Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks is a California-based cybersecurity company that provides a comprehensive range of security solutions for organizations. The firm specializes in network security, cloud security, and security operations, making it a platform-based vendor in the cybersecurity space. With over 80,000 enterprise customers globally, Palo Alto Networks serves a significant portion of the Global 2000, demonstrating its prominent position in the industry. The company's offerings are designed to protect organizations from evolving cyber threats, ensuring robust security across various digital environments.

Nikesh Arora

CEO and Chairman

Rene Bonvanie

Executive Vice President

Niall Browne

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer

Gonen Fink

Senior Vice President

Daniel Kroese

Senior Director

Kunal Ruvala

Senior Vice President and General Manager, India

29 past transactions

Protect AI

Acquisition in 2025
Protect AI is a cybersecurity company focused on safeguarding machine learning and artificial intelligence systems from security threats. The company offers a platform that adheres to zero trust principles, ensuring that only secure and compliant AI models are utilized. Its technology continuously scans both third-party and in-house models for potential security vulnerabilities before deployment. Additionally, Protect AI provides detailed profiles of various threat categories, enabling organizations to enhance their security posture. With its comprehensive AI Security Posture Management capabilities, the company delivers end-to-end visibility and control, helping organizations maintain the integrity and safety of their AI applications throughout the machine learning lifecycle.

Wald.ai

Seed Round in 2024
Wald.ai is a technology company that specializes in developing AI-driven platforms for secure and efficient data management. Their primary product is a regulatory compliance management system that leverages AI assistants to prevent data leaks. These AI assistants can securely handle tasks such as querying data, generating code, or uploading documents, ensuring comprehensive data security and protecting clients' privacy and trade secrets. The company's mission is to enhance productivity, foster team collaboration, and ultimately improve financial outcomes for its clients.

IBM _ QRadar software-as-a-service

Acquisition in 2024
IBM _ QRadar software-as-a-service is a security intelligence platform.

Talon Cyber Security

Acquisition in 2023
Talon Cyber Security is a provider of innovative cybersecurity solutions tailored for the distributed workforce. The company offers a next-generation secure browser that delivers enterprise-grade security to both managed and unmanaged devices, regardless of their location, type, or operating system. By addressing the unique threats associated with remote work and increased cloud usage, Talon empowers businesses to enhance productivity and flexibility while maintaining robust cybersecurity measures. Its technology is designed to effectively mitigate risks posed by the evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, making it a valuable partner for organizations navigating the complexities of a hybrid work environment.

Dig Security

Acquisition in 2023
Dig Security is a cloud data security startup that specializes in providing real-time visibility, control, and protection for data assets across multiple cloud environments. As enterprises face challenges related to data exfiltration and policy violations amidst increasingly complex database settings, Dig Security offers a cloud-native and agentless solution. Its platform enables businesses to effectively manage cloud data sprawl while ensuring the security of their data without hindering operational efficiency. By integrating Data Detection & Response (DDR) capabilities, Dig Security empowers organizations to discover, monitor, and protect their cloud data in real time, delivering comprehensive threat protection services for data stored in public cloud infrastructures.

d-Matrix

Series B in 2023
D-Matrix is a computing platform dedicated to enhancing artificial intelligence inferencing workloads within data centers. The company aims to create and implement the world's first brain-inspired AI compute engine, catering to a diverse range of inferencing tasks in the expansive cloud and infrastructure edge markets. D-Matrix's innovative approach leverages in-memory computing techniques and addresses the challenges of memory-compute integration through a combination of mixed-signal and digital signal processing methods. This focus on efficiency enables clients to optimize their computing capabilities, particularly in the realms of generative artificial intelligence and large language models.

Spera

Seed Round in 2023
Spera is an identity security posture management platform that focuses on providing proactive protection against identity-driven attacks for enterprises. The platform enhances the capabilities of identity teams by detecting, prioritizing, and remediating potential breaches. Spera delivers risk visibility and context, utilizing automation to continuously identify risks within an organization’s identity framework. Additionally, it offers comprehensive reporting on the security landscape, providing actionable insights that enable clients to improve their security measures based on user correlations, identity analytics, and usage patterns.

