Google Cloud Security Launches Its Agentic SOC Experience at Google Cloud Next with Instruqt

Customer Overview

Google Cloud Security helps the world's leading enterprises detect, investigate, and respond to threats with cloud-native security solutions powered by Google's threat intelligence and AI. The team is now at the forefront of one of the biggest shifts in the security industry: bringing agentic AI into the Security Operations Center (SOC). At Google Cloud Next, the team uses workshops, Capture the Flag events, and immersive customer experiences to help practitioners see, touch, and operate Google's Agentic SOC capabilities firsthand.

Challenge

"Everyone learns differently. Some people like to read, watch, do, etc. So the hands-on piece is critical because the technology is complex, and if you've never seen it before, you really don't know where to click or what to do."

Keith Manville, Pre-Sales Engineer, Google Cloud Security

AI is shipping faster than customers can adopt it, and security is one of the most acute examples. Google Cloud Security wanted to introduce its Agentic SOC capabilities to customers and partners at Google Cloud Next, but slide decks and screen shares don't translate into confidence with brand-new agentic concepts. Practitioners needed to actually build an agent, see what its primitive features do, and operate the product in a realistic environment.

That created a real operational challenge for Keith and his team. To run an Agentic SOC Experience workshop at scale, they needed:

• A way to spin up a complete Google Cloud and Vertex AI environment for every participant, without making attendees wait on provisioning.
• Isolation, so each learner could safely build and break their own agents without affecting anyone else.
• A repeatable motion they could run across global customer events, Capture the Flag competitions, and ongoing enablement programs.

Solution

Google Cloud Security chose Instruqt to power its Agentic SOC Experience at Google Cloud Next. Instruqt's hands-on platform aligned to the way Keith's team wanted customers to actually experience the product:

• Dedicated Vertex environments per participant. Instruqt spins up a Vertex AI sandbox for every learner, so each customer can build their own agents, explore agentic capabilities, and experiment safely in their own secure environment.
• Automated provisioning and zero-friction onboarding. User access, demo data, and the underlying cloud setup are all handled by Instruqt. Customers don't get blocked by IT or setup steps. They get straight into the product.
• A hands-on path through complex technology. Instruqt guides each participant through the journey of learning how to operate the product, so practitioners encountering agentic AI for the first time know exactly where to click and what to do.
• A repeatable engine for events worldwide. From keynote workshops to Capture the Flag competitions, Instruqt provisions the same software, demo data, and scenarios so Keith's team can scale a consistent Agentic SOC Experience across the globe.

This is what the new operational motion for AI adoption looks like in practice: production-like environments, goal-oriented challenges, and real tools, all built around what hands-on learners actually need.

Results

At Google Cloud Next, Google Cloud Security ran its Agentic SOC Experience workshop directly on Instruqt, with measurable impact on how customers learn and adopt agentic AI:

• 150+ practitioners trained over three Agentic AI workshops, each with their own dedicated Vertex environment.
• Every participant walked away understanding what an agent is, the primitive features built into an agent, and how to use them.
• Arepeatable workshop and Capture the Flag motion the team can now scale across global customer events.

"On the AI front, Instruqt is fantastic because it allows us to spin up a dedicated Vertex environment per participant. And that gives them the ability to experience the agentic capabilities, build their own agents, leverage those AI capabilities, but in their own secure little sandbox."

Keith Manville, Pre-Sales Engineer, Google Cloud Security

For Keith, the takeaway for the broader market is clear: in an industry where you can't walk a conference floor without seeing "agentic" or "AI," the practitioners who get hands-on are the ones who get ahead. With Instruqt, Google Cloud Security has the engine to make that happen at the speed AI is moving.

"Just start using AI. With Instruqt, I use AI to help me build labs. I use AI in my labs. That's my journey, and then you can take it to the next level where you're actually building agents that work autonomously for you." Keith Manville, Pre-Sales Engineer, Google Cloud Security