While Palo Alto Networks benefits from an expanded market reach, Tata Communications will also pack, powered by the partnership, a dedicated managed security service offering that will provide lifecycle management of Palo Alto Networks’ solutions.

Partnership to counter AI with AI

One of the major focus areas of the partnership is to address the AI-induced attack surface, according to Dutta. “In the security market today, AI is becoming the most disruptive technology since cloud,” he said. “Alongside the transformation, there is an adversarial threat evolving with the technology. They are using sophisticated AI to move faster at a larger scale and across a new scope.”

“So together with this partnership, we are ready to help our customers secure the AI-first future, countering AI with AI,” he added. To that end, Palo Alto Network’s Precision AI will now power many of Tata Communications’ solutions, integrating its predictive analytics capabilities within the latter’s homegrown offerings.