Willow AI Governance Control Plane vs. Cortex Cloud

The AI Basecamp for the enterprise. Willow is the Agentic Access Platform for the enterprise, the AI Basecamp where every AI agent checks in before it touches a single system. Most companies are stitching together a gateway, a shadow AI scanner, a DLP bolt-on, and a manual approval process. Seven tools pretending to be one. Willow is the platform. One control plane for every AI agent, tool, MCP, skill, and plugin in the enterprise, covering identity, runtime guardrails, shadow AI detection, and audit, from the same place.

Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, the next version of Prisma Cloud, understands a unified security approach is essential for effectively addressing AppSec, CloudSec, and SecOps. Connecting cloud security and SOC workflows enables teams to achieve holistic visibility, trace risk across the lifecycle, and correlate real-time threat activity with development and runtime contexts. Cortex Cloud is a unified platform built on three core pillars: data integration, AI-driven intelligence, and automation.