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Putting OpenAI Cyber Models to Work for Defenders

Putting OpenAI Cyber Models to Work for Defenders

Unit 42 is putting the latest frontier cyber models to work across customer environments to find, validate and help remediate the attack paths that matter most.
Aug 12, 2026

The Cryptographic Reset: Building Future-Ready Trust and Resilience with PA...

Digital security has reached a breaking point where the foundation of trust is now a primary source of operational risk. For decades, t...
Aug 20, 2026
Blocking Attacker Infrastructure at the Network Layer: Advanced IP Defense for PAN-OS 12.2
The Water-Sector Reckoning Is Here — and the Controls That Stop It Already Exist

The Water-Sector Reckoning Is Here — and the Controls That Stop It Already ...

Recently, a coordinated intrusion locked operators out of water and wastewater controls across more than 30 Minnesota communities.1 Wit...
Aug 17, 2026
Your EDR is Blind to the Agentic Frontier

Your EDR is Blind to the Agentic Frontier

We are living through a massive shift in how teams get work done. For years, the industry talked about digital transformation as a distant vision. Today, it is happening in real time right at the front of every employee screen. AI is no longer a simple feature. It has bec...
Aug 10, 2026
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NIST and PQC Readiness: Managing the Quantum-Safe Shift

NIST and PQC Readiness: Managing the Quantum-Safe Shift

The standardization of NIST's PQC algorithms has marked the start of a new era in cybersecurity defined by immediate and decisive actio...
Aug 05, 2026

Gartner® named Palo Alto Networks as a Company to Beat in AI Network Securi...

Gartner's recognition of Palo Alto Networks in AI Network Security for Telcos validates our strategic focus on 5G-Native Security and P...
Aug 05, 2026

Network Security Blogs

Redefining Network Security for the Frontier AI Era

Redefining Network Security for the Frontier AI Era

Modern enterprise security is at a pivotal moment where CIOs and CISOs have a clear opportunity to build a cybersecurity architecture for both today’s environment, and for the future. Doing so requires redefini...
Aug 04, 2026
Scale Network Security beyond Human Limits: Introducing Network Security Agents in PAN-OS 12.2

Scale Network Security beyond Human Limits: Introducing Network Security Ag...

Built into Strata Cloud Manager, Network Security Agents help teams investigate, plan and execute complex security work—starting with human oversight...

The Cryptographic Reset: Building Future-Ready Trust and Resilience with PA...

Digital security has reached a breaking point where the foundation of trust is now a primary source of operational risk. For decades, the quiet bedroc...
Aug 20, 2026
Blocking Attacker Infrastructure at the Network Layer: Advanced IP Defense for PAN-OS 12.2

Blocking Attacker Infrastructure at the Network Layer: Advanced IP Defense ...

Our Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS) have set the industry standard for enterprise threat protection for a long time, consistently stopping co...
Harnessing AI for Prevention: Introducing “Frontier Virtual Patching

Harnessing AI for Prevention: Introducing “Frontier Virtual Patching" with ...

"Frontier Virtual Patching" moves beyond reactive IPS to deliver preemptive, vaulted protections before vulnerabilities are publicly disclosed or offi...
Aug 20, 2026

Securing the Critical Infrastructure Edge

Introducing the PA-50R Family of Ruggedized, 5G-enabled NGFWsCritical infrastructure is undergoing a massive operational shift. Electrical grids, ship...
Aug 20, 2026
The Water-Sector Reckoning Is Here — and the Controls That Stop It Already Exist

The Water-Sector Reckoning Is Here — and the Controls That Stop It Already ...

Recently, a coordinated intrusion locked operators out of water and wastewater controls across more than 30 Minnesota communities.1 Within days, the c...
Aug 17, 2026
Behavioral Threat: Advancing Insider Risk Management

Behavioral Threat: Advancing Insider Risk Management

Your biggest data risk isn't outside the perimeter, it's trusted users quietly moving sensitive files. Palo Alto Networks Behavioral Threats streamlines insider risk management by...
Aug 11, 2026

SASE Blogs

ADEM Extends Digital Experience Monitoring to Browser-based Voice and Video Calls

ADEM Extends Digital Experience Monitoring to Browser-based Voice and Video...

