Palo Alto Networks Acquires Console to Bring Autonomous AI Agents to Security Operations
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Palo Alto Networks has acquired Console, an AI-native platform designed to deliver agentic capabilities across enterprise operations, as the cybersecurity giant advances plans to automate security investigation, prioritization, and response workflows. The acquisition, announced September 1, 2026, will deepen agentic AI capabilities within Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex security operations platform. The company said Console’s technology is intended to help security teams analyze alerts, resolve operational issues, and execute requests at machine speed through AI-driven workflows. Console enables organizations to express operational goals in natural language and use AI agents to handle the underlying complexity. Palo Alto Networks said the technology will support a shift away from traditional security operations models that rely heavily on dashboards, manual ticket queues, and repetitive analyst work. “Security operations can no longer be about managing dashboards and queuing tickets just to help humans work faster,” said Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks. “By bringing Console into Palo Alto Networks, our customers can have a direct conversation with data and build agentic workflows in natural language that helps alert and remediate issues automatically.” The company described the strategy as “software-as-an-agent,” in which intelligent software can perform...
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Palo Alto Networks plans to integrate Console into Cortex, its security operations portfolio.
