NTT DATA and Palo Alto Networks have announced a multi-year strategic alliance aimed at helping organizations securely adopt AI, modernize cybersecurity, and build cyber resilience for the AI era. Marking Palo Alto Networks’ first alliance of this kind with a global systems integrator, the agreement targets $1 billion in joint business by the end of 2029, combining Palo Alto Networks’ AI-powered cybersecurity platforms with NTT DATA’s consulting, engineering, and managed services.
Through joint engineering, co-innovation, and coordinated global delivery, the alliance is meant to help clients assess cyber risk, deploy AI securely, and continuously optimize their security posture, giving them a unified approach spanning strategy, implementation, and managed services.
Building on the companies’ existing Frontier AI collaboration, the partnership brings together Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat intelligence with NTT DATA’s cybersecurity expertise, AI governance capabilities, and managed services. It’s backed by joint investments and more than 2,000 certified experts, including dedicated Forward Deployed Engineers, with the goal of streamlining deployments and speeding up client outcomes. Through direct engineering collaboration, NTT DATA will also get early access to new platform features, helping accelerate delivery of AI security services to clients.
Initial solutions will target cybersecurity challenges facing regulated and critical industries such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and the public sector, spanning six strategic areas: modernizing security operations through an Autonomous Security Operations Center powered by agentic AI and managed services; embedding governance, security, and risk management throughout the AI lifecycle; protecting human, machine, and AI agent identities through an Identity Security Framework; securing users, applications, and data through unified Zero Trust and SASE architecture; improving visibility and risk reduction across multi-cloud environments through resilient cloud security; and modernizing firewall environments to reduce complexity and strengthen enterprise security
NTT DATA also brings more than 7,500 cybersecurity professionals, over 70 delivery centers, and more than 20 Cyber Defense Centers to the collaboration, which paired with Palo Alto Networks’ AI-powered platforms and Unit 42 threat intelligence, provides enterprise organizations the technology, expertise, and global reach needed to securely deploy AI across complex environments.