Beyond applications. Beyond browsing. Expanded Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) capabilities for every real-time voice and video conver...
Aug 13, 2026

Expand Security From Network to User: What’s New With Prisma Browser and Ne...

Securing the modern workspace can be complex, because a surge of web, SaaS, GenAI, and private apps are creating more places that traditional inline security can’t reach. This give...
Aug 20, 2026
Introducing Secure Agentless Access to SaaS and Private Web Apps on BYOD with Remote Browser Isolation

Introducing Secure Agentless Access to SaaS and Private Web Apps on BYOD wi...

Following our recent announcement regarding the evolution of Privileged Remote Access into Secure Agentless Access (SAA), we are thrilled to introduce the next major leap in our true agentless security architecture: Natively...
Behavioral Threat: Advancing Insider Risk Management

Behavioral Threat: Advancing Insider Risk Management

Your biggest data risk isn't outside the perimeter, it's trusted users quietly moving sensitive files. Palo Alto Networks Behavioral Th...
Aug 11, 2026
Palo Alto Networks Elevates Multi-Tenant Prisma SASE Management with a Reimagined Portal for MSPs

Palo Alto Networks Elevates Multi-Tenant Prisma SASE Management with a Reim...

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, managing a multi-tenant Secure Access Servi...
The Future of Data Security: Building a Smarter Defense with Context

The Future of Data Security: Building a Smarter Defense with Context

The future of data security isn't about collecting more signals. It's about building a shared context layer. As AI agents, machine iden...
Jul 29, 2026
How to Automate Remote IT Support with the GlobalProtect ServiceNow Integration

How to Automate Remote IT Support with the GlobalProtect ServiceNow Integra...

Imagine the following: you are just minutes away from leading a critical client call or pushing a major code update, when suddenly the...
A New Approach to Export Control Compliance in a Borderless World

A New Approach to Export Control Compliance in a Borderless World

In the modern IT environment, an "export" is triggered not only by physical shipment but also by the electronic transmission of control...

Cloud Security Blogs

Build Trust into the SDLC with Cortex Cloud’s Software Supply Chain Security

Build Trust into the SDLC with Cortex Cloud’s Software Supply Chain Securit...

Software supply chain security helps organizations prevent risk, measure software integrity and respond faster across AI-powered development with Cort...
Aug 05, 2026
The AI Blind Spot in AWS S3 Vectors—And How to Close It

The AI Blind Spot in AWS S3 Vectors—And How to Close It

Discover AWS S3 Vector indexes with Cortex Cloud AI-SPM to secure sensitive AI data, fix misconfigurations, and trace Bedrock agent access.
Aug 13, 2026
Neutralize Cloud Threats, Stop the Attack Path

Neutralize Cloud Threats, Stop the Attack Path

If you work in cloud security, you already know the problem isn't a lack of alerts. It’s the volume of them. On any given day, your security tool might show three dozen "critical" vulnerabilities, overly permis...
Aug 11, 2026

Cortex Cloud Named Overall Leader in KuppingerCole’s 2026 CNAPP Compass

Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud named an Overall Leader for Product, Innovation and Market Categories in the 2026 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for CNAPP.
Aug 10, 2026
Introducing Cortex Cloud 2.2: Defend Against Frontier AI Threats

Introducing Cortex Cloud 2.2: Defend Against Frontier AI Threats

As Frontier AI accelerates software development and enables attackers to discover vulnerabilities, chain exploits, and c...
Jul 28, 2026
Stop Evasive Cloud Threats with Agentless Malware Sandboxing

Stop Evasive Cloud Threats with Agentless Malware Sandboxing

Agentless malware sandboxing stops evasive, zero-day cloud threats. Cortex Cloud actively detonates unknown files to secure your CNAPP and CI/CD pipel...
Jul 28, 2026
Your Riskiest Kubernetes Workload Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Your Riskiest Kubernetes Workload Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Kubernetes security is complex. Cortex Cloud's KSPM Graph visually maps your environment so you can instantly prioritize and fix your riskiest workloa...
Jul 21, 2026
Inside Black Hat Asia 2026: What We Learned from Deploying Quantum-safe Security

Inside Black Hat Asia 2026: What We Learned from Deploying Quantum-safe Sec...

