Tag: Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks announces Cortex Cloud Application Security Posture Management

Palo Alto Networks Inc. kicked off the annual Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas this week with today’s announcement of its Cortex Cloud Application Security Posture Management solution. The ASPM offering is designed to fix security issues before cloud and AI applications have been deployed. The traditional method of securing apps is a highly fragmented set of manual processes. Instead of a single, unified platform, developers rely on a collection of point products and manual processes that are disconnected from each other.

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Palo Alto Networks announces Cortex Cloud Application Security Posture Management

Analysis: Palo Alto Networks bolsters Its AI play with acquisition of CyberArk

Palo Alto Networks Inc.‘s announcement Tuesday of its intent to acquire CyberArk for $25 billion implies a heavy price tag, as its shares fell on the news. But I believe it to be a good, long-term strategic move for Palo Alto and a logical extension of its platformization strategy. Valuation is interesting to look at but highly overrated long-term. If an acquisition is a good one and helps transform a company, then the purchase price won’t matter over time. Consider the purchase of Mellanox Technologies Ltd. by Nvidia Corp., which was almost $7 billion in 2019.

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Analysis: Palo Alto Networks bolsters Its AI play with acquisition of CyberArk

Analysis: Palo Alto Networks introduces new security capabilities at RSAC Conference

Palo Alto Networks Inc. kicked off this week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco by introducing new capabilities for its ever-expanding security portfolio.

The announcements were focused on its two major platforms: network security and Cortex. Palo Alto Networks has introduced Prisma Access Browser 2.0 into its secure access service edge offering. In late 2023, Palo Alto acquired Talon to jump into the secure enterprise browser market and now it has made the offering part of its SASE stack.

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Analysis: Palo Alto Networks introduces new security capabilities at RSAC Conference

NHL and Palo Alto Networks ink multiyear partnership

This was a big week for Palo Alto Networks Inc., as the cybersecurity market leader celebrated turned 20 this week with multiple activities, including its “Ignite on Tour” event in New York and ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. At Ignite Wednesday, Palo Alto announced a multiyear partnership with the National Hockey League to strengthen cybersecurity across the league — from behind-the-scenes operations to what fans experience online and in arenas.

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NHL and Palo Alto Networks ink multiyear partnership

Palo Alto Networks ups the security ante with new Cortex Cloud

Palo Alto Networks Inc. last week unveiled its newest cloud security offering, Cortex Cloud. The latest iteration of the company’s Prisma Cloud, it’s natively built on Palo Alto’s Cortex AI-enabled security operations platform. In its announcement, Palo Alto described Cortex Cloud as combining Cortex’s “best-in-class cloud detection and response (CDR) with industry-leading cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) from Prisma Cloud for real-time cloud security.”

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Palo Alto Networks ups the security ante with new Cortex Cloud