Recent innovations in Palo Alto’s Prisma SASE offering span three critical areas:

• AI-Powered Threat Protection – Attackers now operate at AI scale, overwhelming traditional secure web gateways that were never designed to handle today’s tactics. 95% of organisations report browser-originated incidents that bypass network controls, highlighting how attackers assemble malware post-load, exploit interactive sessions and weaponize DNS.  Prisma SASE brings security directly into the user’s experience to stop these threats where they emerge. Advanced Web Protection in the Prisma Browser inspects fully rendered webpages in real time, catching threats that only trigger after page load or user interaction, without requiring transport-layer decryption. Post-load attacks and malware assembled in the browser are stopped before they can execute or spread. At the same time, integrated enterprise password management extends identity security and SSO controls to every app while zero-trust policies ensure consistent protection across managed, unmanaged and BYOD devices.

• Data Security Without Friction – AI agents, co-pilots and plugins now connect directly to corporate data, accelerating productivity but also expanding risk. Moreover, traditional data loss prevention (DLP) approaches, designed for structured files and keyword-based rules, cannot keep pace with unstructured content, such as images, source code or AI-generated text, often creating blind spots and floods of false positives.  Prisma SASE secures this new frontier with the industry’s first SASE platform that includes dedicated SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) delivering continuous, real-time visibility into the behaviour of SaaS-based AI agents, co-pilots and plugins. It continuously discovers and monitors SaaS-based AI agents, giving administrators visibility into which agents are accessing sensitive data, how they are being used and where risks emerge. It provides guardrails to limit excessive agency, govern user interactions and block unauthorised access.

• Unified, Intelligent Operations – Enterprises today operate across hybrid infrastructures, multi-cloud environments and distributed teams. Managing performance and security across these domains with siloed tools is both costly and complex.  Prisma SASE unifies networking, security and operations in a single cloud-delivered architecture; simplifying how you secure and scale your environment through autonomous operation and AI-assisted management.