated Industries," which explored how Google's suite of tools can help regulated customers meet their compliance needs with rigorous industry certifications such as HIPAA, SOC, and ISO. An insightful panel discussion was held with Johney Burke, Senior Product Manager, Client-side encryption at Google Workspace, Mitch Christow. Group Product Manager, Google Workspace, Todd Moore, VP Encryption Products, Thales, Michael Brenzel, Managing Director, StackIT, and Josef Wahby-Brehmer, Principal Director - AGBG Lead Global & EMEA - Digital Workplace & Collaboration, Accenture GmbH.
Workspace helps customers meet new executive orders and regulatory requirements to retain government and defense customers at a lower cost and with ease. Thales was featured in the presentation announcing PQC-ready Client-Side Encryption for Workspace using Thales CipherTrust Cloud Key Management. Watch the recap here.
Quantum Resilience for Google Workspace Including Gmail
Thales has been at the forefront of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) support, ensuring that its solutions are ready to tackle the challenges posed by quantum computing. At Google NEXT 2025, Thales showcased its PQC-ready Client-Side Encryption for Google Workspace, utilizing Thales CipherTrust Cloud Key Management and SafeNet Trust Access. Thales' Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) already support quantum-safe capabilities, providing organizations with the tools they need to secure their sensitive data against future quantum threats. By partnering with Google, Thales demonstrates its commitment to digital sovereignty and security, empowering customers to maintain control over their data and exceed regulatory requirements. This is the only cloud productivity suite that protects data from quantum attacks like the ‘Harvest Now, Decrypt Later’ scheme. This joint Google/Thales solution will launch by the end of 2025. Learn more in this video.
Gmail Send to Anyone
Google announced that Gmail Send to Anyone is in preview today and will be generally available in Q3 2025. With this solution, enterprise Gmail users can now send end-to-end encrypted emails to any platform. Customers have complete control over data access, ensuring privacy from Google and third parties by holding the keys and storing them in-country. CipherTrust Cloud Key Management (CCKM) from Thales enables this Google feature. Read the Google blog here. Enterprise Gmail Users Can Now Send End-to-End Encrypted Emails to Any Platform
Confidential Computing
Google NEXT featured many sessions on AI and their presentation on Confidential Computing for AI was insightful. To succeed in a landscape shaped by economic shifts, rising competition, and evolving regulations, companies must innovate while seamlessly integrating on-premises and cloud environments to protect data privacy, secure AI, and meet regulatory compliance. Google Cloud, Intel, and Thales jointly deliver End-to-End Data Protection (E2EDP) to help organizations confidently address these challenges. Weather storing data in a physical data center, a private or public cloud, or in a third-party storage application, proper encryption and key management are critical to ensure sensitive data is protected.
Thales offers data at rest encryption solutions that deliver granular encryption, tokenization, and role-based access control for structured and unstructured data residing in databases, applications, files, and storage containers. With centralized key management and a hardened root of trust, enterprises can ensure their master keys are protected and remain secure. Watch the session here.
Data Security Posture Management
Seamless integration between Thales Data Security Fabric (DSF) and Google Security Command Center Enterprise (SCC-E) to amplify visibility. Google SCC-E already provides great coverage across Google Cloud assets. Thales DSF takes it a step further, bringing in critical signals from AWS, Azure, Snowflake, on-premises infrastructure, and practically every other environment. Together, they create a single powerful security lens inside SCC-E. With this solution, customers have a dashboard with a comprehensive overview of data security risks across the entire ecosystem. Read the Google blog here. Introducing Google Threat Intelligence: Actionable threat intelligence at Google scale | Google Cloud Blog
Imperva AppSec
Thales showcased its Imperva Application Security solutions at the conference, including its market-leading WAF Rules & Policies that were selected by Google to augment their solutions, and its next generation of application security solutions: Imperva Elastic WAF and Imperva for Google Cloud. The latter was also highlighted in Google’s recap blog of the event, mentioning how Imperva Application Security is seamlessly integrated with their Cloud Load Balancing, via Service Extensions, and is now available in the Google Cloud Marketplace in beta. Expect to hear more about these solutions from Imperva soon.
