Tag: Palo Alto Networks
NVIDIA launches platform aimed at securing autonomous AI agents
September 28, 2026SSN Staff
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—NVIDIA has unveiled the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, designed to help organizations govern and control autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents as enterprises increasingly deploy agentic AI across business operations, critical infrastructure and robotics applications.
The offering combines open-source software and hardware-level security controls intended to monitor agent behavior, enforce policies and prevent AI systems from exceeding authorized permissions.
The...
AXIS joins Palo Alto Networks initiative
September 4, 2026SSN Staff
CHELMSFORD, Mass. – Axis Communications has joined a strategic initiative created by Palo Alto Networks, the Frontier AI Critical Defense Program, to protect critical infrastructure from Frontier AI-driven exploits. As a founding partner in this program, Axis Communications will collaborate with Palo Alto Networks to provide joint customers with advanced, network-level protections designed to mitigate risks. “In a landscape where AI is shortening the window between vulnerability discovery...
Palo Alto Networks to acquire Chronosphere
November 21, 2025SSN Staff
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Chronosphere, a next-generation observability platform built to scale for the AI era.
This acquisition proposes strengthening Palo Alto Networks' ability to help organizations navigate a world where modern applications and AI workloads demand a unified data and security foundation. Chronosphere was built precisely for these current needs: a next-generation...
Mark Anderson joins Verkada Board of Directors
September 16, 2025SSN Staff
SAN MATEO, Calif.—Verkada, a provider of AI-powered physical security technology, has announced that Mark Anderson has joined its Board of Directors.
Anderson brings more than 25 years of technology leadership in high-growth public companies to Verkada’s Board. He currently serves on the board of 1Password.
In 2024, Anderson stepped off Cloudflare’s board to become its president of revenue. As CEO of Alteryx, he led the company to $1 billion in revenue, navigating...
Palo Alto Networks announces agreement to acquire CyberArk
July 31, 2025SSN Staff
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and NEWTON, Mass. — Palo Alto Networks and CyberArk, an identity security provider, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Palo Alto Networks will acquire CyberArk.
Under the terms of the agreement, CyberArk shareholders will receive $45.00 in cash and 2.2005 shares of Palo Alto Networks common stock for each CyberArk share. This represents an equity value of approximately $25 billion for CyberArk and a 26% premium to the unaffected 10-day...
Cohesity expands CERT with partnerships
January 9, 2025SSN Staff
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Cohesity has announced its expansion of the Cohesity Cyber Event Response Team (CERT) service to include partnerships with leading incident response (IR) vendors.
Cohesity stated that its CERT team has years of specialized incident response expertise and has helped numerous customers respond and recover quickly from high-stakes security events since its formation in 2021. By partnering with leading IR vendors such as Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, Arctic Wolf, Sophos, Fenix24,...
Socura launches SASE service
April 3, 2023SSN Staff
LONDON – UK based cyber security managed services specialist Socura announced the launch of its SASE service.
The managed SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) launched in partnership with Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma. Citing industry research, Socura expects SASE to be a $60 billion industry by 2027 thanks to the rise of “Flexible” working which the say was enshrined in UK law in December of 2022. Describing SASE as an emerging and complex technology with limited offering Socura...
Palo Alto announces acquisition of Cider Security
November 17, 2022Ken Showers
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – During its Q1 2023 financial results webcast Palo Alto Networks announced it had signed a definitive agreement to Israeli cybersecurity company Cider Security.
Palo Alto Networks said that with the addition of Cider Security’s software supply chain security capabilities, combined with the recent announced Software Composition Analysis (SCA) capabilities, the Prisma Cloud security platform becomes a “must-have” for organizations using cloud...
Rapid Response names Indira Emmadi as Vice President of Information Technology
October 28, 2022SSN Staff
SYRACUSE, N.Y., CORONA, Calif., and HENDERSON, Nev.—Rapid Response Monitoring Services, Inc. has announced the appointment of Indira Emmadi as Vice President of Information Technology.
Emmadi joins Rapid Response from Palo Alto Networks, where she served as a Solutions Engineer managing engagements with their key strategic accounts and led a team that provided cybersecurity solutions to organizations like Google and Microsoft for their cloud services globally.
She started her career working...
Palo Alto recognized in Gartner Magic Quadrant third year running
September 16, 2022SSN Staff
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Global cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks announce this week that they’ve been recognized for a third year as a leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software-defined Wide Arena Network (SD-WAN).
Palo Alta Networks earned the distinction when compared against 14 other evaluated vendors. The report evaluated the vendor’s “Ability to Execute” and their “Completeness of Vision”.
"We are thrilled to be recognized as a...