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Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Palo Alto Networks raised.
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| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Janet Docherty | Director for Channel Sales and Alliances for Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) | ARN (ARNnet) |
| Nikesh Arora | CEO and Chairman | ARN (ARNnet) |
| Rob Nobilo | Executive (former) | ARN (ARNnet) |
Stories naming Palo Alto Networks. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Google Cloud has committed US$750 million to a new partner fund for agentic AI resources and incentives, unveiled at Cloud Next; the piece also recalls Google's March acquisition of security firm Wiz.
Accenture plans to buy Melbourne cybersecurity firm CyberCX, a transaction reported at over a billion dollars that still needs foreign investment approval. CyberCX was co-founded by John Paitaridis and Alastair MacGibbon.
Accenture is buying CyberCX, a Melbourne-founded cyber security services provider with some 1400 staff, in its biggest such deal yet; the price is reported at more than $1 billion, pending regulatory approvals.
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Weekly roundup of four Australian raises: HammerTech $105m led by Riverwood Capital, JigSpace $13m led by Breakthrough Victoria, ExoFlare's $5.3m seed, and Go Locum's $350,000 seed led by Paspalis.
Telco Superloop has earned MSSP accreditation from Palo Alto Networks for its Prisma SASE offering, after meeting service implementation and certification criteria.
Telstra Purple, Telstra's services arm, appoints ex-BT security executive Luke Barker to lead its newly formed security division, shortly after the telco announced a cyber security technology alliance with Palo Alto Networks.
Square Peg's retrospective of 2019: five new portfolio companies, several large rounds it led or co-led, two acquisitions, two IPOs, new team members, and its capital deployed across new and follow-on deals.
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Virsec has hired former Palo Alto Networks executives Rob Nobilo and Ben Burt as its first Australia and New Zealand leaders, running sales and technical services as the security vendor expands in the region.
Palo Alto Networks has agreed to buy attack surface management firm Expanse for about US$800 million, with Expanse's platform set to join the Cortex suite and its co-founders moving across.