Presidio is proud to announce that it has been named the Palo Alto Networks 2026 North America Cortex Partner of the Year, reflecting Presidio’s work helping organizations modernize security operations and strengthen cyber resilience.
The annual Palo Alto Networks Partner Awards recognize an elite group of partners demonstrating exceptional performance, deep expertise and a strong commitment to securing joint customers. The North America Cortex Partner of the Year award, in particular, recognizes Presidio’s excellence in deploying the Cortex platform – Palo Alto Networks’ autonomous platform for the modern Security Operations Center (SOC) – to support customers in detecting and preventing cyber threats.
As a Palo Alto Networks Diamond Innovator Partner, Presidio brings deep technical expertise across the Palo Alto Networks portfolio, including security operations, network security, cloud security and SASE. Through Cortex, Presidio provides end-to-end support to help customers modernize security operations with an AI-driven approach designed to improve threat detection and response while reducing operational complexity.
“As organizations navigate unprecedented technological transformation, partners are more critical than ever before in helping your customers modernize by adopting AI-powered platform security,” said Anar Desai, North America Channel Sales at Palo Alto Networks. “We are proud to honor Presidio as our 2026 North America Cortex Partner of the Year winner for their exceptional commitment to solving complex security challenges and driving real outcomes for our joint customers.”
“This recognition reflects the depth of our work with Palo Alto Networks, and more importantly, the outcomes our teams are helping customers achieve,” said INSERT RELEVANT PRESIDIO SPOKESPERSON. “With more than 60 technical certifications across our Palo Alto Networks practice, Presidio has built the expertise to help customers evolve beyond fragmented security tools toward more integrated operations. Cortex gives security teams an opportunity to reduce complexity and automate more of the work that consumes analysts’ time, so they can focus their attention where it has the greatest impact.”
Palo Alto Networks 2026 Award recipients were evaluated through a data-driven selection process assessing key performance indicators, including:
- Performance: Overall bookings growth, net-new customer acquisition and partner-initiated deal
- Strategic Engagement: Success in expanding customer footprints, generating high-value pipeline and leading digital security transformations.
To learn more about how Presidio and Palo Alto Networks team up to deliver integrated security outcomes, visit our partner page here.
