Cloud security is evolving for the AI era, secure it with the Overall Leader.
As enterprises rapidly build out their AI and autonomous agents, effective cloud security requires shifting from standalone tools to a unified security platform. Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud™ has been named an Overall Leader across Product, Innovation, and Market categories in the 2026 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP). The report recognizes Cortex Cloud for leading the market by bringing cloud security, application security, runtime protection, and security operations together into a single, unified platform.
Read the report to learn about:
- The unification of Cloud Security and Security Operations (Code to Cloud to SOC)
- AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) and Securing AI Pipelines
- Runtime Driven Risk Prioritization and Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
"Palo Alto Networks earns Innovation Leadership with its Cortex Cloud integration of SOC with CNAPP supported by Cortex AI capabilities as well as its AI-SPM that provides visibility and risk analysis of Large Language Models, identifying misconfigured models and insecure AI pipelines." — KuppingerCole Leadership Compass.
