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Palo Alto Networks Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026

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Palo Alto Networks has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026 report, achieving the highest score in the current offering category.

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The OT attack surface is widening as private 5G, IoMT, and aging legacy systems converge across operational networks. At the same time, Frontier AI has compressed the attack lifecycle from months to minutes - adversaries now discover and chain vulnerabilities before a patch exists. These shifts are quickly widening the gap between cyber risk and protection in critical infrastructure Closing that gap is what Palo Alto Networks set out to do - and it's the context for our recognition and ranking as a Leader with the highest score in the current offering category in The Forrester Wave™: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026. We're proud of the placement. What matters more to an OT security team is why: to us, it reflects an approach built around three operational outcomes - resiliency, provable compliance, and a simpler security estate - rather than another monitoring dashboard bolted on to be managed by an already stretched team. Per the report, "Palo Alto's strategy in OT security is balanced with a solid vision toward platformization, leading to innovation and roadmaps built to drive this vision." Our platformization approach maps to how IT and OT teams think through digital transformation, and securing operational networks: deploy without disruption, see every asset, prioritize what genuinely threatens operations, and protect the devices you can't patch. All...

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