“Often found at the forefront of network security innovations, Palo Alto Networks’s cyber security capabilities are diverse, well integrated, and buyer focused.”

—according to the IDC MarketScape

We are excited to announce that Palo Alto Networks has been named as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Hybrid Firewall 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US53687925, August 2025). Read the report abstract or get the full report (IDC subscribers only) here. We believe this recognition underscores our unwavering commitment to providing innovative and comprehensive network security solutions, enabling enterprises to empower their workforce and unleash their AI transformation without being slowed down by security concerns.

In today's complex and evolving threat landscape with increasingly scaled and sophisticated AI-driven attacks against an ever-broader set of attack surfaces, enterprises are adopting a hybrid approach to network security, integrating a diverse array of solutions including hardware next generation firewalls (NGFWs), software NGFWs, secure access service edge (SASE) solutions, and a wide variety of security services running in the cloud.

This multifaceted strategy requires unified and comprehensive management and operation to orchestrate and optimize all components, ensuring consistent policy enforcement and streamlined operations across the entire security infrastructure.

Our comprehensive, AI-driven Network Security Platform empowers customers with unparalleled agility, scalability and choice, allowing them to seamlessly integrate our advanced security solutions into their unique environments. This flexible approach ensures that organizations can tailor their defenses to precisely fit their evolving needs, whether they require robust protection for on-premises infrastructure, cloud deployments, or, as is increasingly common, a hybrid and multicloud model.

By providing the freedom to adapt and expand their security posture as their business grows and changes, we enable customers to proactively minimize their attack surface, prevent unauthorized access, and limit the lateral movement of threats, all while maintaining optimal performance and business continuity.

To us, this report reflects our superior capabilities and innovation and—more importantly— it points out that our comprehensive solution is truly focused on our customers.

With this focus, we are able to deliver on our mission of partnering with customers to protect our digital way of life. Our approach is deeply grounded in platformization, which recognizes customers' desire for a unified and comprehensive solution to manage the complexities of modern network security.

Our Network Security Platform

Our Network Security Platform unifies security across your entire cybersecurity estate. It provides:

• Unified Management and Operations in the Cloud–Strata™ Cloud Manager centralizes management, allowing consistent policy enforcement across your infrastructure.
• AI-Powered Real-Time Security–For real-time threat prevention, our AI-driven cloud-delivered security services, like Advanced WildFire^® and Advanced Threat Prevention, use machine learning and deep learning from 70,000+ customer data insights to stop threats instantly.
• Consistently Applied to Every Environment from SASE to NGFW–Our platform applies policies across all environments via enforcement points including our industry-leading Prisma^® SASE, Prisma AIRS™ and our broad portfolio of hardware and software NGFWs. This secures both AI and non-AI workloads against network and AI-specific threats, in clouds, containers or data centers.

Breakthrough Innovations for the Next Generation of Threats

As threats evolve, so do our solutions. We deliver breakthrough innovations designed to counter every new generation of threats. The IDC MarketScape notes, “Palo Alto Networks offers a number of unique, high-end capabilities to differentiate their hybrid firewall platform, including strong layer 7 visibility and performance, autonomous DEM for visibility and troubleshooting, and advanced policy management, which provides insight into individual policies and what their effect will be on workflows/the environment.”

Two prime examples of this continuing innovation are Prisma AIRS and Advanced DNS Resolver (ADNSR).

Prisma AIRS–With the once-in-a-generation adoption of AI, securing AI is paramount. Prisma AIRS is the world's most comprehensive AI security platform, designed to secure the entire enterprise AI ecosystem, from applications and agents to models and data, across their lifecycle. Prisma AIRS addresses critical AI security needs: AI model scanning for vulnerabilities, posture management to help prevent misconfigurations, and AI red teaming to uncover risks. It also provides essential runtime security against threats like prompt injection and malicious code data leaks, enabling confident AI deployment.

Figure 1: Prisma AIRS Command Center

Advanced DNS Resolver—Effectively mitigating evolving DNS-layer attacks is an imperative for every enterprise, as traditional defenses prove insufficient against sophisticated threats that exploit this foundational protocol. Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security (ADNS) powered by Precision AI^® provides proven, high-efficacy protection, demonstrated by its ability to analyze up to 1.1 billion new domains, prevent up to 7.7 million new malicious domains, and block up to 2.06 billion threats inline every day, delivering the scale and protection needed to stay ahead of today’s advanced threats.

To extend this robust defense across the entire enterprise infrastructure, Palo Alto Networks introduced ADNSR, a cloud-delivered DNS resolution service within the ADNS portfolio that expands deployment options and enables rapid, enterprise-grade protection across diverse, multivendor environments.

Ready to Experience a Leading Network Security Platform?

To learn more about how Palo Alto Networks can help you implement a robust zero trust strategy and how interviewed customers achieved an ROI of 174% over three years, read about The Total Economic Impact™ of our Network Security Platform in our commissioned Forrester Consulting study or engage with a Palo Alto Networks account team.