Nikesh Arora2:14
Thank you, Hamza, and good afternoon everyone for joining us today for our earnings call. As you can see, our Q3 performance was exceptional as we delivered a record quarter. Our results surpassed every guided metric fueled by an acceleration in organic bookings momentum, the sustained tailwinds from our platformization strategy, and surging cybersecurity needs as AI transitions from experimental stages to enterprise-wide production. Within our core portfolio, we achieved significant traction in network security and SIEM, while Prisma SASE continues to establish itself as the fastest-scaling product in our history. Altogether, we delivered $8.1 billion in NGSAAR during the third quarter, representing 60% year-over-year growth. This is our most significant quarterly outperformance to date and surpassed our guidance. Our RPO reached $18.4 billion, up 36% compared to last year when adjusting for recent CyberArk and CloudGenix acquisitions, both of which are exceeding expectations in their first quarter post-close. Our organic NGSAAR and RPO rose 28% and 22% respectively. This is also materializing as AI fundamentally redefines the enterprise tech stack, elevating cybersecurity to a mission-critical priority for every organization. Much has been said about Minos over the last many months. Over the past quarter, frontier AI development reached a critical inflection point. We have entered the era of truly cyber-capable systems where models like Minos possess the autonomous capability to execute comprehensive attack campaigns from start to finish. This represents a fundamental paradigm shift for the cybersecurity industry. The most critical factor in this transition is speed. When weaponized by adversaries, these frontier models can identify and weaponize vulnerabilities in mere minutes, a process that previously required months of manual effort. Earlier this year, our Unit 42 researchers demonstrated the acceleration by simulating a comprehensive ransomware campaign from initial entry to data exploitation in just 25 minutes. In contrast, the typical enterprise still requires days to identify a breach. These existing latency gaps are already a concern, but the emergence of these latest models makes them completely unsustainable. We believe this is merely the opening act. As frontier AI development continues to accelerate, we anticipate a 3-6 month window before these systems evolve into more sophisticated hacking entities globally. Within a few years, we expect generative AI to reach a level of autonomous execution that is truly unprecedented, scanning environments, generating bespoke exploits, and orchestrating end-to-end campaigns at machine speed without human intervention. That is the trajectory of the modern threat landscape. However, this same technological leap provides a powerful defensive advantage. We validated this potential during the quarter. Leveraging our strategic partnerships with leading frontier labs, we utilized early access to their most advanced models to complete the equivalent of years' worth of fantastic in less than 3 weeks. This unique vantage point allowed us to introduce Unit 42 frontier AI defense, enabling our customers to fortify their environments against AI-driven attacks. Market reception has been exceptional. With north of 1,200 customers asking to meet us, we have already completed 800 meetings in the last 6 weeks to help our customers think through their cybersecurity future. These meetings are driving conversations across the platform. In fact, we're already seeing strong interest in our agentic endpoint security offering since the acquisition of Coy and have already generated interest for over 150 customers. This is critical for securing rights in the AI coating tools agents as they proliferate our endpoints. While identifying vulnerabilities is a critical first step, true mission-critical production is achieved at runtime. Real-time inline defense is the only way to shield even unpatched infrastructure as an attack sequence unfolds. This is where the cybersecurity battle will be won or lost. Countering the next generation of adversaries requires a comprehensive architectural vision that goes far beyond simple large language models. While the capabilities of these frontier systems are impressive, they're not a silver bullet for cybersecurity. We currently see two major structural challenges. First, the prevalence of false positives with error rates often reaching 25% forcing manual intervention that destroys the speed advantage of automation. Second, these models always fail at the last mile of complexity, leaving critical gaps in remediation and vulnerability management. In today's threat landscape, the most subtle 1% of novel attack techniques are what lead to the most devastating breaches. For every enterprise, the defensive bar must be perfect while the attacker only needs to succeed once. The probabilistic nature of even the most advanced systems leads to inaccuracies. In a mission-critical environment, the cost of a false positive is simply too high. One wrong enforcement decision can take down a global production network. Just as autonomous vehicles require constant real-time validation, an automated defense must be built on high-fidelity telemetry and battle-tested against every edge case to be mission ready. An AI model is only as effective as the data it can see. As frontier models become available to everyone, the real competitive advantage shifts from model to the data you have. That is why having sensors that sit in line with live traffic is so vital. They provide the telemetry and context needed to outmaneuver bad actors while serving as a critical enforcement point. The logic is simple. The more you integrate, the more you see, the more data you unify. The better the AI performs, the more you inspect the runtime, the faster you can stop an attack. Our global footprint now exceeds 125 million sensors across network, endpoint, and cloud, ingesting over 17 petabytes of daily telemetry. This scale creates a powerful flywheel. Every new sensor makes our entire platform more intelligent, which leads to more deployments, more data, and even stronger real-time protection. This reality is why platformization is the only sustainable answer. The legacy approach of query-based tools that wait for human