Palo Alto Networks Inc.

Certificate lifecycle automation prevents outages and accelerates post-quantum readiness

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today defined a new standard for operational resilience with the launch of Next-Generation Trust Security (NGTS). As the industry moves toward a mandatory 47-day certificate renewal cycle, NGTS transforms cryptographic trust from a manual, human error prone process to an automated network control, eliminating service outages and dramatically improving operational efficiency.

For decades, digital certificates - the "passports" of the digital economy - lasted years and changed rarely. Today, however, the enterprise has entered a period of continuous cryptographic reset: certificate lifetimes are shrinking by over 90%, encryption standards are shifting for a post-quantum world, and sudden decertification of global trust authorities can now force the immediate replacement of thousands of certificates.

Anand Oswal, Executive Vice President of AI & Network Security, Palo Alto Networks

"When digital trust breaks, the business stops. Expired or non-compliant certificates trigger outages that take business-critical applications, infrastructure, and cloud services offline. Managing updates manually takes considerable time and coordination across several teams, and with increased scale and speed requirements, a manual approach is no longer viable. With NGTS, and our quantum-safe security solution, the network becomes the ultimate control point to automate the cryptographic reset."

NGTS is the industry's first network-native platform that unifies certificate lifecycle management (CLM) with real-time network visibility and enforcement. Available today, this unified defense enables businesses to:

• Gain Increased Visibility: Discover where trust lives across all network services and applications, eliminating the "shadow" certificates and blind spots that lead to security gaps.
• Facilitate Operational Resilience: Protect the business from certificate-related outages and trust failures by automatically identifying and refreshing credentials before they disrupt customer transactions or internal services.
• Build Cryptographic Agility: Accelerate the transition to a post-quantum future with automated lifecycle management built to handle faster renewal cycles and evolving encryption standards without manual effort.

Emanuel Figueroa, Senior Research Analyst, Identity and Access Management Security, Worldwide, IDC

"For years, the industry relied on a checkpoint model of trust — authenticate once and assume safety. But in a post-quantum world with shrinking certificate lifecycles, that assumption no longer holds. Trust now has to adjust as quickly as the environment it protects. By moving certificate lifecycle management out of manual spreadsheets and into a network-native platform, Palo Alto Networks is turning cryptographic maintenance into a continuous automated process rather than a periodic task. This isn't only about avoiding outages; it's about creating a unified security fabric where cryptographic agility is built in, keeping the business resilient even as encryption standards evolve beneath the stack."

While legacy tools manage certificates in a vacuum, Palo Alto Networks is the only provider that embeds trust directly into the network layer. By integrating CyberArk's best-in-class machine identity intelligence into the network, NGTS closes the gap between the teams managing certificates and the teams responsible for uptime.

Learn more about how NGTS is redefining operational resilience.

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Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global AI cybersecurity leader, protects our digital way of life with a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity solutions and platforms across Network, Cloud, Security Operations, AI and Identity. Trusted by 70,000+ customers and powered by Unit 42 threat intelligence, our AI-driven platforms eliminate complexity, empowering enterprises to modernize with confidence and securing the speed of innovation. Explore the future of security at www.paloaltonetworks.com.

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Unified ecosystem scales for sovereign AI by securing the physical and digital AI Factory foundation

BARCELONA, Spain, March 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As global networks pivot to operating high-performance AI Factories, Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global AI cybersecurity leader, today announced an expanded security ecosystem designed to protect this new industrial backbone. At Mobile World Congress 2026, the company unveiled four collaborations with Nokia, U Mobile, Aeris, and Celerway that allow enterprises to scale for sovereign AI and secure the autonomous edge without compromising performance.

Anand Oswal, Executive Vice President, Palo Alto Networks

"We are establishing the secure foundation for the AI economy through extensive ecosystem collaboration. By seamlessly integrating our AI-powered security services directly from the datacenter into the most vital 5G and IoT networks globally, we are ensuring the AI Factory is secure by design. These partnerships enable us to create a secure digital infrastructure capable of managing the multi-terabit throughput required for training AI models."

Palo Alto Networks and Nokia are positioning their proven data center security to support the rise of European 'Gigafactories'. By combining Nokia's AI Data Center infrastructure with Palo Alto Networks industry leading AI platforms, customers can scale high-performance AI workloads while achieving their data sovereignty needs.

Greg Dorai, Senior Vice President and General Manager, IP Networks, Nokia

"In the race to build the world's AI Factories, you cannot leave the door open at the infrastructure layer. Nokia and Palo Alto Networks jointly envision comprehensive architectural and operational frameworks that expand security solutions from the network layer to workloads. The validated architecture will allow our customers to build future-proof, sovereign data centers. We aren't just providing connectivity, we are protecting the physical and digital integrity of industrial digitization at scale."

In addition, Palo Alto Networks is showcasing three additional partnerships at MWC Barcelona that extend security from the core infrastructure of telcos to deliver foundational resilience through a unified partner ecosystem:

• U Mobile: Real-Time Protection for Consumers and Businesses: Palo Alto Networks has signed an MoU with U Mobile, Malaysia's newest 5G network provider, to collaborate on a network-embedded Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) solution to protect its customers from rising cybersecurity threats. By integrating Next-Generation Firewalls and AI-powered security directly into its 4G and 5G infrastructure, U Mobile looks to provide customers with proactive, built-in defense against digital risks.
• Aeris: Unified Visibility for Global IoT Fleets: Mission-critical industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and utilities will now benefit from the ability to scale AI and 5G initiatives globally while reducing the attack surface of the billions of devices feeding data into the AI Factory. By integrating Aeris IoT Watchtower with Prisma® SASE 5G, enterprises can apply data loss prevention and zero-trust policies to millions of wireless devices from a single point of control, closing the traditional security gap at the wireless edge.
• Celerway Communication: Enterprise Security Perimeter Extended to the Distributed Edge: First responders and remote teams will now benefit from data-center-class protection in the field. This integration with Celerway and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) enables mission-critical 5G edge devices to maintain a consistent, rigorous security posture and encrypted data integrity, even when operating in high-mobility or harsh environments far from the central hub.

Learn more about how Palo Alto Networks is securing AI Factories.

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Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global AI cybersecurity leader, protects our digital way of life with a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity solutions and platforms across Network, Cloud, Security Operations, AI and Identity. Trusted by 70,000+ customers and powered by Unit 42 threat intelligence, our AI-driven platforms eliminate complexity, empowering enterprises to modernize with confidence and securing the speed of innovation. Explore the future of security at www.paloaltonetworks.com.

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