The rise of the AI enterprise
Companies are being redefined not just by their software, but by the way they get work done. Enterprise software has evolved from traditional web apps to AI applications and autonomous agent systems running across cloud and SaaS environments. Developers are using agent endpoints to build the next generation of AI and agent-driven applications. Employees use the Agent Browser to update records in CRM systems, generate reports, reconcile data between tools, and run workflows between applications, often without switching context.
AI is no longer just a tool used by employees. It’s an AI enterprise. It is becoming the digital surface of the enterprise, where work is done, decisions are made, and actions are taken by autonomous systems.
At Palo Alto Networks, we recognized the security implications early on.
Introducing Prisma AIRS® 3.0 – A unified security platform to protect your AI enterprise end-to-end.
Yesterday’s security models won’t protect tomorrow’s enterprise
Traditional security was built for deterministic software, systems where the same input produces the same output. AI companies are unlike anything you’ve seen before. Risk is no longer confined to one layer. It’s system-wide. Starting with the AI supply chain, compromised models, agent code, and external context shape pre-execution behavior. Next, enterprises extend posture risk by running over-authorized agents throughout the environment. This is visible at runtime and allows you to redirect behavior in the middle of a task. Finally, it is decomposed at the identity layer where agents operate with weakly managed delegated access.
Agents do not act alone. These coordinate other agents and a single failure can cascade throughout the system. Traditional systems cannot be deployed this way. But this is how agent AI systems are deployed today.
Securing the AI enterprise requires a different approach built around the entire lifecycle of how agents operate. That means visibility before control, assessment before deployment, and protection at the speed of execution.
A point solution cannot solve this. Model scanners discover vulnerabilities, but cannot control their behavior. Runtime protection tools block input but cannot manage identity. Posture tools reveal misconfigurations but cannot manage interactions. What you need is an integrated platform built to secure your AI enterprise end-to-end.
Prisma AIRS 3.0 — Security for the AI enterprise
Prisma AIRS was built from the beginning to protect AI throughout its lifecycle. About two years ago, we introduced runtime protection for AI applications. In 2.0, we established more comprehensive security for AI applications, including model security, red teaming, and posture management. But the boundary has moved from applications to agents.
Prisma AIRS 3.0 extends its foundation to the AI enterprise, making it the most comprehensive in the industry agent security platformdesigned for systems that reason, decide, and act. We protect AI enterprises through an integrated approach of discovery, assessment, and protection.
Discover — From AI apps to agent surfaces
Security starts with visibility. But for AI companies, visibility needs to extend beyond applications.
Prisma AIRS 3.0 extends visibility across the AI enterprise. Map enterprise agents across cloud and SaaS environments, endpoint agents running on developer systems (including Vibe Coding agents), and browser-based agents. Organizations can gain real-time visibility into how these agents operate and reveal interactions with MCP servers, plugins, and tools. This brings shadow AI and unauthorized agents into perspective, eliminating one of the biggest blind spots in AI adoption.
What was once an inventory of applications is now a live map of autonomous systems running across the enterprise.
Evaluation — from model risk to agent behavior
AI applications have introduced new risks. Agents introduce new kinds of behavior. Prisma AIRS 3.0 monitors the behavior of autonomous systems before they operate.
Scanning agent artifacts Extend model scanning to agent artifacts to analyze agent code, MCP servers, as well as skills for insecure permissions, hidden vulnerabilities, and indirect injection paths.
Agent Red Teaming AI Red Teaming is built on AI Red Teaming with a multi-agent architecture that simulates real-life adversaries and tests how agents behave under conditions such as tool misuse and manipulated inputs.
Agent posture management Continuously assess risk for agents operating across 12 different agent SaaS and cloud platforms to understand risks as your systems evolve in real time.
This is a transition from identifying weaknesses in components to understanding how the entire system behaves under pressure.
Protection — from runtime defense to governance and control
The defining challenge for AI companies is not detection. It’s the controls that monitor unauthorized tool invocations, enforce agent identity, and stop threats like prompt injection and memory poisoning before they propagate throughout the fleet.
AI agent gateway Serves as the control plane for the AI enterprise, managing tool invocation, model access, and external connectivity. All agent interactions are enforced through centralized policies.
Agent identity security Assign each agent a managed identity with precise permissions and full traceability to ensure actions are attributable and enforceable.
Agent runtime security Extend protection to agent-specific threats such as tool misuse, memory manipulation, and adversarial instructions to stop threats when they occur.
agent tick endpoint security Extend protection to the endpoint and control how agents interact with local systems, files, and workflows.
Secure the core of your AI enterprise
AI companies cannot be protected with fragmented tools. It requires visibility across all AI surfaces, continuous evaluation of evolving systems, identity and access controls for who can act, and real-time control over how actions are performed.
Prisma AIRS 3.0 provides this as a single platform with an integrated control plane. It replaces point solutions by integrating visibility, reputation, identity, and runtime enforcement built around how AI actually works.
It protects the foundations of the AI enterprise (AI applications and enterprise agents) and extends across agent endpoints and agent browsers, covering the entire digital surface where autonomous execution transforms workflows.
Stay tuned for more information about the Prisma AIRS 3.0 platform.
The AI enterprise is currently under construction. Find out how you can better secure your future with Prisma AIRS. bravely deploy.
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