Cider Security

Acquisition in 2022
Cider Security is an innovative company that offers an AppSec Operating System tailored for security and engineering teams. Founded in late 2020 by cybersecurity veterans Guy Flechter and Daniel Krivelevich, the company provides a unified platform that streamlines the orchestration and implementation of end-to-end security within continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes. By adopting a holistic approach to securing engineering systems from code to deployment, Cider Security creates a comprehensive Technical DNA of the engineering environment. This enables security teams to gain essential transparency and visibility, allowing them to optimize application security and enhance resilience. The company's mission is to address the prevalent challenges faced by Chief Information Security Officers and security engineers in today's fast-paced technological landscape.

Gamma.AI

Acquisition in 2021
Gamma.AI, now part of Palo Alto Networks, is an AI-driven platform specializing in enterprise data discovery, classification, and data loss prevention. The company focuses on analyzing cloud applications to provide a deep understanding of sensitive data, aiming to reduce false positive rates to less than 0.1%. Gamma.AI addresses critical data security questions, such as the location of confidential data, access permissions, and exposure of data keys. The platform enables organizations to customize remediation processes for data loss incidents across various cloud applications. Acquired by Palo Alto Networks within 2.5 years of its founding, Gamma.AI has become a foundational element of their core data protection technology.

Bridgecrew

Acquisition in 2021
Bridgecrew, Inc., founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in cloud security. The company's platform enables developers to codify cloud-security by automating deployment and management of security workflows. This includes providing remediations, guardrails, infrastructure as code templates, collaborative workspaces, community-powered solutions, native workflow automation, and connected analytics. Bridgecrew aims to simplify and make cloud security more accessible, helping development and engineering teams save time and money on ongoing security tasks.

Sinefa

Acquisition in 2020
Sinefa Inc, founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, develops an integrated Digital Experience Monitoring solution that enhances visibility across the entire service delivery chain. As a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Sinefa provides enterprises with a unified platform to monitor and improve digital experiences for users across various networks, applications, and clouds. The company distinguishes itself by scoring the digital experience for every transaction, offering insights into all components, including user interactions, network performance, application functionality, and cloud services. This approach allows clients to obtain real-time, predictive actionable insights and crowdsourced benchmarks, enabling them to enhance user experiences efficiently and effectively within complex multi-cloud environments.

Expanse

Acquisition in 2020
Expanse, Inc. is an enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in data marshalling services to enhance the security and management of global internet assets. Founded in 2012 and formerly known as Qadium, Inc., the company provides an innovative platform that offers organizations an updated view of their internet-connected assets. This platform enables IT and security teams to gain visibility into their global internet attack surface, identifying unknown assets and managing exposure to online threats. Expanse's technology indexes global IP addresses, DNS protocol information, and registration records, allowing organizations to improve governance and IT operations while minimizing risks associated with their internet presence. Trusted by major enterprises and government agencies, Expanse monitors and tracks over 400 million internet- and cloud-connected assets, representing more than 10% of the global Internet, to enhance awareness and prevent successful cyberattacks.

Crypsis

Acquisition in 2020
Crypsis Group, established in 2015 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, is a leading cybersecurity advisory firm specializing in incident response, risk management, and digital forensics. With offices across the U.S. in Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Austin, and Los Angeles, Crypsis offers a range of services including data breach response, cyber risk and resilience management, digital investigations, expert witness and litigation support, data analytics, and managed security services. The company's mission is to protect and secure organizations worldwide by providing elite cybersecurity expertise, global response capabilities, and innovative solutions to combat evolving cyber threats. Since September 2020, Crypsis Group has operated as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Prisma SD-WAN

Acquisition in 2020
Prisma SD-WAN, formerly known as CloudGenix, specializes in software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) solutions designed to support hybrid cloud environments and mobile workforces. The company offers a platform that virtualizes enterprise networks, facilitating user connectivity to cloud and data center applications while minimizing the infrastructure needed for remote offices. Its products centralize critical network functions, such as firewalling and threat detection, and include the ION 2000 hardware appliance, which provides essential SD-WAN capabilities for small and remote offices. By enabling application-specific service-level agreements (SLAs), Prisma SD-WAN enhances application performance based on business priorities. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company caters to various industries, including retail, financial services, automotive, legal, and technology, striving to simplify network design and management while delivering significant cost savings and enhanced security.

Axis Security

Series A in 2020
Axis Security Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California. It specializes in Zero Trust Network Access solutions, providing a cloud security platform that ensures secure remote access to applications. The company's technology focuses on application isolation and employs a context-aware approach to security, evaluating multiple factors to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources within a network. This business-centric strategy allows organizations to maintain control over sensitive information and manage access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders effectively.

