Palo Alto Networks has acquired Console, an AI-native platform designed to deliver agentic capabilities across enterprise operations, as the cybersecurity giant advances plans to automate security investigation, prioritization, and response workflows.
The acquisition, announced September 1, 2026, will deepen agentic AI capabilities within Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex security operations platform.
The company said Console’s technology is intended to help security teams analyze alerts, resolve operational issues, and execute requests at machine speed through AI-driven workflows.
Palo Alto Networks Acquires Console to Bring Autonomous AI Agents
Console enables organizations to express operational goals in natural language and use AI agents to handle the underlying complexity.
Palo Alto Networks said the technology will support a shift away from traditional security operations models that rely heavily on dashboards, manual ticket queues, and repetitive analyst work.
“Security operations can no longer be about managing dashboards and queuing tickets just to help humans work faster,” said Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks.
“By bringing Console into Palo Alto Networks, our customers can have a direct conversation with data and build agentic workflows in natural language that helps alert and remediate issues automatically.”
The company described the strategy as “software-as-an-agent,” in which intelligent software can perform actions rather than merely provide recommendations or visualizations.
In a security operations context, that could mean agents gathering context from multiple tools, determining alert priority, recommending containment measures, and potentially automating approved remediation activities.
Palo Alto Networks plans to integrate Console into Cortex, its security operations portfolio. The combined capabilities are expected to help organizations investigate security signals, prioritize work, and take action across enterprise environments with more speed and operational context.
The move comes as security teams face increasing alert volumes, expanding attack surfaces, and pressure to respond faster to AI-enabled threats.
Autonomous and semi-autonomous agents are increasingly being positioned as a way to reduce analyst overhead, streamline incident response processes, and allow human defenders to focus on high-impact investigations and decisions.
Console Co-Founder and CEO Andrei Serban said the company was built around enabling users to define an operational objective while intelligent software carries out the required tasks.
“Our customers have already proven that agents can dramatically slash overhead and transform their business,” Serban said. “Joining Palo Alto Networks gives our team the security expertise, platform foundation, and global scale to bring that vision to the world’s largest enterprises.”
Palo Alto Networks said the acquisition will help make agentic operations faster to deploy, safer to govern, and more effective for large enterprises.
However, the company did not disclose the transaction’s financial terms or provide a timeline for specific product integrations or general availability.
The company also cautioned that references to unreleased services and features do not indicate they are currently available or guaranteed for delivery. Palo Alto Networks said customers should base purchase decisions on capabilities that are generally available.
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