Expand your unified ecosystem of sovereign AI by securing your physical and digital AI Factory foundations
barcelona, spain, March 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As the world’s networks pivot to operating high-performance AI factories, Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global leader in AI cybersecurity, today announced an enhanced security ecosystem designed to protect this new industrial backbone. At Mobile World Congress 2026, the company announced four collaborations. Nokia, Umobile, Aeris, and cellar way This enables enterprises to scale with sovereign AI and secure an autonomous edge without sacrificing performance.
Anand Oswal, Executive Vice President, Palo Alto Networks
“Through extensive ecosystem collaboration, we are establishing a secure foundation for the AI economy. By seamlessly integrating our AI-powered security services directly from our data centers into the world’s most important 5G and IoT networks, we are ensuring our AI factories are secure by design. These partnerships enable us to build a secure digital infrastructure that can manage the multi-terabits of throughput needed to train AI models.”
Palo Alto Networks and Nokia is positioning its proven data center security to support the rise of Europe’s ‘gigafactory’. By combining Nokia’s AI data center infrastructure with Palo Alto Networks’ industry-leading AI platform, customers can scale high-performance AI workloads while meeting their data sovereignty needs.
Greg Dorai, Senior Vice President and General Manager, IP Networks, Nokia
“In the race to build the world’s AI factories, we can’t afford to leave the door open at the infrastructure layer. Together, Nokia and Palo Alto Networks envision a comprehensive architectural and operational framework that extends security solutions from the network layer to workloads. Our validated architecture will enable our customers to future-proof their sovereign data centers. We’re not just providing connectivity, we’re protecting the physical and digital integrity of industrial digitization at scale.”
Additionally, Palo Alto Networks will introduce three additional partnerships at MWC Barcelona that extend security from the carrier’s core infrastructure and provide foundational resiliency through an integrated partner ecosystem.
- U Mobile: Real-time protection for consumers and businesses: Palo Alto Networks announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with U Mobile, Malaysia’s newest 5G network provider, to collaborate on network-embedded Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) solutions to protect customers from growing cybersecurity threats. By integrating next-generation firewalls and AI-powered security directly into 4G and 5G infrastructure, U Mobile aims to provide customers with proactive, built-in protection against digital risks.
- Aerith: Unified visibility of your global IoT fleet: Mission-critical industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and utilities will benefit from the ability to scale their AI and 5G efforts globally while reducing the attack surface of the billions of devices feeding data into the AI factory. By integrating Aeris IoT Watchtower with Prisma® SASE 5G, enterprises can apply data loss prevention and zero trust policies to millions of wireless devices from a single point of control, bridging traditional security gaps at the wireless edge.
- cellar way communication: Enterprise security perimeter extended to the distributed edge: First responders and remote teams can benefit from data center-class protection in the field. Integration with Celerway and Palo Alto Networks’ VM Series next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) enables mission-critical 5G edge devices to maintain a consistently rigorous security posture and encrypted data integrity even when operating in high-mobility or harsh environments far from a central hub.
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