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Palo Alto Networks competitors, on the record
The companies Palo Alto Networks names as competitors in its annual reports, 2024 to 2026, and the companies that name Palo Alto Networks, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Palo Alto Networks names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Alphabet Inc. | 2026 |
In its own words
Alphabet Inc.
Word for word“Our main competitors fall into four categories: • large companies that incorporate security or observability features in their products, such as Alphabet Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., and Microsoft Corporation, or those that have acquired, or may acquire, security vendors and have the technical and financial resources to bring competitive solutions to the market; • independent vendors that offer a mix of security products, such as Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc., Delinea Inc., Fortinet, Inc., Okta, Inc., SailPoint Technologies, Inc., and Zscaler, Inc., vendors that offer a mix of observability products, such as DataDog, Inc., Dynatrace, Inc., and Elasticsearch B.V., or vendors that may offer a mix of security and observability products; • startups and point-product vendors that offer independent or emerging solutions across various areas of security; and • public cloud vendors and startups that offer solutions for cloud security (private, public, and hybrid cloud).” 10-K for 2026
Who names Palo Alto Networks
Companies whose own annual reports name Palo Alto Networks as a competitor.
Word for word“The principal competitors in this segment include: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, BMC, Broadcom, Informatica, Microsoft, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce, SAP and Splunk.” 10-K for 2023
Check Point Software Technologies
Word for word“Our competitors include Cisco Systems, Inc., Fortinet Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Inc. and SonicWall Inc. and other companies in the network security space.” 20-F for 2025
Word for word“Our competitors (in each case relative to only some of our products or services) include: Amazon Web Services LLC; Arista Networks, Inc.; Broadcom Inc.; Ciena Corporation; CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Datadog Inc.; Dell Technologies Inc.; Dynatrace Inc.; Fortinet, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nvidia Corporation; Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; RingCentral, Inc.; Zoom Video Communications, Inc.; and Zscaler, Inc.; among others.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Accordingly, we may also compete for budget priority, to a certain extent, with other cybersecurity solutions offered by Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and CrowdStrike.” 20-F for 2024
Word for word“Our competitors include companies such as Check Point, Cisco, CrowdStrike, F5 Networks, HPE, Huawei, Microsoft, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, SonicWALL, Sophos, and Zscaler.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our primary competitors are technology vendors, such as Cisco Systems, Inc., Arista Networks Inc, Nokia Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Ciena Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, Extreme Networks, Inc., Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Inc., Zscaler, Inc., Netskope, Inc., Ruckus Networks, and Ubiquiti and networking-as-a-service vendors such as Nile and Meter.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“In addition, there are a number of other competitors in the security network infrastructure space, including Cisco, Huawei, Nokia, Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd., Fortinet, Inc., Zscaler, Inc., Netskope, Inc., and Forcepoint LLC, among others, who tend to be focused specifically on security solutions and, therefore, may be considered specialized compared to our broader product line.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“Our Azure Security offerings include our cloud security solution and security information and event management solution, which compete with companies such as Palo Alto Networks and Cisco.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“Our competitors include large public companies, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle that offer identity solutions within their product portfolios, and identity centric solution providers, including Palo Alto Networks (CyberArk), Okta, and One Identity.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Our competitors include the following: • endpoint security providers, such as CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (CrowdStrike) and Carbon Black (within Broadcom, Inc.); • legacy antivirus providers such as Trellix (formerly McAfee Corp.), Symantec (a subsidiary of Broadcom, Inc.) (Symantec), and Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft); • providers of general network security products and services who offer a broad portfolio of solutions, such as Palo Alto Networks, Inc.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Our online cybersecurity solutions compete against providers of cybersecurity solutions and related software, such as Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, Gen Digital Inc., Kape Technologies, KnowBe4, and Malwarebytes.” 10-K for 2025
Read from Palo Alto Networks’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-09-10. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.