reaction cannot keep up with machine-speed threats. We're transforming the industry by consolidating data onto a single platform, reducing breach response times from days to minutes through AI-driven pre-analysis. Point products that silo data and increase latency are becoming obsolete. As the battle moves to fighting AI with AI, we believe Palo Alto Networks is in pole position, and our Q3 results prove that momentum. As AI compresses attack timelines, only a platform that gets smarter with scale can respond fast enough. In the third quarter, we received 110 net new platformizations. This figure includes 20 from our CyberArk console integration. These strategic additions expand our reach into large addressable markets within data and observability. Given the fragmented nature of these sectors, they're perfectly aligned with our overarching platformization vision. We concluded Q3 with roughly 2,280 total platformized customers, bolstered by the inclusion of our latest acquisitions. These engagements represent deep architectural commitments rather than simple transactions. When organizations reach this integration milestone, they standardize their infrastructure on our platform, yielding superior long-term retention and expansion. This is reflected in 120% net retention and single-digit churn rates amongst this cohort. Moving forward, we remain confident in surpassing 4,000 platformizations by fiscal 2030, providing the primary momentum towards our $20 billion target for NGSAR. The scale and quality of our customer business this quarter reflect how strategic these platform commitments have become, and how customers are increasingly bringing us in to secure production AI deployments at scale. Let me share a few examples. In Q3, we surpassed $200 million in ARR with a leading frontier AI lab that relies on us for observability across its most demanding training and inference clusters. We expect that to continue to grow again next quarter as they complete their migration to Cortex XDR. One of our largest Q3 deals was an $80 million transaction with a leading power producer in the United States, an organization at the center of the AI infrastructure expansion. They selected our next-generation firewalls and also adopted SASE to secure a distributed workforce of over 25,000 employees. A global consulting leader signed a deal for over $20 million, selecting Prisma AI, our AI security platform, to secure its rapidly growing fleet of AI assets and agents that are running more than 2 trillion tokens per month on our platform. This was an existing platformized customer who spent several months working closely with us to secure this entirely new frontier. It was also a record Prisma AI win and speaks to our customers partnering with us for the AI transformation journey. As AI redefines the stack, these deals further validate our position as the cybersecurity partner of choice. That was particularly notable in our network security business, where we had our strongest Q3 in several years. Our largest business unit, network security, delivered its most robust third quarter performance in years. This momentum underscores the mission-critical role of real-time network traffic inspection as enterprise-wide AI initiatives continue to transition to production. This Q3, we saw strong growth in hardware, SASE, and software firewalls during the period. Following the earnings, we anticipate that AI will serve as a structural catalyst for deeper traffic inspection requirements. The initial phase of AI adoption was primarily conversational, but the shift towards agentic AI represents a fundamental change. Unlike simple chatbots, autonomous agents trigger a massive volume of secondary machine-to-machine interactions, consistently accessing tools and data to complete complex workflows. This creates a surge in nonstop, high-volume traffic that must be secured at runtime. This evolution directly translates into heightened demand for high-throughput hardware, expanded cloud-based software capacity, and the necessity for unified policy enforcement across the entire platform. Our Q3 results featured the strongest hardware performance in a decade, with next-generation firewall bookings rising nearly 40% year over year. This was supported by our latest Gen 5 appliances in early access and AI data center build-outs. We're seeing early adoption from a new class of buyers, including sovereign infrastructure providers and AI labs, representing a significant new market as deployments move beyond traditional hyperscalers. A key differentiator for our hardware portfolio remains the strength of our subscription attach, illustrating how customers are standardizing their security stack on our platform. Within our installed base, we currently average more than four subscriptions per device. Our innovation engine continues to expand this opportunity, and we now provide 11 advanced subscriptions, including our next-generation trust security, which utilizes Fiber Arc certificate management to address emerging compliance standards for shorter certificate lifespans. Palo Alto Networks remains the fastest growing provider in the SASE market. In Q3, SASE ARR reached $1.6 billion, growing 40% year over year as customers prioritize unified protection across hybrid workforces and AI applications. Competitive momentum remains high, with nearly 50 displacement wins totaling $200 million in contract value year to date. Secure browser also achieved a major milestone, scaling to 11 million licenses, a fourfold increase that cements its status as a critical control point in the AI enterprise. Furthermore, software firewalls remain a high growth pillar of our strategy. ARR was up 25% in Q3, accelerating as organizations expand their capacity to inspect growing traffic between cloud and AI workloads. As these environments scale, the requirements for high-fidelity telemetry only increase. The common architecture approach is also driving increased customer growth in Prisma SASE, which continues to be the fastest growing product in our history. Organizations are aggressively moving beyond the experimental phase, deploying AI agents and applications to production. This transition creates entirely new mission-critical security demands. We believe we are the first in the industry to embrace AI security platformization. Yes, AI