Zero Networks has announced a significant expansion of its partnership with Palo Alto Networks, enhancing their joint security offerings. The collaboration now extends beyond automated microsegmentation and firewall policy orchestration to include zero-touch containment and AI security features.
The initial integration between Zero Networks and Palo Alto Networks combined asset discovery, dynamic tagging, and identity-driven microsegmentation with Next-Generation Firewalls. With the latest expansion, users can now benefit from the ability to identify and contain threats at the individual asset level. This is achieved by redirecting specific traffic to Palo Alto Networks for in-depth inspection and managing policy enforcement via Strata Cloud Manager. Additionally, AI agents can be governed and AI traffic inspected by integrating Zero Networks’ AI Segmentation with Prisma AIRS.
Streamlined Communication Mapping
Adopting a unified protection strategy, the integration allows businesses to apply consistent security measures across on-premises, cloud, OT, Kubernetes, and hybrid infrastructures. Zero Networks facilitates zero-touch containment by continuously mapping asset communication, leading to automatic creation of least-privilege policies based on observed activities.
Through the expanded partnership, customers can redirect traffic from protected workloads to Palo Alto Networks firewalls for enhanced Layer 7 inspection. Currently, this feature is available for Linux, with plans to include Windows support, thereby broadening inspection and containment capabilities.
Unified Asset and Policy Management
Zero Networks facilitates zero-touch containment by continuously mapping asset communication
Utilizing the Strata Cloud Manager, security teams can now consolidate views of asset and policy management, including assets managed by Zero Networks and controls applied by Palo Alto Networks. The dynamic tagging of assets ensures that policies remain up-to-date amid changes such as IP address shifts and the appearance of new assets, which mitigates the need for manual updates to firewall rules.
The integration expands the capability of AI threat prevention by uniting Zero Networks’ AI Segmentation with Prisma AIRS from Palo Alto Networks. This combination allows for management of AI agents, applying identity-focused protocols to restrict their system and destination access, while redirecting specific AI traffic for detailed inspection to mitigate unauthorized AI activities.
Comprehensive Security Solution
According to Benny Lakunishok, Co-founder and CEO of Zero Networks, “Zero Networks controls which connections are allowed, Palo Alto Networks provides deep inspection. Together, we can contain malicious activity before it can move across the environment.”
This collaboration empowers organizations to automatically contain compromised assets using zero-touch, identity-driven microsegmentation, redirect traffic for thorough inspection, manage assets through a unified interface, and regulate AI traffic comprehensively.
Dynamic Asset Synchronization
The use of Zero Networks and Palo Alto Networks’ existing enforcement capabilities eliminates the need for network redesigns or extensive manual segmentation rule creation as organizations enhance their protection measures.
The expanded integration offers a comprehensive suite of features like automated microsegmentation, dynamic asset tagging, policy synchronization, and Linux traffic redirection, now available for implementation.
Zero Networks, the provider of Zero Trust security solutions, announces a major expansion of its integration with Palo Alto Networks, extending the companies’ joint solution from automated microsegmentation and firewall policy orchestration to zero-touch containment and AI security.
The original integration combined Zero Networks’ automated asset discovery, dynamic tagging, and identity-driven microsegmentation with Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls. The expanded integration enables customers to use Zero Networks to identify and contain threats at the individual asset level, redirect selected traffic to Palo Alto Networks security services for deeper inspection, and manage enforcement through Strata Cloud Manager. The integration also brings together Zero Networks AI Segmentation and Prisma AIRS to govern AI agents and inspect AI traffic.
Continuously mapping communication
Rather than deploying separate controls for the perimeter, internal network, and AI environment, customers can apply consistent protection across on-premises, cloud, OT, Kubernetes and hybrid infrastructure.
Zero Networks enables zero-touch containment by continuously mapping communication between assets and automatically creating least-privilege policies based on observed business activity. Through the expanded integration, selected traffic from protected workloads can be redirected to Palo Alto Networks firewalls for deeper Layer 7 inspection, enabling the platforms to block suspicious activity and contain affected assets before threats spread. Traffic redirection is available today for Linux environments, with Windows support planned, extending deep inspection and automated containment to Windows systems across the enterprise attack surface.
Identity-based policies
Zero Networks-managed assets and policies can now be surfaced through Strata Cloud Manager, giving security teams a consolidated view of discovered assets, segmentation policies, and the Palo Alto Networks controls inspecting their traffic. Dynamic asset tagging keeps policies current as workloads move, IP addresses change, and new assets appear, reducing the need to manually maintain static firewall rules.
The expanded integration brings Zero Networks AI Segmentation together with Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS to provide security controls for AI agents and their traffic. Zero Networks identifies and governs AI agents, applying identity-based policies to restrict each agent to approved systems and destinations, while blocking unsanctioned AI services. When deeper inspection is needed, selected AI traffic can be redirected to Prisma AIRS for AI-aware threat prevention, combining control over where AI agents can connect with inspection of their prompts, responses, and data flows.
Identity-based microsegmentation
“Zero Networks controls which connections are allowed, Palo Alto Networks provides deep inspection,” said Benny Lakunishok, Co-founder and CEO of Zero Networks. “Together, we can contain malicious activity before it can move across the environment.”
The joint solution enables organizations to:
- Contain compromised assets automatically with zero-touch, identity-based microsegmentation.
- Redirect selected traffic for Layer 7 inspection through Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
- Manage assets and policies through Strata Cloud Manager for unified visibility and enforcement.
- Govern AI agents and inspect AI traffic using Zero Networks AI Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS.
- Synchronize asset context with Palo Alto Networks Dynamic Address Groups.
Dynamic asset tagging
The integration uses existing Zero Networks and Palo Alto Networks enforcement capabilities, allowing customers to expand protection without redesigning the network or manually writing thousands of segmentation rules.
The expanded integration between Zero Networks and Palo Alto Networks is available now, including automated microsegmentation, dynamic asset tagging, policy synchronization, and Linux traffic redirection.
