Palo Alto updates security platform to discover AI agents
Summary
Palo Alto Networks updated its Prisma AIRS security platform to help organizations discover and protect AI agents (independent software programs that perform tasks automatically) across their IT environments, including scanning for vulnerabilities and simulating attacks. As companies rapidly deploy AI agents in business applications, the platform adds new security features like Agent Artifact Security, which maps an agent's structure and finds weaknesses, and AI Red Teaming for Agents, which simulates realistic attacks to identify risks and recommend security policies.
Solution / Mitigation
Prisma AIRS 3.0 provides discovery of AI agents across cloud environments, SaaS platforms, and local endpoints; Agent Artifact Security to scan agent architecture for vulnerabilities; and AI Red Teaming for Agents to simulate context-aware attacks and recommend runtime security policies. Prisma Browser includes the ability to discover user-generated AI activity, enforce content-aware boundaries on agents, prevent sensitive data leakage to unmanaged AI tools, identify and block prompt injection attacks (malicious instructions hidden in website content designed to hijack AI agents), and provide real-time distinction between human and automated AI actions.
Classification
Affected Vendors
Original source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/4148974/palo-alto-updates-security-platform-to-discover-ai-agents.html
First tracked: March 24, 2026 at 02:00 AM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 92%