Effective cloud security requires more than technology: it requires the ability to deploy platforms correctly, tune them to the organization’s architecture, integrate them into daily operations, and maintain continuous improvement as environments evolve. This is the challenge that the combined approach of Spike Reply and Palo Alto Networks is designed to solve for European organizations undergoing cloud transformation. Spike Reply provides the engineering depth, cloud security knowledge, and hands-on expertise needed to translate platform capability into operational reality. Palo Alto Networks provides Cortex Cloud, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered, unified CNAPP that consolidates visibility, posture management, and threat detection across multi-cloud environments.