security platformization, capable of securing and monitoring AI end-to-end. We have effectively doubled our capabilities in this space in just over 9 months. Our journey began with securing models and runtime defense. We then integrated identity security to govern agent access and observability to trace agent behavior across complex infrastructure. Most recently, we expanded agent endpoint security as AI tools proliferate across the edge. Our recent acquisition of Portshift marks yet another strategic milestone. As a leading AI gateway processing trillions of tokens monthly, Portshift provides a critical enforcement point to monitor every request, apply real-time policy to agent-to-agent interactions at scale. This relentless innovation has established Prisma SASE as our fastest growing product ever. We reached over 300 customers in Q3, tripling our Q2 count, and have clear visibility towards $100 million ARR within the next couple of quarters for a product that was not in the market 1 year ago. Ultimately, securing the AI enterprise generates a massive volume of runtime telemetry. Data is only actionable if processed at machine speed, which is a core mission of our Cortex platform. XSIAM remains our primary response to the emerging frontier model threat. As attack cycles compress to machine speed, organizations can no longer rely on legacy query-based architectures or manual dashboards. Effectively countering AI necessitates a defensive strategy powered by AI. Upon the introduction of XSIAM 42 months ago, we entered the sector as a disruptive innovator, engineering our platform from the ground up to redefine security operations. Today, our platform processes more than 17 petabytes of daily telemetry, a volume unmatched by any other pure-play security vendor. We ended the third quarter with more than $600 million in ARR, representing a 100% year-over-year increase across a growing base of 740 customers. The most significant metric, however, is the outcome. The majority of our customers are now responding to threats in under 10 minutes. This is a dramatic reduction from the days or weeks previously required, and serves as a blueprint for the modern SOC. In observability, our Q3 performance was well above our initial expectations. As AI initiatives generate a surge in telemetry, Cortex XDR is a purpose-built capability to scale alongside these workloads. Our observability ARR surpassed $300 million this quarter, nearly doubling since our acquisition announcement last autumn. Furthermore, 80% of our net new customer acquisitions this year adopted multiple products, reinforcing our platformization momentum. The world's leading AI natives, including two of the top five frontier labs, have adopted Cortex XDR, validating our ability to provide observability at AI scale. Beyond our early investments in markets where AI would drive a positive inflection, we also recognized early where AI would overhaul existing security capabilities. Consider posture management. Traditional periodic scanning is insufficient when attack timelines are measured in minutes. As a result, we proactively transitioned our cloud portfolio from static posture to real-time detection with Cortex XDR. We're making steady progress and anticipate most Prisma customers will be migrated to Cortex Cloud by the end of the fiscal year. Now, as these agents proliferate, every autonomous entity represents a new identity that must be managed, which leads directly to our progress with CyberArk. In our inaugural quarter post-close, CyberArk has surpassed our internal benchmarks as we move to execute our unified vision for identity security. Last month, we launched Ideara, our next-generation identity platform for the AI-driven enterprise. For years, the industry operated under the IAM fallacy, the belief that you only needed to secure a handful of privileged administrators. In the era of agentic AI, that distinction has vanished. Every identity, whether human, machine, or software agent, now possesses the potential to access a sensitive system at machine speed. Ideara addresses this shift by democratizing modern PAM controls across all users, extending protection to agentic identities, which represent the primary attack vectors of the future. Our execution in Q3 was strong. Joint go-to-market efforts have already initiated approximately 1,000 cross-organizational engagements. This has sustained CyberArk's growth trajectory while improving its profitability profile through our integration initiatives. Given our rapid progress, we're now 3 to 6 months ahead of our original timeline for converging CyberArk's profitability with our own, a milestone we expect to reach within the next 12 to 18 months. This acceleration reinforces our path towards a 40% free cash flow margin in fiscal 2028, which Deepak will talk about more. The events of the third quarter represent a watershed moment for cybersecurity and have elevated our category even higher on the CIO priority list. Mark my words, this all has increased the terminal value of the entire cybersecurity industry. We're identifying several structural catalysts for the AI cycle driving growth across our platform. First, AI creates a massive surge in traffic and connection points requiring real-time inspection as agents trigger hundreds of secondary actions. Network security becomes an indispensable foundation for SASE adoption. Second, countering machine-speed adversaries requires real-time automated defense. This is the core mission of XSIAM, consolidating data onto a single platform so AI can respond to threats in minutes rather than days. And third, in an environment populated by both humans and agents, identity serves as a primary defensive layer. When autonomous entities can execute actions independently, securing access to identity becomes mission critical. The convergence of these trends validates our platformization strategy. Managing fragmented data and siloed point products is no longer viable in an AI-driven landscape. A unified platform that gains intelligence with scale is the only path forward. While we're still in the early stages of this shift, we remain committed to innovating ahead of the threat landscape and earning our customers' trust every day. I will now turn the call over to Deepak to discuss our financial results in greater detail.