Palo Alto Networks Unveils AI-Powered Cybersecurity Agents to Combat Rising Cyber Threats

Palo Alto launches AI-driven security offerings to tackle cyberattacks

Palo Alto Networks is enhancing its AI-powered cybersecurity with new Cortex Cloud and Prisma AIRS platforms, integrating Protect AI's technology to secure AI applications. The company is also introducing agentic AI tools for cloud security, emphasizing human oversight in automated responses. These advancements aim to address rising hacking incidents and infrastructure compromises impacting global businesses. Palo Alto Networks is expanding its artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity offerings, as clients seek to secure their business operations from rising hacking incidents. Palo Alto's AI tools, combined with its planned acquisition of Israeli peer CyberArk Software, are deepening its security offerings amid a wave of high-profile cyberattacks that has hit global companies, including F5 and UnitedHealth Group. Chief Executive Nikesh Arora said some recent breaches underscore how back-end infrastructure compromises can expose thousands of customers by revealing vulnerabilities in shared source code. Palo Alto launched new versions of its cloud security platform, Cortex Cloud, and AI application security platform Prisma AIRS on Tuesday. The company said Prisma AIRS 2.0 integrates technology from its recently acquired Seattle-based startup Protect AI, creating a combined platform to secure AI applications from development to deployment. It also uses AI systems to automatically find loopholes in other such systems. The Cortex Cloud 2.0 now incorporates agentic platform Cortex AgentiX and a cloud command center, its unified view of cloud assets to showcase risks and threats across cloud services of multiple providers. Customers will have the ability to tailor those agents for specific user roles, Arora said, adding the pricing of the new agentic AI offerings would be consistent with the company's existing Cortex XSOAR platform that unifies and automates incident response across all security tools. "We're not going to take actions where the customers can't reverse them, or the customers can't have that a human in the middle type of activity. So most of our agents will have humans in the middle," he added. The agents are trained on 1.2 billion real-world security incident responses. Palo Alto's standalone AgentiX platform is expected to launch early next year, the company said.

Palo Alto Networks launches AI agents to automate defense against cyber threats

On Tuesday, Palo Alto Networks unveiled Cortex AgentiX, a new generation of artificial intelligence agents capable of automating certain critical cybersecurity tasks. These tools can investigate threats, respond to email compromises, and interact with third-party security systems. Available now on several of the group's cloud services, they will be integrated into a dedicated platform scheduled for release in 2026. The goal is to meet the growing demand from businesses for solutions capable of responding quickly to increasingly sophisticated attacks, while remaining supervised by human analysts. CEO Nikesh Arora emphasized that automation has become essential in an environment where cyberattacks are intensifying. "Some companies still believe they are completely secure, but that is an illusion," he warned, pointing out that even major players such as F5 have recently been victims of state-sponsored hacking. This announcement is part of a global reorganization strategy at Palo Alto Networks, marked by the integration of Israeli specialist CyberArk, acquired for $25bn. The group intends to combine artificial intelligence and cybersecurity on a large scale, focusing on technologies capable of strengthening the detection, response, and resilience of systems. "We look for good products, teams capable of developing them, and then we give them the means to manage them," Arora said on CNBC, confirming the group's desire to become a key player in automated security.

Palo Alto Networks launches AI-driven security offerings to tackle cyberattacks

(Reuters) -Palo Alto Networks is expanding its artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity offerings, as clients seek to secure their business operations from rising hacking incidents. The company's AI tools, combined with its planned acquisition of Israeli peer CyberArk Software, are deepening its security offerings amid a wave of high-profile cyberattacks that has hit global companies, including F5 and UnitedHealth Group. Chief Executive Nikesh Arora said some recent breaches underscore how back-end infrastructure compromises can expose thousands of customers by revealing vulnerabilities in shared source code. Palo Alto launched new versions of its cloud security platform, Cortex Cloud, and AI application security platform Prisma AIRS on Tuesday. The company said Prisma AIRS 2.0 integrates technology from its recently acquired Seattle-based startup Protect AI, creating a combined platform to secure AI applications from development to deployment. It also uses AI systems to automatically find loopholes in other such systems. The Cortex Cloud 2.0 now incorporates agentic platform Cortex AgentiX and a cloud command center, its unified view of cloud assets to showcase risks and threats across cloud services of multiple providers. Customers will have the ability to tailor those agents for specific user roles, Arora said, adding the pricing of the new agentic AI offerings would be consistent with the company's existing Cortex XSOAR platform that unifies and automates incident response across all security tools. "We're not going to take actions where the customers can't reverse them, or the customers can't have that a human in the middle type of activity. So most of our agents will have humans in the middle," he added. The agents are trained on 1.2 billion real-world security incident responses. Palo Alto's standalone AgentiX platform is expected to launch early next year, the company said. Shares of the company were up around 1%. They have risen about 21% so far this year. (Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)

Palo Alto Networks Launches New AI Cybersecurity Agent Platform

Palo Alto Networks is launching a new platform to offer AI cybersecurity agents. The platform, called AgentiX, will include cybersecurity agents that can aggregate threat intelligence, investigate emails, deliver investigation analysis, secure networks and cloud environments and automate IT operations. Customers will also be able to build their own no-code agents through the platform. Palo Alto said AgentiX can deliver a 98% reduction in mean time to resolution of cybersecurity incidents with 75% less manual work. Write to Nicholas G. Miller at [email protected].