Future of Business: Palo Alto Networks’ Nikesh Arora on Managing Risk in the Age of AI

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Palo Alto Networks is the leading global cybersecurity company. Over his six-year tenure there, CEO Nikesh Arora has expanded and reorganized the organization, including safely incorporating generative AI into all of its products. Nikesh explains how he’s managing new opportunities and risks in the age of generative AI – including the single cybersecurity risk that keeps him up at night. He also shares his approach to leading innovation and evolving Palo Alto’s go-to-market strategy when new technologies are developing so rapidly.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the HBRidecast from Harvard Business Review.
0:13.8	I'm Alison Beard.
0:29.8	Throughout this month, we've been sharing conversations with CEOs and founders about artificial intelligence and other critical issues facing leaders today.
0:39.6	We wrap up our Future of Business series with Nikesh Aurora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, the leading global cybersecurity company. Over his six-year tenure, Nakesh has expanded and reorganized the business to meet the full
0:44.2	suite of enterprise and government client needs, including safely incorporating Gen.
0:48.7	I was excited to speak with him at our recent virtual future of business conference
0:55.2	about how he's managing new opportunities and risks and his strategy for innovation when
1:00.3	new technologies are developing so rapidly. Here's our conversation, which includes a few
1:05.7	questions from the audience. Let me just start with talking about the threat and the opportunity of AI in the world of cybersecurity.
1:20.6	You said that the only way to fight AI from bad actors is with AI from good ones.
1:26.6	So what tools are corporate cyber attackers
1:29.2	developing and what tools are you building to stop them? How do you stay ahead?
1:33.5	If you all believe, which I think we do, that this is going to have some sort of transformative
1:38.9	power. How when it fully sort of manifests itself still remains to be seen, but I've never seen a technology trend move so fast.
1:47.4	And there'd be so much excitement around it.
1:49.2	And at the most fundamental level, we expect that things will happen faster.
1:54.2	As development accelerates, we will end up creating more and more connectivity across the entire landscape.
1:59.5	Our cars will be connected, our homes will be connected,
2:02.1	our street lamps will be connected.
2:04.3	You know, you'll have technology everywhere.
2:06.5	In that scenario, in that environment,
2:08.9	when everything gets connected,
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