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GARTNER REPORT

# Palo Alto Networks Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner^®^ Magic Quadrant^™^ for Hybrid Mesh Firewall.

## Recognized as a Leader for the second consecutive time and **positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision**.

## One integrated platform for security across every environment.

Frontier AI is collapsing the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, while AI workloads, hybrid infrastructure and the cryptographic reset are rapidly expanding the attack surface. Fragmented firewall architectures and manual security operations were never designed for this speed, scale or complexity.

Palo Alto Networks transforms hybrid mesh firewall from a collection of enforcement products into a unified, intelligent security platform across hardware, virtual, cloud-native, container, SASE and browser environments.

With its latest Frontier AI Defense innovations, Palo Alto Networks is extending this platform to help organizations reduce exposure before attacks succeed, operate at machine speed, secure AI infrastructure and modernize digital trust for the post-quantum era.

Attributions: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall, 7 September 2026, Rajpreet Kaur Et Al.

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