Palo Alto Networks has announced new security solutions to help organisations navigate the evolving quantum landscape, and to keep pace with highly dynamic cloud and AI environments.
Anand Oswal, SVP and GM of network security, Palo Alto Networks, said: "The quantum threat to encryption is no longer theoretical, it’s an inevitability that demands action now. With these latest innovations that cover the entire quantum readiness lifecycle, we are pioneering the defence for this new era.
"Every Palo Alto Networks customer that uses our latest software will be able to accelerate their journey to becoming quantum safe, with the intelligence and infrastructure needed to proactively secure their most critical assets from tomorrow’s threats, today.”
As the first step, Next-Generation Firewall and Secure Access Service Edge customers gain complete visibility and control over their cryptographic risk posture through the company’s Quantum Readiness Dashboard.
Next, for applications that don’t natively support quantum safe encryption, the release introduces “the industry’s first cipher translation”, which “instantly upgrades any application to be quantum safe”.
Palo Alto Networks is also introducing Quantum-Optimized Hardware - 14 new 5th-generation Next-Generation Firewall models - that future-proof security investments with high-performance processing of post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
The innovations and key features will be available through a software upgrade to PAN-OS 12.1 Orion.
