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Palo Alto Networks closes Talon Cyber Security acquisition, will offer complimentary enterprise browser

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 28, 2023 -- Palo Alto Networks today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Talon Cyber Security, a pioneer of enterprise browser technology.

"We are thrilled to welcome Talon to Palo Alto Networks," said Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks. "Most work today occurs via web browsers, often on unmanaged devices, which poses enormous security risks. Through the seamless integration of Talon's Enterprise Browser with Prisma SASE, we will be elevating our best-in-class solution that helps provide ironclad security and data protection for all users across all applications and from any device or location. Additionally, we plan to extend Talon's cutting-edge Enterprise Browser technology to our qualified SASE AI customers at no additional cost." 

In today's evolving threat landscape, employees frequently use personal and unmanaged devices to access critical business applications, including using mobile devices alongside corporate laptops. While this approach increases productivity, the lack of consistent security, control and visibility across devices increases security risk.

To tackle these challenges, organizations need a holistic SASE solution that securely enables users to access vital business applications regardless of their chosen device. As part of that SASE solution, Talon's Enterprise Browser will provide additional layers of protection against phishing attacks, web-based attacks and malicious browser extensions.

Talon also offers extensive controls to help ensure that sensitive data does not escape the confines of the browser, regardless of whether the enterprise manages the device.

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE is the secure foundation for agile, cloud-enabled organizations. Integrating Talon with Prisma Access can provide customers with substantial productivity benefits by enabling unmanaged devices, but also ensures consistent security and deeper visibility into device usage, all while preserving user privacy.

This acquisition reinforces Prisma SASE's position as the most complete single-vendor SASE solution, enabling customers to adopt a unified SASE approach for complete Zero Trust security. Prisma SASE, along with the Enterprise Browser, are paramount to securing all web applications — public and private — and all devices, both managed and unmanaged.

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The offer of complimentary Talon Enterprise Browser for Palo Alto Networks' qualified SASE AI customers will be available soon.

AI Startup Unicorns Cerebras and Glean Hire New Legal Chiefs

Cerebras Systems Inc. and Glean Technologies Inc., a pair of prominent startups in the generative artificial intelligence space, have enlisted new human legal executives as they expand operations.

Glean, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based company founded in 2019 by former Google engineers that’s reportedly nearing a $2 billion valuation, this month recruited former aiXplain Inc. general counsel Victor Huang. A Glean spokeswoman said that Huang started Dec. 4 as its first head of legal.

Cerebras, a chipmaker specializing in artificial intelligence processors, confirmed it hired Shirley Li this month as general counsel. Li is a former Goodwin Procter associate who most recently was chief legal and people officer for Snapdocs Inc., a real estate and mortgage technology startup. She takes over a role vacated earlier this year by Rebecca Boyden, the company’s first general counsel.

Cerebras, founded in 2016 and valued two years ago at more than $4 billion, made waves this year by announcing it built the first of nine artificial intelligence supercomputers in partnership with the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company is battling for a share of the competitive artificial intelligence hardware market with Nvidia Corp., a growing industry giant.

Fenwick & West advised Cerebras on its most recent Series F fundraising in late 2021. Fenwick has also handled trademark work for Cerebras, per public filings.

Glean said Huang began working for it in a part-time capacity in May. Huang previously spent more than a decade in-house at technology companies Rubrik Inc., Nutanix Inc., Illumina Inc., eBay Inc., and Dell EMC.

Huang is an expert on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and software legal issues, including “the interplay between copyright, patents, datasets, and machine learning models,” the company said.

Goodwin advised Glean on a Series C financing last year valuing it at $1 billion.

OpenAI, whose top lawyers recently stood behind the ChatGPT parent company’s embattled CEO Sam Altman, has been busy in recent months recruiting lawyers from Big Tech as the startup faces various corporate governance, legal, and public policy and regulatory issues.

In November, OpenAI added Google senior privacy counsel Cary Bassin—a former lawyer in the Justice Department’s national security division—as senior counsel for artificial intelligence privacy and governance.

That same month Replit Inc., a startup software development platform that struck a partnership with Google this year to use artificial intelligence to complete code, promoted associate general counsel Robert Kohse to head of legal and corporate secretary. Kohse succeeded Cecilia Ziniti, Replit’s former legal chief and head of business development.

Lastly, Grafana Labs, a software maker valued at $5 billion that’s recently made a push into artificial intelligence, hired longtime former SurveyMonkey legal chief Lora Blum for the same role. A Grafana spokeswoman confirmed Blum was brought on Nov. 28 to oversee an in-house legal team that includes roughly a half-dozen lawyers and one senior legal operations manager.

Grafana, whose clients include Bloomberg Law parent Bloomberg LP, has turned to Cooley for outside counsel on its fundraising efforts. Seattle-based Stokes Lawrence has handled trademark matters for the company.