Lee Klarich

Executive Vice President, Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer & Director, Palo Alto Networks

Search every verified Lee Klarich interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Lee Klarich, Executive Vice President, Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Director at Palo Alto Networks, delivered a keynote address at the company's March 2026 event on the future of AI enterprise security. During the presentation, Klarich discussed the challenges of securing AI adoption, stating that organizations "are not gonna be able to hold back the wave" of AI due to its benefits and that security teams "have to enable it." He also highlighted risks associated with "vibe coding," a practice where AI agents can write code that bypasses organizational controls, asking the audience whether they would deploy an application that had access to all data and could send that data elsewhere without visibility. The keynote unveiled the company's platform for the "Agentic AI era," including a roadmap for the Autonomous SOC and the launch of an agentic gateway to secure AI adoption. Klarich's remarks emphasized the need for visibility and security across AI components on endpoints, as well as the importance of managing agent identities and permissions separately from developer identities.