Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora goes one-on-one with Jim Cramer

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  September 01, 2026 at 23:59  |  9:42  |  CNBC
Speakers
Jim Cramer — Host, Mad Money
Nikesh Arora — CEO, Palo Alto Networks

Summary

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora discusses strong quarterly results and guidance with Jim Cramer. He argues AI weaponization is turning cybersecurity into a modernization supercycle, with legacy security needing replacement and AI data centers requiring new protections. Arora says platformization, AI-first products, and the company's Mythos partnership are accelerating Palo Alto's growth.

  • Palo Alto Networks delivered much better-than-expected results and strong current-quarter and full-year guidance.
  • Arora says AI fears reversed: cybersecurity will feast alongside AI rather than be displaced.
  • He estimates $1 trillion of legacy security infrastructure needs modernization and $5 trillion in AI data-center capex creates new security demand.
  • Platformization is validated as fragmented systems cannot operate at machine speed.
  • Palo Alto Networks is the first certified commercial Mythos partner and has had about 2,000 AI defense conversations.
  • Agent security is an emerging need, but customers lack full kill-switch readiness.
Ideas
Jim Cramer Host, Mad Money 0:21
Beat and strong guidance could resume rally.
Arora argues Palo Alto Networks is positioned to feast alongside AI rather than be displaced; Q4 net new platforms doubled sequentially to about 220, platformization is proving to be the right strategy, and Palo Alto's AI-first products, Chronosphere acquisition, and status as first certified commercial Mythos partner are driving customer conversations and long-term growth.
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Nikesh Arora CEO, Palo Alto Networks 1:24
AI weaponization drives cybersecurity modernization supercycle.
Arora argues AI weaponization by bad actors is creating a cybersecurity modernization supercycle: roughly $1 trillion of legacy security infrastructure deployed over the past 7-10 years must be rethought for machine-speed attacks, and $5 trillion of AI data-center capex over the next five years will require a net new security stack, benefiting large cybersecurity platform providers.
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