The white paper explores the rapidly evolving cloud network security environment, emphasizing the growing complexity introduced by multicloud adoption, AI-driven workloads, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. It highlights the limitations of traditional security tools and the shift toward cloud-native solutions, zero trust models, and AI-powered threat detection. The paper uses Google’s strategic acquisitions—Siemplify, Mandiant, and Wiz—as a case study to illustrate how enterprises are investing in integrated security capabilities and introduces Aviatrix Cloud Firewall as a powerful runtime network security solution that complements static posture management tools like Wiz.