• Palo Alto Networks launched the Frontier AI Critical Defense Program to protect critical infrastructure from AI-driven exploits using network-level “virtual patches.”
• Program aims to close the gap between AI-speed vulnerability discovery and slower patch deployment in operational technology, healthcare, commercial software, open-source systems.
• Planned expansion of joint work with AI model providers, OT vendors, risk-sharing groups, research bodies, open-source initiatives to coordinate proactive defenses.
• Frontier Virtual Patching will deliver rapid network-layer protections while limiting exposure of sensitive vulnerability details to potential attackers.

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