Mumbai, India — April 02, 2026— Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today defined a new standard for operational resilience with the launch of Next-Generation TrustSecurity (NGTS). As the industry moves toward a mandatory 47-day certificate renewal cycle, NGTS transforms cryptographictrust from a manual, human error prone process to an automated network control, eliminating service outages and dramatically improving operational efficiency.
For decades, digital certificates - the "passports" of the digital economy - lasted years and changed rarely. Today, however,the enterprise has entered a period of continuous cryptographic reset: certificate lifetimes are shrinking by over 90%, encryption standards are shifting for a post-quantum world, and sudden decertification of global trust authorities can now force the immediatereplacement of thousands of certificates.
Anand Oswal, Executive Vice President of Network Security,Palo Alto Networks
“When digital trust breaks, the business stops. Expired or non-compliant certificates trigger outages that take business-criticalapplications, infrastructure, and cloud services offline. Managing updates manually takes considerable time and coordination across several teams, and with increased scale and speed requirements, a manual approach is no longer viable. With NGTS, and our quantum-safesecurity solution, the network becomes the ultimate control point to automate the cryptographic reset.”
NGTS is the industry’s first network-native platform that unifies certificate lifecycle management (CLM) with real-timenetwork visibility and enforcement. Available today, this unified defense enables businesses to:
- Gain Increased Visibility:Discover where trust lives across all network services and applications, eliminating the "shadow" certificates and blind spots that lead to security gaps.
- Facilitate Operational Resilience:Protect the business from certificate-related outages and trust failures by automatically identifying and refreshing credentials before they disrupt customer transactions or internal services.
- Build Cryptographic Agility:Accelerate the transition to a post-quantum future with automated lifecycle management built to handle faster renewal cycles and evolving encryption standards without manual effort.
Emanuel Figueroa, Senior Research Analyst, Identity and Access Management Security,Worldwide, IDC
“For years, the industry relied on a checkpoint model of trust — authenticateonce and assume safety. But in a post-quantum world with shrinking certificate lifecycles, that assumption no longer holds. Trust now has to adjust as quickly as the environment it protects. By moving certificate lifecycle management out of manual spreadsheetsand into a network-native platform, Palo Alto Networks is turning cryptographic maintenance into a continuous automated process rather than a periodic task. This isn't only about avoiding outages; it's about creating a unified security fabric where cryptographicagility is built in, keeping the business resilient even as encryption standards evolve beneath the stack.”
