Zero Networks has announced an enhancement to its collaborative efforts with Palo Alto Networks, focusing on extending their existing partnership to the realms of zero-touch containment and AI security. This expansion builds on their previous integration by providing a comprehensive solution that incorporates Zero Networks' capabilities in asset discovery and microsegmentation alongside Palo Alto Networks' firewall technology.
The newly expanded integration allows users to leverage Zero Networks to identify and contain threats at an individual asset level. This encompasses redirecting specific traffic to Palo Alto Networks’ security services for thorough inspection and managing enforcement via Strata Cloud Manager. An additional feature is the unification of Zero Networks AI Segmentation with Prisma AI-RS to inspect AI-driven activities.
Consistent protection across environments
This integration fosters streamlined security by eliminating the need for disparate controls across different network regions. It provides uniform protection that spans on-premises, cloud, OT, Kubernetes, and hybrid infrastructures. The system facilitates zero-touch containment by consistently mapping communication between assets and establishing least-privilege policies based on business activity.
Selected traffic from protected workloads can be rerouted to Palo Alto Networks firewalls for in-depth Layer 7 inspection, offering a barrier against malicious activities. Currently accessible for Linux systems, Windows support is on the horizon, promising comprehensive inspection and automation capabilities across various enterprise attack surfaces.
Unified policy management
Through this integration, security teams gain a consolidated overview of managed assets
Through this integration, security teams gain a consolidated overview of managed assets and segmentation policies using Strata Cloud Manager, synchronised with Palo Alto Networks controls. This dynamic asset tagging system adapts alongside moving workloads, changing IP addresses, and the introduction of new assets, minimising the need for manual adjustments of firewall rules.
The expanded capabilities merge Zero Networks AI Segmentation with Palo Alto Networks Prisma AI-RS, providing robust governance over AI traffic. They establish identity-based policies to ensure AI agents are confined to approved locations, blocking unauthorised services. Deep inspection can redirect specific AI traffic to Prisma AI-RS, working in tandem to inspect prompts, responses, and data flows.
Microsegmentation and inspection
"Zero Networks controls which connections are allowed, Palo Alto Networks provides deep inspection," stated Benny Lakunishok, Co-founder and CEO of Zero Networks. "Together, we can contain malicious activity before it can move across the environment."
Offering key benefits
The joint solution allows organisations to:
- Automatically contain compromised assets with zero-touch, identity-based microsegmentation.
- Redirect specific traffic for Layer 7 inspection through Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
- Manage assets and policies through Strata Cloud Manager for unified visibility and enforcement.
- Administer AI agents and inspect AI traffic using Zero Networks AI Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks Prisma AI-RS.
- Synchronise asset context with Palo Alto Networks Dynamic Address Groups.
Immediate implementation
Utilising existing enforcement capabilities from both Zero Networks and Palo Alto Networks, this integration allows customers to extend their protection strategies without overhauling network designs or excessively crafting segmentation rules. The expanded array of features—encompassing automated microsegmentation, dynamic asset tagging, and more—is available now.
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 organisations 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.
- Synchronise 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 synchronisation, and Linux traffic redirection.