HeadSpin

Series C in 2020
HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform aimed at ensuring flawless digital interactions. The platform leverages automation, artificial intelligence, and analytics to integrate end-to-end testing, performance optimization, and experience monitoring. It operates thousands of devices across more than 100 locations globally, utilizing real carrier and WiFi networks. This comprehensive approach enables development, quality assurance, operations, and product teams to remotely test and monitor mobile applications effectively, ultimately enhancing user experiences and boosting revenue.

Aporeto

Acquisition in 2019
Aporeto, Inc. is a developer of cloud-native security solutions focused on securing the deployment and operation of cloud-native applications. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California, the company specializes in providing enterprise security for agile distributed systems that utilize containers, microservices, and serverless architectures, as well as for legacy applications. Aporeto's platform offers identity-based access control designed to enforce a Zero Trust security posture across various infrastructures, including public, private, and hybrid clouds. One of its key offerings is the Aporeto Cloud Identity Framework, which provides a suite of identity-based security services that ensure consistent policy enforcement for both enterprise applications and managed services. Through its innovative solutions, Aporeto helps organizations protect their cloud applications from potential attacks by authenticating and authorizing all communications.

ZingBox

Acquisition in 2019
ZingBox, established in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, specializes in enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) security. It offers a real-time IoT security solution that discovers and protects connected equipment, safeguarding against cyber and insider threats. Primarily serving the healthcare and manufacturing industries, ZingBox's platform detects anomalous behavior, maps networks, and generates risk profiles. It operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

PureSec

Acquisition in 2019
PureSec Ltd., founded in 2016 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, specializes in developing a comprehensive cybersecurity platform tailored for serverless architectures. As a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, PureSec enables organizations to build and maintain secure serverless applications across various platforms, including AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, and IBM Cloud Functions. The company's innovative solution offers real-time protection against both known and unknown threats, facilitating the detection, prevention, and response to suspicious activities. By integrating seamlessly with serverless applications, PureSec allows businesses to focus on application development without the burden of managing infrastructure, ultimately leading to significant time and cost savings.

Twistlock

Acquisition in 2019
Twistlock Inc. is a provider of comprehensive security solutions for cloud-native applications, focusing on Docker container security for DevOps environments. Founded in 2015, the company offers a suite of products designed to protect applications throughout their development lifecycle and into production. Its flagship product, Twistlock, enables developers and security teams to safeguard container-based applications with features such as vulnerability management, compliance, access control, and runtime defense. Twistlock's Trust component scans images and registries to identify vulnerabilities and configuration errors, while Twistlock Runtime delivers real-time threat protection and policy enforcement. The company is trusted by a significant portion of the Fortune 100 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices in New York City, Baton Rouge, London, and Herzliya, Israel. As of July 2019, Twistlock operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Demisto

Acquisition in 2019
Demisto operates a security operations platform that integrates intelligent automation and collaboration into a single interface, facilitating incident response, process standardization, and threat hunting for security teams. The company's platform, which includes features like orchestration, incident management, and interactive investigation, helps organizations accelerate their response to security incidents and learn from them collaboratively. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Tel Aviv, Israel, Demisto has a strategic partnership with ProtectWise. As of March 28, 2019, Demisto operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks.

RedLock

Acquisition in 2018
RedLock, Inc. is a cybersecurity company that develops an infrastructure security platform designed to enhance security visibility and detect anomalies in dynamic environments. Founded in 2015 by Varun Badhwar and Gaurav Kumar, the company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its cloud-based platform automatically identifies workloads within an environment, providing continuous monitoring, anomaly detection, cloud forensics, adaptive response, and compliance reporting. This technology enables organizations to effectively manage security and compliance risks across their public cloud infrastructure, facilitating the acceleration of digital business while ensuring seamless collaboration between software developers and IT operations. As of October 2018, RedLock operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

SECDO

Acquisition in 2018
SECDO specializes in advanced cyber security solutions designed to enhance the efficiency of security operations teams in detecting, investigating, and addressing sophisticated threats. The company’s innovative platform provides continuous visibility into endpoint and server activity, allowing for the identification of suspicious behaviors and automated responses to incidents. SECDO's offerings include a comprehensive incident response platform that visualizes attack timelines, aiding analysts in understanding and remediating security events. The platform also incorporates features such as anti-ransomware capabilities, SIEM alert investigations, and enhanced endpoint visibility. Serving industries such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications, SECDO aims to transform incident response processes for global enterprises and managed security service providers (MSSPs), enabling faster investigations and effective remediation of complex cyber threats. Founded in 2014 and based in Ra'anana, Israel, SECDO operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks.

