India, April 24 -- The CrowdStrike Google Cloud Partner recognition as 2026 Security Partner of the Year for Infrastructure Protection may look like another industry award. But it carries more weight when seen in context. This is the second consecutive year of recognition, pointing to consistency rather than a one-off achievement.

It also arrives at a time when cloud environments are changing fast. Enterprises are no longer just moving workloads to the cloud. They are building AI-driven systems that behave differently, scale differently and introduce new kinds of risk.

The announcement ties closely with CrowdStrike becoming a Google Agent Cloud Ecosystem launch partner. This signals an early role in shaping how Securing Agentic AI appli...