The reality of quantum computing is no longer a distant academic theory; it is an impending shift that demands immediate action from cybersecurity lea...

Security Operations Blogs

A Quarter of Innovation with Koi Agentic Endpoint Security

A Quarter of Innovation with Koi Agentic Endpoint Security

Protect endpoints from autonomous AI risks with Koi Agentic Endpoint Security—get full visibility, runtime policy control, and automated remediation....
Aug 18, 2026
Finland, Meet the AI-Driven SOC

Finland, Meet the AI-Driven SOC

Cortex services are now available from a cloud location in Finland, helping organizations support local data residency and modern security operations.
Aug 12, 2026
SE Labs Awards Palo Alto Networks the Anti-Tampering Certification

SE Labs Awards Palo Alto Networks the Anti-Tampering Certification

Breaching a network is merely the opening move. The real prize for an attacker is silencing the security agent, unlocking complete free...
Aug 11, 2026
Announcing the Public Preview of Cortex Data Security: Unified Data Protection for the AI Era

Announcing the Public Preview of Cortex Data Security: Unified Data Protect...

Data security platform solutions secure organizational data across cloud, SaaS, and AI env...
Aug 11, 2026
Your EDR is Blind to the Agentic Frontier

Your EDR is Blind to the Agentic Frontier

We are living through a massive shift in how teams get work done. For years, the industry talked about digital transformation as a distant vision. Today, it is happening in real time right at the front of every employee screen. AI is no longer a simple feature. It has bec...
Aug 10, 2026
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Identity Meets the SOC: Redefining the Last Perimeter
Living Off the Cloud: Analyzing AWS Systems Manager Attack Vectors

Living Off the Cloud: Analyzing AWS Systems Manager Attack Vectors

Learn how adversaries abuse AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for "Living Off the Cloud" attacks to execute code and move laterally between clo...
Aug 04, 2026

Identity Security Blogs

Every Identity Is Privileged. Here’s How You Actually Control It.

Every Identity Is Privileged. Here’s How You Actually Control It.

At IMPACT in May, I said that every identity in the enterprise is privileged, and that the controls we built for administrators have to reach all iden...
Aug 17, 2026
Idira Identity Security Platform Achieves GovRAMP Authorization

Idira Identity Security Platform Achieves GovRAMP Authorization

Key Takeaway: Palo Alto Networks has achieved GovRAMP High Authorization for the Idira® Identity Security Platform. Building on Idira’s...
Aug 13, 2026
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IdentitySecOps: The Closed-Loop Model for AI-Speed Defense 

IdentitySecOps: The Closed-Loop Model for AI-Speed Defense 

For 25 years, enterprise security has tolerated a structural flaw: treating the identity security team and the Security Operations Center, or SOC, as separate silos. Instead of rap...
Aug 05, 2026
Idira Identity Security Platform: Discover Every Privilege (Part 2)

Idira Identity Security Platform: Discover Every Privilege (Part 2)

Key Takeaway: Identity and privilege discovery continuously maps access risks across human...
Aug 04, 2026
Is Your IdP a Lightweight at Identity Governance?
Why Cryptographically Verifiable SPIFFE Identity is Key to Scaling AI Agents

Why Cryptographically Verifiable SPIFFE Identity is Key to Scaling AI Agent...

