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. Its primary product is a regulatory compliance management system that employs AI assistants to facilitate secure data queries, code generation, and document uploads, thereby helping clients safeguard sensitive information and maintain data privacy.

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 specializes in providing cybersecurity solutions tailored for the distributed workforce, addressing emerging threats associated with hybrid work environments. Its innovative technology enhances security controls to accommodate the growing reliance on cloud services and remote operations. Talon Cyber Security offers a unique secure browser that delivers enterprise-grade protection across both managed and unmanaged devices, independent of location, device type, or operating system. This approach not only fortifies cybersecurity but also promotes productivity and flexibility for businesses navigating the complexities of modern work arrangements.

Dig Security

Acquisition in 2023
Dig Security is a cloud data security startup focused on providing real-time visibility, control, and protection for data assets. As enterprises increasingly adopt complex environments with various database types across multiple clouds, the challenge of monitoring and detecting data exfiltration and policy violations has intensified. Dig Security addresses this issue with a cloud-native, agentless approach that reinvents data loss prevention through its Data Detection & Response (DDR) capabilities. The platform offers comprehensive cloud data security solutions, enabling businesses to manage cloud data sprawl effectively while maintaining operational efficiency and ensuring robust threat protection for their data in public cloud environments.

d-Matrix

Series B in 2023
D-Matrix is a technology company focused on developing a computing platform aimed at enhancing artificial intelligence inferencing workloads in data centers. The company is dedicated to creating an innovative, brain-inspired AI compute engine that addresses a wide range of inferencing tasks within the growing cloud and edge infrastructure markets. By employing an in-memory computing approach, D-Matrix seeks to improve the efficiency of memory-compute integration through advanced mixed-signal and digital signal processing techniques. This platform is particularly designed to support generative artificial intelligence applications and large language models, thereby providing clients with enhanced computational capabilities.

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 designed to enhance the security of engineering processes from code development to deployment. Founded in late 2020 by cybersecurity experts Guy Flechter and Daniel Krivelevich, Cider Security aims to address the common challenges faced by Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and security engineers. The platform provides a unified solution for orchestrating and implementing end-to-end CI/CD security, allowing security and engineering teams to collaborate more effectively. By establishing a comprehensive Technical DNA of the engineering environment, Cider Security enhances transparency and visibility, enabling organizations to optimize their application security efforts while ensuring the protection of sensitive data.

Gamma.AI

Acquisition in 2021
Gamma.AI is an AI-driven platform focused on cloud data discovery, data classification, and data loss prevention for enterprises. It enables organizations to conduct comprehensive analyses of their data across cloud applications, helping them understand the sensitivity, criticality, and privacy implications of their information while maintaining an exceptional accuracy rate of less than 0.1% in false positives. The platform addresses critical inquiries such as the location of confidential data, access permissions, and the exposure of sensitive credentials. Additionally, Gamma.AI allows for customizable remediation strategies in the event of data loss incidents. Acquired by Palo Alto Networks within two and a half years of its founding, Gamma.AI has become integral to the company's 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, specializes in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) solutions that enhance visibility throughout the service delivery chain. The company offers a unified platform that enables enterprises to monitor and improve digital experiences for users across various networks, applications, and cloud environments. Unlike traditional network visibility solutions, Sinefa provides comprehensive insights into all components of the digital experience, including users, networks, traffic, applications, and cloud services. Its cloud-native platform delivers real-time insights and predictive analytics, empowering clients to optimize performance and enhance user satisfaction. As of November 2020, Sinefa operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

Expanse

Acquisition in 2020
Expanse, Inc. is an enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in data marshalling services and IT operations management. Founded in 2012 and originally known as Qadium, Inc., the company provides organizations with an updated view of their internet-connected assets, enabling IT and security teams to monitor their global attack surface. Expanse's platform indexes global IP addresses, DNS protocol information, and other registration records, allowing organizations to discover unknown assets and manage their exposure to online threats. Trusted by major enterprises and government agencies, Expanse's technology enhances awareness and visibility, significantly reducing the risks associated with internet-connected assets and improving overall cybersecurity posture.

Crypsis

Acquisition in 2020
The Crypsis Group is a security advisory firm based in McLean, Virginia, established in 2015. The company specializes in incident response, risk management, and digital forensic services, providing solutions such as data breach response, cyber risk and resilience management, and digital investigations. It also offers expert witness and litigation support, data analytics, and managed security services. With a commitment to combating cybercrime, Crypsis Group aims to protect clients from severe cybersecurity threats through elite expertise and innovative approaches. The firm has expanded its presence across the United States, operating offices in major cities including Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Austin, and Los Angeles, thereby positioning itself as a national leader in cybersecurity defense and response.

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 providing Zero Trust Network Access solutions, focusing on secure remote access to applications. The company's platform employs application isolation technology and a context-aware security approach, evaluating various factors to ensure that only authorized users can access specific resources within a network. This allows organizations to maintain control over sensitive information while enabling access for employees, partners, and other stakeholders. Through its cloud security and analytics solutions, Axis Security aims to enhance data protection and streamline secure access to business applications.

