Palo Alto Networks has completed its acquisition of CyberArk, formally establishing identity security as a core pillar of its platformization strategy and strengthening its ability to protect every identity across the enterprise, including human, machine and agentic identities. As organizations expand cloud, automation and AI initiatives, identity has become the dominant attack path, with machine identities now outnumbering human identities by more than 80 to one and nearly 90% of organizations having experienced an identity-centric breach. The integration of the CyberArk Identity Security Platform extends privileged access protection beyond administrators to all identities, helping reduce standing privileges, limit lateral movement and accelerate breach response.
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Nikesh Arora, Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, said: “The emerging wave of AI agents will require us to secure every identity-human, machine, and agent. This is why we moved decisively by announcing our intent to acquire CyberArk last July and am excited to have product integration begin. For our customers, this means the end of ‘identity silos.’ They can now manage privileged access across their entire hybrid cloud environment from the same company they trust for Network Security and Security Operations-to ensure they are secure in the AI era.” Matt Cohen, CEO of CyberArk, said: “Joining forces with Palo Alto Networks creates the definitive cyber guardian for the modern enterprise. This is a win-win: our customers gain access to the world’s most comprehensive security portfolio, and our employees join a global innovation engine. Together, we are creating the most robust combination of proven technologies to stop identity-driven breaches.”