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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

HIGHLIGHTS: Nikesh Arora - CEO of Palo Alto Networks

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Norges Bank Investment Management

In Good Company, Business, Norges Bank, Nicolai Tangen

4.8 • 186 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In our increasingly digital world, how do we protect ourselves from growing cyber threats? In this episode of In Good Company, Nicolai Tangen welcomes Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, to explore the fast-changing world of cybersecurity. As our homes, cars, and cities become increasingly connected, the opportunities for hackers grow—from targeting individuals to attacking critical infrastructure. They discuss who the "bad actors" really are, how AI is transforming both attacks and defenses, and why future conflicts will likely play out in both digital and physical battlefields. Nikesh also shares his journey from Google and SoftBank to leading a cybersecurity giant, and his approach to spotting tech trends early. Tune in!


In Good Company is hosted by Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management. New full episodes every Wednesday, and don't miss our Highlight episodes every Friday.


The production team for this episode includes Isabelle Karlsson and PLAN-B's Niklas Figenschau Johansen, Sebastian Langvik-Hansen and Pål Huuse. Background research was conducted by Kristian Haga.



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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. Tune in to this short version of the podcast, which we do every Friday, for the long version.

0:06.5

Tune in on Wednesdays.

0:08.7

Hi, everyone. I'm Nicola Tangan, the CEO of the Norwegian Soban Wealth Fund.

0:12.4

And today, I'm in really good company with Nikesh Aurora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks.

0:18.3

Palo Alto Networks is the world leader within cybersecurity, which has never been more important

0:23.2

than today.

0:24.3

We own 1.2% of the company translating into more than $1 billion.

0:30.1

Thank you so much, DeKesh, for taking the time.

0:33.9

Thank you, Nikolai.

0:34.8

Lovely to see you again.

0:35.9

Now, let's start off with the basics. What do you guys Nikolai. Lovely to see you again. Now, let's start off with basics. What do you guys do?

0:42.0

That's a good question. Look, as the world has digitized, as we've all adopted technology,

0:47.3

whether it's in our smartphones or as companies, make applications available to everyone,

0:52.1

the possibilities of bad actors getting into company systems

0:56.7

or our personal systems goes up. And our job is to protect that technology infrastructure

1:02.2

from bad actors. So we are in the business of cybersecurity, which is to protect our enterprise

1:07.2

customers, governments, and individuals from being hacked or attacked or coerced by bad actors.

1:13.5

Now, the thing is that everything is digitally these days, right?

1:16.3

Yes.

1:16.6

Your car, you know, streetlights.

1:20.1

So what's kind of happening with the whole attack surface?

1:24.3

Well, it's a great, great comment, Nikolai, because you've said it right. We call this the

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