The Imperva Application Security Platform stops the most advanced attacks with the highest efficacy while minimizing false positives. Its high efficiency enables organizations to quickly onboard, protecting their assets at scale. With the help of the Imperva Threat Research team with its global intelligence community, Imperva stays ahead of the evolving threat landscape, seamlessly integrating the latest security, privacy, and compliance expertise into its solutions. The Imperva Application Security Platform combines best-of-breed solutions that bring defense-in-depth to protect applications wherever they live - in the cloud, on-premises, or a hybrid configuration:
- On-Prem, Cloud, and Cloud-Native Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions for blocking the most critical web application security risks.
- API Security for continuous protection of all APIs using deep discovery and classification.
- Advanced Bot Protection for safeguarding websites, mobile applications, and APIs against today’s most sophisticated automated threats.
- Client-Side Protection for safeguarding websites against client-side attacks and streamlining regulatory compliance with PCI DSS 4.0.
- DDoS protection for websites, networks, and DNS to ensure business continuity with guaranteed uptime.
- Content Delivery Network for securely delivering applications worldwide with superior speed and performance.
S3NS Trusted Cloud in France: A Pioneer in Digital Sovereignty
Thales and S3NS participated in a session called “Building for the AI-centric world: Google Sovereign Cloud.” Olivier Flous, SVP Engineering & Digital Transformation at Thales, was a key contributor to this insightful discussion. Watch the session recording.
Built in partnership with Google and Thales, S3NS is the first European hyperscaler to deliver the greatest functional and technological depth. As the second largest project at Google after AI, S3NS involves thousands of engineers and aims for Google Cloud equivalency with 150 services and a target SLA equivalent to that of Google Cloud, such as 4.9 on BigQuery. S3NS is aiming for SecNumCloud qualification by summer 2025, making it the best solution for any cloud project involving sensitive data.
The mission of S3NS is to empower businesses and institutions to transform with trust by delivering cutting-edge technology and ensuring native control of data, operations, and infrastructure. S3NS has chosen to exceed SecNumCloud requirements, committing to keep pace with hyperscaler updates, which represent 10,000 deployments per week. These changes are inspected and audited by Thales teams during a quarantine phase, extending to the hardware and even back to the source code. All infrastructures require monitoring, and strict control is exercised over operations. When Google's expert support is required, the transmitted data is validated in a granular manner, thus limiting the transmission to technical data.
This SecNumCloud offering is part of a continuum of solutions that address all customer needs, regardless of their sensitivity. It includes the power of the public cloud with Google Cloud, Thales encryption of PII or IP data with "Local Controls," securing sensitive data in a trusted cloud, and even Google's "air gapped" solution for classified data. Our "one-stop shop" approach allows for seamless integration with existing infrastructure and opens up the possibility of pooling skills.
Paving the Way to the Modern SOC with Thales Cybersecurity Services
Ivan Fontarensky, CTO at Thales Cybersecurity Services, presented in the Google Security Hub highlighting the next-generation SOC. By leveraging Thales' expertise in cybersecurity incident detection and response, alongside Google Cloud's advanced SecOps capabilities driven by threat analysis and artificial intelligence, together Thales and Google are setting a new benchmark in security services.
For more comprehensive insights, read the article Automating Security Operations: Paving the way to the Modern SOC | Cyber Solutions By Thales
Security for What Matters Most
Thales' participation at Google NEXT 2025 was a testament to its leadership in digital sovereignty and security. The company's strategic presence, insightful sessions, and groundbreaking innovations highlighted its commitment to empowering customers and driving the future of secure digital transformation. As Thales continues to collaborate with Google and other industry leaders, it remains at the forefront of technological advancements, paving the way for a more secure and compliant digital world.
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