What if your workforce were multiplied by a thousand overnight? Only these workers don't s...
Jul 20, 2026
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What Does "Democratizing Privilege Controls" Mean? (Part 1)

Ever since IMPACT, the energy from the Idira launch has been unstoppable. The customer con...
Jul 01, 2026
Idira Identity Security Platform Reaches FedRAMP High Milestone

Idira Identity Security Platform Reaches FedRAMP High Milestone

Executive Summary: Palo Alto Networks has achieved FedRAMP High Authorization for its Identity Security Platform, providing federal age...
Jun 03, 2026

AI Security Blogs

Announcing the General Availability of Prisma AIRS AI Gateway

Announcing the General Availability of Prisma AIRS AI Gateway

Every modern enterprise is moving from an organization run by software to one orchestrated by AI, creating a tension bet...
Jul 16, 2026
The Water-Sector Reckoning Is Here — and the Controls That Stop It Already Exist

The Water-Sector Reckoning Is Here — and the Controls That Stop It Already ...

Recently, a coordinated intrusion locked operators out of water and wastewater controls across more than 30 Minnesota communities.1 Wit...
Aug 17, 2026
Your EDR is Blind to the Agentic Frontier

Your EDR is Blind to the Agentic Frontier

We are living through a massive shift in how teams get work done. For years, the industry talked about digital transformation as a distant vision. Today, it is happening in real time right at the front of every employee screen. AI is no longer a simple feature. It has bec...
Aug 10, 2026
By  and
NIST and PQC Readiness: Managing the Quantum-Safe Shift

NIST and PQC Readiness: Managing the Quantum-Safe Shift

The standardization of NIST's PQC algorithms has marked the start of a new era in cybersecurity defined by immediate and decisive actio...
Aug 05, 2026
Eliminate Lateral Threats and Reduce Hybrid Cloud Complexity with Microsegmentation

Eliminate Lateral Threats and Reduce Hybrid Cloud Complexity with Microsegm...

As enterprises navigate complex multi-cloud environments, the risk of threats is pervasive in lateral traffic flows and most microsegmentation solutions are simply too complex to s...
Jul 23, 2026
Palo Alto Networks Named

Unit 42 Threat Research

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Identity Abuse Through Trusted Communication Channels

Unit 42 details how attackers exploit enterprise collaboration tools for identity phishing and credential theft. Discover key defense strategies....
August 20, 2026
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Threat Brief: Mitigating Large-Scale Credential Attacks (Updated ...

In August 2026, the actor TheHatman claimed to have stolen large volume of credentials from organizations' Microsoft Entra tenants. We provide guidance on mitig...
August 18, 2026
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Kimwolf v7: An Evolution of the Kimwolf Botnet

Discover how Kimwolf v7 targets Android IoT devices with HTTP/2 DDoS fingerprinting, Ethereum ENS C2 resolution and Tor backup routing....
August 11, 2026
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The Permanent Threat: Analyzing Aeternum’s Blockchain-Based C2 Op...

Analysis of the Aeternum botnet loader, a threat leveraging Polygon blockchain smart contracts for decentralized C2 infrastructure and payload execution....
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Inside the Modern SOC: The Identity Front Door

Identity-based attacks drive 90% of incidents. Learn how modern attackers exploit identities and what SOC leaders can do to respond....
August 7, 2026
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ChainDrop: Inside a Self-Propagating npm Worm

Analysis of ChainDrop, an npm supply chain worm extracting GitHub Actions runner secrets and using Ethereum smart contracts for C2 routing....
August 6, 2026
By  Unit 42
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Token Jacking: Cybercriminals Could Be Stealing Your AI Resources

Discover how attackers hijack AI tokens to fuel gray market transfer stations by stealing developer API keys....
August 6, 2026
By  Unit 42
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The Frontier AI Vulnerability Burst: Industrializing Autonomous Z...

Frontier AI is reshaping vulnerability discovery. Learn how our NOVA system found 14,000+ unknown vulnerabilities across the open-source software supply chain....
August 4, 2026
By  Xu Zou

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