Evident.IO

Acquisition in 2018
Evident.io, Inc. is a security management company based in Pleasanton, California, that specializes in cloud infrastructure security. Founded in 2013, the company provides a software platform designed to enhance security and compliance in public cloud environments, particularly for Amazon Web Services. Its agentless and API-centric Evident Security Platform continuously monitors cloud resources, identifying security misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and compliance risks. By delivering actionable intelligence in a user-friendly format, Evident.io enables organizations of all sizes to effectively manage their security posture and swiftly remediate identified risks. The company's focus on making cloud security accessible and efficient caters to the needs of DevOps professionals, cloud engineers, and IT risk managers, thus bridging the gap between agile development and robust security practices. In 2018, Evident.io was acquired by Palo Alto Networks, further expanding its capabilities within the cybersecurity landscape.

LightCyber

Acquisition in 2017
LightCyber Ltd. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2011 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel. It specializes in developing behavioral attack detection solutions aimed at identifying and preventing cyber-attacks and advanced persistent threats (APT). The company's flagship product, LightCyber Magna, integrates user, network, and endpoint context to deliver comprehensive security visibility into various attack activities. This platform enables organizations to detect and respond to threats by analyzing behavioral anomalies within internal networks. LightCyber's solutions provide automated investigative data to streamline incident response and enhance the accuracy of threat detection, minimizing the noise typically associated with traditional security alerts. The company's products serve a diverse clientele across sectors such as finance, legal, telecommunications, government, media, and technology. As of early 2017, LightCyber operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks.

Greengage Lighting

Venture Round in 2016
Greengage Agritech, founded in 2008 and located at the Roslin Institute of Edinburgh University, focuses on enhancing the agricultural sector through innovative technologies. The company develops systems aimed at improving productivity and reducing operational costs for farmers, particularly in the realm of livestock management. Their product offerings include induction-powered LED lighting, advanced sensors, web applications, and data analytics tools. These technologies enable remote monitoring of environmental conditions and animal behavior, helping farming businesses optimize operations, increase production efficiency, and promote sustainable agricultural practices. By integrating these solutions, Greengage Agritech supports farmers in achieving better overall well-being for their livestock while ensuring profitable development.

CirroSecure

Acquisition in 2015
CirroSecure is a cloud data security platform that offers enterprises comprehensive visibility and protection for their cloud assets without causing disruption to IT operations. The platform specializes in multi-dimensional compliance and exposure risk analysis, enabling organizations to accurately identify sources of risk. Additionally, CirroSecure provides a monitoring service for provisioned cloud applications, which enhances data protection through automated and manual root cause analysis. This approach allows enterprises to maintain security while effectively managing their cloud environments.

Cyvera

Acquisition in 2014
Cyvera specializes in cyber-defense products aimed at protecting Microsoft-based servers and endpoints from remote attacks. The company shifts the security paradigm from identifying malicious activities to preventing exploit techniques, offering a unique approach that addresses vulnerabilities not covered by traditional security suites and next-generation firewalls. Cyvera's solutions empower organizations to safeguard against various cyber-attack campaigns, including mass and targeted attacks, as well as Zero-Day threats and risks associated with unpatched systems. Through its innovative technology, Cyvera provides comprehensive protection, enhancing the overall security posture of its clients.

Morta Security

Acquisition in 2014
Morta Security is a stealth-mode start-up focused on developing innovative solutions to counter advanced cyber threats faced by large enterprises. The company aims to address the limitations of traditional layered network defense systems, which have become inadequate against sophisticated attackers. Led by a team of experienced executives and engineers from the National Security Agency, Morta combines start-up innovation with military-grade technology to tackle some of the most challenging issues in network security. By creating a unique cybersecurity platform, Morta Security is positioned to transform the landscape of cyber defense and enhance protection against advanced malware. The company is actively seeking top talent to join its mission of revolutionizing cybersecurity.
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