Palo Alto Networks Unveils Prisma SASE 4.0: AI-Driven Security for the Modern Enterprise

Palo Alto Networks gets ready for an AI-centric world with Prisma SASE 4.0 - SiliconANGLE

Palo Alto Networks gets ready for an AI-centric world with Prisma SASE 4.0 Palo Alto Networks Inc. today added more capabilities to its fast-growing Prisma SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform by leveraging AI to create what the company calls "a blueprint for the AI-ready enterprise." The Secure Access Service Edge service delivers protection against AI-powered threats, data security that adapts to how information flows, and unified operations capable of intelligent scaling. These new features break the mold of "legacy SASE," which is focused on replacement of traditional wide-area network technology with cloud-first offerings. All the new features in Prisma SASE 4.0 are geared toward enabling companies to protect against AI-driven threats and to safeguard data wherever it resides or moves to. The innovations of Prisma 4.0 focus on three key areas: For Palo Alto, SASE has been a strong growth engine. On its recent earnings call, Chief Executive Nikesh Arora (pictured) discussed the importance of SASE and its contribution to total contract value and annualized recurring revenue. "This quarter, we won our largest SASE deal ever, a $60 million contract with a global professional services firm covering nearly 200,000 seats," he noted. "This was in addition to a record number of eight-figure SASE deals. We're gaining share. For the last year, we displaced incumbent SASE vendors in over 70 accounts exceeding $200 million in TCV. Our SASE ARR grew 35% year-over-year more than twice as fast as the overall market. We now have over 6,300 SASE customers and account for one-third of the Fortune 500." Adding to its portfolio of features in its SASE platform, particularly with AI focused features, will strengthen is offering and make it significantly stickier, making it harder to do to Palo Alto as what it's currently doing to others. Since threat actors have access to the same AI tools as enterprises, it's an ever-escalating arms race, with the good guys doing all they can to stay ahead of the bad guys. With browser-centric attacks capable of bypassing network controls as attackers use malware designed to take advantage of interactive sessions by weaponizing the domain name systems, Palo Alto is providing enterprises with more powerful tools for the battle. With Prisma SASE 4.0, Palo Alto is bringing security directly into the user's experience to stop threats as they appear. The company said the AI-powered Advanced Web Protection in the Prisma Access Browser inspects fully rendered web pages in real time, catching threats that only trigger after page load or user interaction, without requiring transport-layer decryption. This provides markedly better security versus trying to train users to figure out whether a page is legitimate or not. Other new capabilities include Private Application Security, which consolidates application firewall layers, automatically generating application fingerprints. This enables enterprises to detect anomalies and block botnets, API abuse and unpatched "day zero" exploits without relying on constant manual updates. In a pre-announcement briefing, Carmine Clementelli, director of SASE product marketing for Palo Alto Networks, highlighted the value of the company's new AI Agent Security capabilities. "It allows us to provide visibility to all AI agents that are involved," he said. "Right now, we support Microsoft Copilot Studio and ServiceNow platforms, where all the agents can be deployed. And we provide visibility into all the agents that connect to corporate SaaS applications and their risks and over-permissions. Customers can see all the agents, all their risks, and can help stop unauthorized data access for these agents." Traditional data loss prevention or DLP approaches, which were designed for structured fields and keyword-based rules, aren't built to stop unstructured content, for example images, source code or AI-generated text. This creates many blind spots which leads to a flood of false positives. Prisma SASE 4.0 addresses this with the inclusion of SaaS Security Posture Management, which provides continuous, real-time visibility into the behavior of software-as-a-service-based AI agents, copilots and plugins that now connect directly to corporate data, accelerating productivity but also expanding risk. The company says the latest version of Prisma SASE continuously discovers and monitors SaaS-based AI agents, giving administrators visibility into which agents are accessing sensitive data, how they are being used and where risks emerge. The guardrails govern user interactions and block unauthorized access, adding to its AI protection. This ensures organizations can adopt AI responsibly without stalling innovation. Palo Alto says the new capabilities and other key SASE features will be available later this year.

Palo Alto Networks Unveils Protection for Highly Evasive Threats with Prisma Browser, Extending SASE Leadership

Prisma SASE 4.0 protects against highly evasive threats that assemble inside the browser, offers AI-augmented data classification, and secures today's dynamic private applications. Scaling SASE beyond $1.3B in ARR,[1] providing best-in-class security to one-third of the Fortune 500 Today, Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, announced Prisma SASE 4.0, the industry's most advanced AI-driven secure access service edge (SASE) solution. It sets a new standard with innovations in Prisma Browser that neutralize sophisticated web threats in real-time directly within the browser, where legacy solutions have critical blind spots. It's designed to intercept and neutralize encrypted, evasive attacks that assemble inside the browser and bypass traditional secure web gateways. The browser is becoming the new operating system for the enterprise, the primary interface for AI and cloud applications. Securing it is not optional. As more critical applications and data reside within the browser, traditional consumer-grade browsers are no longer sufficient for businesses as they lack the necessary security controls to protect against the increasing number of cyberattacks. With Prisma SASE 4.0, Prisma Browser's new in-browser advanced web protection identifies and neutralizes malware in real-time before it can do harm. This provides a critical layer of defense that other solutions miss. In addition, Prisma SASE 4.0 delivers new capabilities designed to secure the modern workforce, including: Unprecedented Data Security powered by AI: Prisma SASE 4.0 offers a unified, frictionless data security approach, essential for protecting against the growing risks posed by AI agents, copilots, and plugins directly accessing corporate data. It uses AI-augmented classification to automatically and precisely classify sensitive information across all formats, including unstructured content and data in use - achieving 10x fewer false positives than traditional methods. It includes over 140 pre-trained machine learning classifiers and customizable models to secure critical assets like patents, contracts and source code. Smarter, Faster Protection with Private App Security: Private applications are the engine of many businesses and are prime targets for cyberattacks. Older static rule-based web application firewalls (WAF) are simply no match for threats custom-built for dynamic applications. Palo Alto Networks' new Private App Security automatically adapts to shield these essential applications and constantly updates security policies for applications. Anand Oswal, Executive Vice President of Network Security, Palo Alto Networks 'The conversation with business leaders has evolved. It's no longer just about blocking threats-it's about enabling growth. You can't achieve that with a complex and disjointed security stack. The innovations in Prisma SASE 4.0, particularly our last-mile protections in the browser, are a direct response to the digital landscape, where AI-driven attacks and the widespread adoption of AI tools are making traditional security approaches obsolete. By neutralizing sophisticated threats that evade legacy solutions and directly target the browser, we are setting a new standard for security.' Palo Alto Networks continues to demonstrate market leadership and disruptive innovation in SASE, with SASE ARR reaching $1.3 billion in fiscal year 2025, growing 35% year-over-year-more than twice the rate of the overall market. For three consecutive years, Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms for Prisma SASE. In addition, Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader for three consecutive years in the Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge, and five times in the Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN. With over 6,300 SASE customers, including one-third of the Fortune 500, this single-vendor platform simplifies operations and provides a clear path to scale, with adoption of the Prisma Browser surpassing 6 million licensed seats. These innovations and other key SASE features will be generally available later this year. To learn more, read the blog. Follow Palo Alto Networks on X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. Gartner Disclaimer GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. 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