Inside Nikesh Arora’s Deals Hunt for Palo Alto Networks

The Information | 26-08-2026 02:15pm |

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has been actively pursuing acquisitions, having acquired more than 40 companies in eight years. Over the past 18 months, his appetite for deals has intensified as he expands the company's products to address new AI threats and capture more revenue from existing customers. He explored acquiring Datadog, which sells software for security threat identification and cloud application monitoring, and Okta, which helps companies manage worker access to systems, according to sources.

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