Palo Alto stories

Crimson Education names former New Zealand prime minister Sir John Key chair as it accelerates global expansion and ramps up AI-driven growth.

Palo Alto overhauls NextWave to reward partners building AI-driven security platforms and services over traditional product sales volume.

Anthropic adds Claude plugins to Cowork, fuelling investor fears that agent-style AI could undermine traditional seat-based software.

AI, hybrid cloud and SASE are driving a shift from security sprawl to consolidation, with unified policy control now the top priority.

Oxford optical AI spin-out Lumai names ex-Palo Alto Networks marketer René Bonvanie as board chair to spearhead its push into commercialisation.

Cybersecurity as a Service market forecast to soar from USD $17.60bn in 2024 to USD $83.96bn by 2034, driven by threats and skills gaps.

Veeam reshapes its top team with three senior hires to sharpen its global data resilience, security and AI-driven growth strategy.

Misconfigured cloud training labs on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure expose major firms to live attacks via overly permissive access roles.

Integrity360 acquires Calgary-based Advantus360 to spearhead its North American push and launch a new cyber hub for Canada and the US.

The UK has appointed 13 Software Security Ambassadors, including Cisco and Lloyds, to drive adoption of its new secure code of practice.

First Connect’s digital insurance marketplace tops USD $500m in GWP, fuelled by rising demand from independent agents and carriers.

Cyber attacks on SaaS platforms are soaring, pushing boards to make AI‑driven security a core strategy as misconfigurations fuel mass breaches.

MITRE warns that cheap face-swap deepfakes can defeat banks’ remote KYC checks, bypassing liveness tools to open fraudulent accounts.

Gartner names Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Palo Alto Networks as frontrunners in nearly 30 fiercely contested AI market “races”.

Proofpoint crowned a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Email Security, topping rivals on Ability to Execute for a second year.

Cohesity has honoured global and APAC partners including NVIDIA, AWS and NCS for driving AI-led data security and cyber resilience.

Singulr AI hires veteran tech leader Bask Iyer as Strategic Advisor to guide CIOs on governance amid rapid enterprise adoption of agentic AI.

Dubai-based Secure.com launches AI-native Digital Security Teammates to help cybersecurity teams tackle USD $10.5 trillion in global cybercrime damages.

TELUS launches Quantum-Safe VPN with encryption designed to protect Canadian businesses from current and future quantum computing cyber threats.

The City of London partners with Roc Technologies in a deal to deploy the UK's first public sector SASE network across 200+ locations.