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 San Jose-based company that specializes in cloud-native security solutions tailored for deploying and operating applications in modern distributed systems, including those based on containers, microservices, and serverless architectures. Founded in 2015, Aporeto provides a comprehensive security platform that enables organizations to secure their workloads across various infrastructures—public, private, or hybrid—by leveraging identity-based access control to maintain a Zero Trust security posture. The company's offerings include the Aporeto Cloud Identity Framework, which facilitates consistent policy enforcement between enterprise applications and managed services. Aporeto's solutions are designed to protect cloud applications from potential attacks by ensuring that all communications are authenticated and authorized.

ZingBox

Acquisition in 2019
ZingBox, established in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, specializes in enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) security solutions. The company offers a real-time IoT security platform that discovers and protects connected devices, safeguarding against cyber and insider threats. Primarily serving the healthcare and manufacturing industries, ZingBox's solution uses anomaly detection to map networks, establish normal device behavior baselines, and identify risk profiles. It operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

PureSec

Acquisition in 2019
PureSec Ltd. is a cybersecurity company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2016. It focuses on providing a cloud-based security platform specifically designed for serverless architectures. PureSec enables organizations to build and maintain secure serverless applications across various cloud providers, including AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions, and IBM Cloud Functions. The platform offers an end-to-end security solution that protects against both known and unknown threats, allowing companies to detect, prevent, and respond to suspicious activities and attacks. By integrating seamlessly with serverless applications, PureSec helps organizations save time and resources by eliminating the need to manage underlying infrastructure. As of June 2019, PureSec operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Inc.

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, Inc. operates a security orchestration, automation, and response platform designed to enhance the efficiency of security teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with additional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Tel Aviv, Israel, the company focuses on streamlining incident management and interactive investigation processes. Its platform integrates intelligent automation through a ChatOps interface, allowing teams to manage security incidents more effectively while leveraging existing security investments. Demisto's automated incident response capabilities, powered by an AI-driven bot, facilitate collaboration and enable organizations to efficiently execute playbook-based workflows and threat hunting operations. As a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks, Demisto continues to evolve its offerings to address the growing challenges in cybersecurity.

RedLock

Acquisition in 2018
RedLock, Inc., founded in September 2015 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, specializes in internet security software. The company has developed a cloud-based infrastructure security platform that offers deep security visibility and anomaly detection tailored for dynamic environments. This platform automatically identifies workloads and facilitates continuous monitoring, anomaly detection, cloud forensics, adaptive response, and compliance reporting. By providing these capabilities, RedLock enables organizations to manage security and compliance risks across their public cloud infrastructure effectively. This approach supports the acceleration of digital business while maintaining collaboration between software developers and IT operations, thereby streamlining the software delivery process. 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 company focused on cloud security management, offering a software platform that enables continuous monitoring and remediation of risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance for public cloud environments. Founded in 2013 and based in Pleasanton, California, the company provides cloud security services that include resource visibility, vulnerability assessment, and alert notifications. Its flagship product, the Evident Security Platform (ESP), is an agentless and API-centric solution that helps organizations identify and address security misconfigurations and risks across their cloud infrastructure, particularly within Amazon Web Services (AWS). By delivering actionable intelligence in a user-friendly manner, Evident.io aims to facilitate a balance between agility and robust security, catering to a diverse range of industries and organizational sizes. In 2018, the company was acquired by Palo Alto Networks.

LightCyber

Acquisition in 2017
LightCyber Ltd. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2011 and based in Ramat Gan, Israel. It specializes in developing solutions to identify and prevent cyber-attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs). The company's flagship product, LightCyber Magna, is a behavioral attack detection platform that integrates user, network, and endpoint context to enhance security visibility into various attack activities. This platform is designed to identify behavioral anomalies within networks, enabling organizations to detect and stop attacks efficiently before they inflict damage. LightCyber also offers an incident response management solution that automates workflows and a network behavior analysis tool that visualizes anomalies in a user-friendly format. The company's products have been deployed by clients across multiple sectors, including financial, legal, telecom, government, media, and technology. As of early 2017, LightCyber operates as a subsidiary of Palo Alto Networks.

Greengage Lighting

Venture Round in 2016
Greengage was founded in 2008 and is based on site at the Roslin Institute Edinburgh University. Their presence at the universities campus for veterinary studies, demonstrates their focus on delivering innovative and applicable technologies to the agricultural sector. They work for farmers improving the overall well-being and productivity of their livestock.

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. Recognizing the inadequacies of traditional layered network defenses, Morta aims to revolutionize cybersecurity by employing a unique technology that effectively combats advanced malware. The company is led by a team of experienced executives and engineers with backgrounds in the National Security Agency, which enhances their capability to tackle complex network security challenges. By combining start-up agility with military-grade technology, Morta is positioned to transform the cybersecurity landscape and is actively seeking top talent to further its mission.
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