The Future of SecOps: Autonomous Intelligence at the Google Cloud Security Innovations Forum 2026
Partners Alexey BokovThe cybersecurity landscape has shifted. Reactive tooling is no longer sufficient to combat the unprecedented velocity of modern threat vectors. To thrive in this new era, enterprises must transition toward autonomous, agentic AI while simultaneously ensuring these powerful new AI workloads are strictly governed and secured.
Splunk (a Cisco company) is proud to announce our participation in the Google Cloud Security Innovations Forum 2026, taking place this September 29 at Google’s Sunnyvale campus. This event marks a milestone in our mission to empower security leaders with production-ready AI agents that detect, combat, and thwart threats in real time.
Redefining the SOC with Splunk Agent Observability
We are showcasing the latest evolution of our partnership with Google Cloud: Splunk Agent Observability (formerly Galileo), accelerated by the generative capabilities of Google’s Gemini models. This domain-specific AI framework with Gemini’s advanced reasoning, we are bridging the gap between complex machine data and actionable security and observability intelligence.
Key capabilities we will be demonstrating include:
- Context-Aware AI Governance: While the Splunk AI Assistant handles natural language translation, Splunk Agent Observability acts as the governance layer. It evaluates agent behavior, enforces runtime guardrails, and ensures AI workflows remain secure, cost-effective, and compliant.
- Secure Enterprise Architecture: Built to maintain Splunk's rigorous data privacy standards alongside "Google Cloud Ready" validation, this layer leverages secure architectures like Private Service Connect. This ensures sensitive SIEM data remains within a compliant, sovereign boundary, providing the trusted foundation necessary to scale AI safely, even in highly regulated markets.
- Guided Triage & Orchestrated Remediation: Beyond surface-level analysis, the observability framework acts as a proactive security partner. It intelligently interprets complex alerts, recommends precise next steps, and orchestrates playbooks—such as automatically identifying and remediating misconfigured GCP resources that are failing to report logs.
"Securing and governing AI workloads is top of mind for every IT and security leader today. At .conf26, our partnership showed what is possible when we unite Splunk Observability and Security with Google Cloud. Combined with Private Service Connect and Sovereign Cloud, we are giving enterprises the trusted foundation required to scale Agentic AI securely in regulated markets and beyond."
— Aly Shivji, GVP, Global Partner Sales & Engineering, Splunk, a Cisco company
Join Us in Sunnyvale
If you are a security executive looking to secure your cloud estate with unmatched precision and speed, we invite you to join us for a front-row seat to the future of AI-driven defense.
- When: September 29, 2026
- Where: Google Sunnyvale Campus
- What to Expect: Frontline Intelligence Briefings, live demonstrations of autonomous agentic workflows, and deep dives into the ecosystem collaboration between Splunk and Google Cloud.
Space is limited - Register Now to secure your spot at the forefront of the agentic AI revolution.
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