AI is transforming every enterprise, creating extraordinary opportunities and new risks

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today announced Prisma® AIRS™ 2.0, a major platform upgrade that completes the native integration of the recently acquired Protect AI to deliver the industry's most comprehensive AI security platform. This release directly confronts a critical enterprise challenge: 78% of organizations are transforming with AI, but only a staggering 6% have the guardrails to do so securely. Prisma AIRS 2.0 meets this urgent demand by providing customers with end-to-end protection across the entire AI application lifecycle, securing everything from autonomous agents to the models themselves.

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

"AI is transforming every enterprise, creating extraordinary opportunities and new risks. Prisma AIRS 2.0 bridges that gap, uniting deep model inspection, real-time agent defense, and continuous red teaming in a single platform. We're redefining what it means to secure AI at scale by turning security into an accelerator for innovation, not an obstacle. This marks the continuation of our rapid innovation in AI security as we advance new capabilities to defend against the threats of tomorrow."

Prisma AIRS 2.0 delivers comprehensive end-to-end AI security, seamlessly connecting deep AI agent and model inspection in development with real-time agent defense at production runtime. The platform, continuously validated by autonomous AI red teaming, secures all interactions between AI models, agents, data, and users. This gives enterprises the confidence to discover, assess, and protect their entire AI ecosystem, accelerating secure innovation. Already trusted by global leaders in finance, healthcare, and government, Prisma AIRS 2.0 provides visibility, control, and confidence at scale through three enhanced security modules:

The update sees the introduction of a workforce of autonomous AI agents powered by Cortex AgentiX, a redesigned Cloud Command Center for unified visibility and a performance-optimized Cloud Detection and Response agent. The AI agents, which are trained on 1.2 billion real-world responses, autonomously investigate and resolve security issues in minutes, while enterprise-grade guardrails ensure compliance and control.

Rounding out the announcements, the company also announced Cortex AgentiX, a new platform underpinning Palo Alto’s broader agentic AI strategy.

AgentiX allows enterprises to build, deploy and govern autonomous security agents with enterprise-grade guardrails. The service comes preloaded with specialized agents, including Threat Intelligence, Email Investigation, Endpoint Investigation and Network Security agents, with each capable of executing complex workflows across the enterprise environment.

AI Agent Security: Securing the Autonomous Workforce. Provides real-time, in-line defense against prompt injections, tool misuse, and malicious agent behavior. Prisma AIRS discovers and inventories every AI agent in use – sanctioned or unsanctioned (“Shadow AI”) giving the visibility and control needed to secure the explosion of AI agents.

AI Red Teaming: Continuous, Autonomous Vulnerability Hunting. Addresses the new, dynamic attack surface of Generative AI applications. Uses an autonomous, continuous, and context-aware agentic approach and over 500 specialized attacks to proactively find vulnerabilities in enterprise AI systems before they can be exploited. While others offer periodic testing, Prisma AIRS delivers a persistent, automated red team that thinks like a real adversary.

AI Model Security: Shielding Open-Source Deployment. Performs a deep architectural analysis of the model itself to find threats traditional scanners can’t see. It can detect sophisticated, AI-native threats like architectural backdoors, data poisoning, and malicious code

BY- Aaradhay Sharma