Palo Alto unpacks security platform to protect AI resources

He also wrote that Prisma AIRS will be enhanced by the company’s recently announced intent to acquire Protect AI, which will help Palo Alto deliver necessary AI security capabilities to its customers faster, according to William Blair Equity Research Analyst Jonathan Ho.

“Protect AI was founded in 2020 and has emerged as a leading player in addressing AI-specific security challenges, like model manipulation or data poisoning, with purpose-built solutions,” Ho wrote in a recent research brief. “In our view, Palo Alto Networks’ acquisition and integration of Protect AI’s technology and expertise strengthens the company’s AI security portfolio and accelerates the development of its own AI security framework.”

Palo Alto also used RSA to introduce new features in its Prisma SASE product, including the Prisma Access Browser 2.0.

“A secure browser extends SASE protection to where knowledge workers spend most of their time, securing third-party access, supporting BYOD, and reducing an organization’s reliance on legacy infrastructure like VDI,” said John Grady, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, in a statement. “Palo Alto Networks’ unique approach of integrating its Prisma Access Browser with Prisma SASE helps organizations extend the same protection from advanced threats, user experience monitoring, and genAI app protection from the network into the browser, ensuring users are protected, efficient, and productive.”

The secure access service edge (SASE) secure browser includes new capabilities that now:

• Help secure generative AI adoption with real-time visibility, access control, and user coaching to secure sensitive data at the last mile with LLM-powered context-based classification preventing unintentional leaks or breaches.
• Provide protection to detect evasive and targeted attacks such as AI-generated cloaking and SaaS-hosted phishing attacks such as evasive AI-generated code and malicious injection into compromised websites, which cannot be detected outside of a browser.
• Enable enterprises to easily launch legacy infrastructure such as VDI application from the same browser for a unified experience.
• Improve shadow data discovery and data classification accuracy and provide proactive measures against insider threats to safeguard sensitive information.
• Expand support for new productivity apps and extend user-to-app performance to the branch with integration into Prisma SD-WAN.
• Simplify the IT experience with a unified agent for SASE use cases.

“Secure browsers are absolutely essential for the modern workforce because today’s work is increasingly remote, cloud-based, and data-intensive,” Oswal stated.“This shift demands a unified, modern approach to security—a SASE natively integrated secure browser—that uniquely safeguards productivity, helps ensure resilience, and does so with a seamless user experience, making it the optimal choice for securing today’s dynamic work environments.”