“We built Console around a simple idea: people should be able to express an operational goal, and intelligent software should handle the complexity required to achieve it,” said Console CEO and co-founder Andrei Serban in a statement. “Our customers have already proven that agents can dramatically slash overhead and transform their business.”
“By bringing Console into Palo Alto Networks, our customers can have a direct conversation with data and build agentic workflows in natural language that help alert and remediate issues automatically,” Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, said in a statement. “This is the shift to software-as-an-agent, giving our platform the arms and legs to deliver autonomous security outcomes across the entire enterprise.”
The Console purchase follows other significant security buys by Palo Alto. It completed its $3.35 billion acquisition of cloud observability platform Chronosphere in January of this year, and it closed its $25 billion acquisition of CyberArk in February. Palo Alto also grabbed endpoint security startup Koi for an estimated $400 million in April, and it completed its acquisition of AI agent security firm Portkey in May.