Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of Protect AI

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[{"type":"text","content":"Extends AI security leadership with comprehensive protection for the entire AI lifecycle\nSANTA CLARA, Calif., July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks® (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Protect AI, an innovative leader in securing Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and models. The acquisition accelerates Palo Alto Networks' commitment to securing the next generation of technology infrastructure, a landscape increasingly defined by the rapid proliferation of AI. The result is a single company to meet the demand from organizations across every major industry—from finance, government, and healthcare to manufacturing and retail—all of whom are leveraging AI to innovate, establishing Palo Alto Networks as the definitive standard for comprehensive AI security.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nThe integration of Protect AI's forward-thinking technology and its team of experts will be a cornerstone of Palo Alto Networks' Prisma® AIRS™, the industry's most comprehensive AI security platform. Organizations are increasingly building complex ecosystems of AI models, applications, and agents. This creates a dynamic new attack surface with risks that traditional security approaches cannot address. The combination of Protect AI and Palo Alto Networks brings together model scanning, posture management, AI red teaming, runtime protection, and AI agent security, enabling Prisma AIRS to help businesses confidently deploy AI-driven innovation while ensuring a formidable security posture from development through runtime.\nAnand Oswal, SVP and GM of Network Security, Palo Alto Networks, said:\"The promise of AI is immense, but so are the security risks. Our customers are moving quickly to adopt AI and are asking for a partner who can secure their entire AI ecosystem at scale. Protect AI's capabilities are a powerful complement to our innovative Prisma AIRS platform, and scales our ability to provide both depth and breadth in AI security to deliver protection across the entire AI lifecycle.\"\nProtect AI CEO Ian Swanson joins Palo Alto Networks as VP, Product, Prisma AIRS, comments:\"Joining forces with Palo Alto Networks propels our team and AI security platform into a new era of scale and impact. Our vision has always been to make AI secure, safe, and trustworthy for everyon...

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