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Nikesh Arora discusses the future of cybersecurity and AI threats with Molly O'Shea.

Nikesh Arora is the Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, the cybersecurity giant that has grown from roughly $18 billion in market cap when he joined to around $300 billion today. We sat down at Palo Alto Networks to discuss why Nikesh believes the AI cybersecurity boom is only beginning, how companies will defend themselves against increasingly powerful AI attacks and rogue agents, and why the time between discovering a vulnerability and exploiting it is collapsing. Nikesh also explains why he signed Jensen Huang’s recent open-source AI letter, what the rise of autonomous agents means for enterprise security, and why he believes the entire software industry will be rewritten over the next decade. We also go inside the operating playbook behind Palo Alto Networks’ rise, including 40+ acquisitions in eight years, the $28 billion CyberArk deal, Nikesh’s “paranoia” about disruption, hiring AI-native talent through hackathons, and the lessons he took from Larry Page at Google and Masayoshi Son at SoftBank. Nikesh Arora: https://x.com/nikesharora Molly O’Shea: https://x.com/MollySOShea Sourcery: ⁠ https://x.com/sourceryy 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊 YouTube…

People in this episode

Host: Molly O'Shea

Guest: Nikesh Arora

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• AI attacks
• enterprise security
• software industry
• acquisitions
• vulnerability exploitation

Keywords

• Palo Alto Networks
• AI cybersecurity
• vulnerability
• autonomous agents
• acquisitions
• disruption
• hackathons

Sponsors

Brex, Turing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Palo Alto Networks, CyberArk, Google, SoftBank

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