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Palo Alto Networks Acquires IBM QRadar SaaS Assets, Accelerates XSIAM Migration
PANW acquires IBM QRadar SaaS security operations assets to drive customer migration to Cortex XSIAM. IBM Consulting assists deployment and migration. PANW becomes IBM's internal security operations standard. IBM retains consulting, managed security services, identity and data security businesses.
Palo Alto Networks Idira: Democratizing Privilege Control, AI Agent Identity as New Control Plane
Palo Alto Networks launches Idira, an identity security platform built on CyberArk PAM, extending privileged access control to every human, machine, and AI agent identity. Core features include Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP), JIT permissions, and an AI engine for automatically discovering hidden entitlements and recommending least privilege. Idira becomes PANW's third core platform alongside Strata and Cortex.
Palo Alto Acquires Portkey: Capturing AI Agent Security Control Plane
The Portkey acquisition represents Palo Alto's latest move in 'platform consolidation' strategy. Unlike CrowdStrike's 'best-of-breed' approach, Palo Alto is continuously acquiring to complete its AI security capability matrix. Post-acquisition, Palo Alto will possess a complete platform covering network, cloud, endpoint, security operations, and AI security.
Palo Alto Prisma AIRS 3.0: Protecting Agentic AI Full Lifecycle
Palo Alto Networks released Prisma AIRS 3.0, providing comprehensive protection covering AI Agent design to runtime. Also launched Prisma Browser for the Agentic AI era.
Palo Alto Completes $400M Koi Acquisition
Palo Alto completed $400M acquisition of Koi, creating Agentic Endpoint Security category. Koi protects AI coding agents like Claude Code.
Palo Alto Networks Launches Automated Quantum-Safe Migration Solution
Palo Alto Networks introduces a crypto-reset solution, offering automated encryption discovery, policy orchestration, and key management via its Strata, Prisma, and Cortex platforms to streamline migration to quantum-resistant cryptography. The solution employs automated workflows to assess existing encryption assets and manage key lifecycles, reducing manual errors. This moves quantum security from theoretical discussion to operational implementation.
Palo Alto Networks Launches AI-Native Security Platform Prisma AIRS
Palo Alto Networks launched Prisma AIRS, an AI-native security platform embedding protections into the AI application lifecycle for runtime security of models, data flows, and prompts. It addresses AI-specific risks like prompt injection and model abuse, shifting from reactive to built-in security paradigms.
Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud: Four Major AI Security Integrations
Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud announced deepened strategic partnership with four major AI enterprise security integrations. The collaboration integrates Palo Alto Prisma AIRS platform with Google Cloud infrastructure, delivering: 1) AI runtime security for Vertex AI and Agent Engine; 2) VM-Series firewall deep integration with Google Cloud Network Security; 3) Prisma SASE coordination with Google Cloud Interconnect; 4) full AI development lifecycle security coverage. The two companies have 75+ joint integrations with $2B+ Marketplace sales.