Palo Alto Networks staged its Ignite on Tour London event this month at a time of growth and expansion for the company. Welcoming CxOs and cyber security professionals from the UK and around the world, the company explained how malicious actors and attackers are now faster, smarter and increasingly powered by AI. Keen to sample and listen to the organisation’s vision for consolidating a company’s security stack with a unified platform, automation and the power of AI… Techzine ordered a portion of fish & chips and went to London town.
Neutralising sophisticated threats
This event was designed to explain how organisations today can adopt a platform approach to effectively neutralise sophisticated threats while also scaling operations and automating defences against AI-driven attacks.
Keen to reflect (and, where it can, lead) current trends in enterprise software, Palo Alto Networks has explained where vibe coding can be used as an effective mechanism in AI security. The company’s AI Security Nexus initiative is designed to enable businesses to grasp, adopt, manage and secure new and emerging artificial intelligence services from an end-to-end (design to deployment, node-to-node and user endpoint to user or machine endpoint) perspective with an established set of best practices.
Now working to expand this service offering, it offers white papers, working case studies that illustrate the pattern of cyber attacks and the routes to remediation and a multimedia content hub for cyber professionals to gorge on. It’s what Ian Swanson, Palo Alto Networks’ product VP for AI security, has called a centre of strategic foresight.
Get with the vibe (coding)
Palo Alto Networks explained how its vibe coding innovations now allow software application developers and cybersecurity professionals to use natural language inputs in order to generate, build code for and ultimately debug application services for cyber protection. The end game goal or North Star here is, obviously, to lower mean time to resolution and the company predicts in the region of a 50% productivity gain when these new tools are put to work.
These new advancements come about through internal development processes, which have been bolstered in this space by Palo Alto Networks having acquired a company called Protect AI last year. Looking back to this acquisition briefly, the company stated that the integration of Protect AI’s technology and its team of experts will be a cornerstone of Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma® AIRS™, the company’s runtime security tool.
“Organisations are increasingly building complex ecosystems of AI models, applications, and agents. This creates a dynamic new attack surface with risks that traditional security approaches cannot address. The combination of Protect AI and Palo Alto Networks brings together model scanning, posture management, AI red teaming, runtime protection, and AI agent security, enabling Prisma AIRS to help businesses confidently deploy AI-driven innovation while ensuring a formidable security posture from development through runtime,” noted Palo Alto Networks in July 2025.
Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot)
Palo Alto Networks also used this event to remind us why Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) may signal the next AI security crisis. What we (users, developers, cybersecurity pros, everyone basically) need to remember is that an AI agent may be secure in and of itself, but connected AI agent security is a fundamentally different question.
Clawdbot, which was recently renamed Moltbot, is defined by its creators as “the AI that actually does things.” Due to its expanded agentic capabilities and built-in autonomy, it has collected over 85,000 GitHub stars and has been forked over 11500 times already, all in about a week.
“It can browse the web, summarise PDFs, schedule calendar entries, shop for you, read and write files, and send emails on your behalf. It already has integrations with several widely used messaging and mailing applications from WhatsApp to Telegram. It can take screenshots and analyse and control your desktop applications. But the key is that it has persistent memory. It can remember interactions from weeks ago, even months. Due to this, it can be an always available personal AI assistant that works,” explained Palo Alto Networks product marketing manager Sailesh Mishra and Sean Morgan, senior director of technical marketing on the Palo Alto Networks blog.
The view from the global CIO
Palo Alto Networks’ global CIO Meerah Rajavel also spoke at Ignite London. She went to some efforts to explain how much momentum already exists in AI usage i.e. even layperson non-technical users are already seeing productivity gains from it, so putting the brakes on now would be next to impossible.
Far from baulking at the idea of putting holds in place, Rajavel was upbeat about the use of AI and she underlined how the company wants to use it at the highest (and indeed the lowest) level to ensure its software development team is efficient and productive.
Warning against the use of shadow AI even in any organisation, Rajavel wants companies to take a serious approach to AI governance and control. It stems from what she called the “moral responsibility for 80,000 customers” that the company itself has… as well as the need to make sure software supply chain risk fragilities are never introduced.
Chronosphere consumption, completed
As part of the news tabled at this year’s Palo Alto Networks Ignite on tour London 2026, the company explained how it has completed its acquisition of Chronosphere, in a move to address a core challenge of the AI era i.e. the inability to see and secure the massive data volumes running modern businesses.
Chronosphere is an observability platform company that is purpose-built for scale. The company says that while legacy tools break down in cloud-native environments, Chronosphere gives customers deep visibility across their entire digital estate. The acquisition is Palo Alto Networks aiming to enable users to gain deep, real-time visibility into their applications, infrastructure and AI systems — while maintaining strict control over data cost and value.
The planned integration of Palo Alto Networks Cortex AgentiX with Chronosphere’s cloud-native observability platform is promised to allow customers to apply AI agents that can now find and fix security and IT issues automatically. The company tells us that “AI security without deep observability is blind” and so this acquisition delivers the essential context across models, prompts, users and performance to move from manual guessing to autonomous remediation.
“Enterprises today are looking for fewer vendors, deeper partnerships and platforms they can rely on for mission-critical security and operations. Chronosphere accelerates our vision to be the indispensable platform for securing and operating the cloud and AI. We believe that great security starts with deep visibility into all your data, and Chronosphere provides that foundation for our customers,” noted a Palo Alto Networks spokesperson.
Arora and team tell us that the Chronosphere Telemetry Pipeline remains available as a standalone solution, with a promise to enable organisations to eliminate the “data tax” associated with modern security operations. By acting as an intelligent control layer, the pipeline can filter low-value noise to reduce data volumes by 30% or more and has been shown to require 20x less infrastructure than legacy alternatives. This will be key to Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex XSIAM strategy.
Key takeaways from Ignite London
In terms of key takeaways from the Ignite on tour London 2026 event, it’s clear that Palo Alto Networks is on a mission to a) elevate itself and be heard a whole lot more in a cyber security market that is increasingly crowded and always overpopulated with enterprise vendors… and b) the company is successfully driving forward its platformisation strategy, as organisations move from isolated solutions to centralized ecosystems that offer comprehensive protection against AI fuelled threats.
Oh and London as a tech event venue? Palo Alto Networks used the fabulous Old Billingsgate Market as its location for Ignite on tour 2026 and there is absolutely nothing fishy about that.
