Learn How We’re Making It Safer to Work in a Connected World

• Google Cloud named Broadcom its 2025 Partner of the Year for Security - Data Protection.
• The award recognizes Broadcom’s long and productive collaboration with Google Cloud to support enterprise-grade data loss prevention (DLP) security for Google Workspace and Google Chrome Enterprise customers via integrations with Symantec DLP.
• Symantec DLP also protects sensitive data that may be consumed or shared by AI applications, while delivering up to 100X more bandwidth of competing SSE offerings.

Organizations that rely on Google Cloud’s enterprise-grade solutions for business deserve enterprise-grade data protection.

At Google Cloud Next 2025, Google Cloud named Broadcom its 2025 Partner of the Year for Security – Data Protection. The honor acknowledges our long collaboration with Google, and the resulting integrations and protections that keep our mutual customers’ sensitive data right where it belongs—and nowhere else.

These protections, which we’ll cover in detail below, arrive at a critical moment. Among our customer base, we’ve noticed organizations are increasingly relying on cloud–based services at a time when threat actors are starting to add cloud platforms as targets. Meanwhile, many of our customers are engaged in extensive data modernization initiatives as they deploy artificial intelligence (AI) apps and capabilities throughout their workflows.

Security teams are eyeing these moves and weighing the implications they have for securing sensitive data. That’s where our leadership in data loss prevention (DLP) and longstanding partnership with Google come in. Both have allowed us to deliver key foundational protections for our customers.

Preventing data loss across the workplace

In 2019, Symantec began migrating its cybersecurity solutions to Google Cloud. While we previously provided security protections for Google Workspace, our move to Google Cloud enabled an even more extensive collaboration built around the understanding that organizations shouldn’t have to sacrifice security for the convenience, scale and cost efficiencies that come with cloud deployments.

Our focus was on protecting the sensitive data that, in so many cases, is an organization’s most valuable asset. Attackers know this: If the data is valuable to you, then it is doubtless valuable to them.

Over the years, we’ve worked with Google Cloud to integrate multiple layers of DLP protections into Google Workspace and Chrome Enterprise offerings. Here are the majors:

• One key feature is Symantec DLP endpoint integration into Google Chrome Enterprise—the browser of choice for hundreds of millions of business users. By applying Symantec DLP data security policies to endpoints running Chrome Enterprise, organizations can extend their existing protections for sensitive data to the browser. This ensures users can’t inadvertently or purposefully share, upload or print documents or pages that contain or display data that shouldn’t be shared, uploaded or printed based on your data governance policies. Symantec’s seamless, stable, native integration with Chrome Enterprise protects both your organization and your users.
• Similar levels of data protection are available by integrating Symantec Cloud DLP with Gmail business accounts. With email such a prominent vector for phishing, spoofing and other attacks, Symantec extends DLP policies to Gmail. This protection ensures sensitive data isn’t shared via email. The protections also prevent workarounds like forwarding sensitive company data to personal Gmail accounts.
• Other integrations provide even more protection. With Symantec CloudSOC CASB, security teams can apply further guardrails that help identify possible attacks, such as multiple login attempts from overseas aiming to compromise user credentials. And at Google Cloud Next, Google spotlighted inline network DLP for Secure Web Proxy and Application Load Balancer, which results in robust protections for data within the Google Cloud network ecosystem. We now can provide real-time protection for sensitive data in transit, thanks to our integration of Symantec DLP with Google’s Service Extensions. This gives teams full visibility into data shared across applications (east / west), or from applications to the internet (north / south), to once again prevent unauthorized sharing of sensitive data externally, in addition to sharing data within an organization but across geographic boundaries.  

No-compromise SSE performance

Also at Google Cloud Next, we launched Symantec Cloud SWG Express Connect, a faster, simpler way to adopt Secure Service Edge (SSE) protections at office or data center locations. By directly integrating Symantec's security stack into Google’s Cloud WAN solution, this combination delivers up to 100X faster bandwidth compared to competitors’ GRE- or IPsec-based connectivity options.

This development calls out one of the other benefits of our partnership with Google: By working closely together, we’ve been able to show security teams that they no longer have to trade security for performance, or vice versa. For the first time, they really can have both. 

A virtuous cycle for Google and Symantec customers

What makes our partnership so great is that it has created a virtuous cycle: Google Cloud customers benefit from the ability to deploy Symantec DLP protections across their Google Workspace and Chrome Enterprise implementations, while also protecting data at rest and in transit. And Symantec DLP customers can rely on these Google Cloud offerings with the confidence that their data protection policies follow them across and throughout their Google Cloud environment. These protections are effective and don’t sacrifice performance. Everybody wins—except the attackers targeting that data or that benefit from careless or malicious insiders.

Best of all, we’re just getting started. As organizations make greater use of AI platforms, we’re ensuring that AI prompts don’t include sensitive data that can be consumed into a large language model (LLM). In addition to preventing sensitive data from leaving your environment, those same protections can examine similarly sensitive data provided from applications as a response to prompts, and put up roadblocks in real time to prevent that data from being inappropriately or carelessly shared.

Lastly, as Google adds data labeling capabilities, we’re working to integrate our DLP discovery and classification with Google data labels—adding a new dimension of security as Google’s own offerings evolve.

It’s an honor to be named a Google Partner of the Year. We’ve worked hard to earn it, and clearly we’re not slowing down. The reason for that is simple: Attackers are working overtime to get their hands on your data. And together with Google Cloud, we’re working even harder to see that they fail.

Watch Jason Rolleston, General Manager of Broadcom’s Enterprise Security Group, discuss our partnership and resulting breakthroughs with Muninder Sambi, Vice President of Cloud Networking at Google Cloud.