Palo Alto Networks to buy Protect AI to extend AI security

Cybersecurity steadfast Palo Alto Networks has agreed to get endeavor AI information solutions supplier Protect AI to bolster Palo Alto Networks' presumption successful next-generation cybersecurity.

Protect AI specializes successful securing the usage of AI and instrumentality learning applications and models.

Protect AI provides broad suite of products for precocious AI scanning, LLM security, and GenAI reddish teaming that run connected azygous endeavor acceptable platform.

By integrating with existing AI and information operations, Protect AI helps successful protecting AI investments for organisations portion enhancing operational efficiency, follow MLSecOps and conscionable planetary information information and privateness standards.

Founded by AI leaders from Oracle and Amazon, Protect AI is backed by investors, including boldstart ventures, Acrew Capital, Evolution Equity Partners, Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures, 01 Advisors, Samsung, StepStone Group, and Salesforce Ventures.

Palo Alto Networks expects the integration of Protect AI's solutions and expertise is expected to importantly heighten its recently unveiled Prisma AIRS AI information platform.

Prisma AIRS aims to supply customers with amended extortion passim the full AI improvement lifecycle, addressing the request for exemplary scanning, hazard assessment, GenAI runtime security, posture management, and AI cause security.

This level is designed to empower organisations to confidently integrate AI into their operational processes.

Palo Alto Networks elder vice-president and wide manager Anand Oswal said: “By extending our AI information capabilities to see Protect AI's innovative solutions for Securing for AI, businesses volition beryllium capable to physique AI applications with broad security.

“With the summation of Protect AI's existing portfolio of solutions and squad of experts, Palo Alto Networks volition beryllium well-positioned to connection a wide scope of solutions for customers' existent needs, and besides beryllium capable to proceed innovating connected delivering caller solutions that are needed for this dynamic menace landscape.”

Upon completion of the transaction, the CEO, founders, and employees of Protect AI are anticipated to articulation Palo Alto Networks.

Subject to modular closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, the acquisition is planned to beryllium closed by the archetypal 4th of Palo Alto Networks' fiscal twelvemonth 2026.

Protect AI co-founder and CEO Ian Swanson said: “Joining forces with Palo Alto Networks volition alteration america to standard our ngo of making the AI scenery much unafraid for users and organisations of each sizes.

“We are excited for the accidental to unite with a institution that shares our imaginativeness and brings the operational standard and cybersecurity prowess to amplify our interaction globally.”