Prior to Palo Alto, Arora was President of SoftBank Group and previously a senior executive at Google. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential operators in enterprise technology and cybersecurity. At Palo Alto he has championed a 'platformization' thesis, consolidating point products into integrated suites across SASE, XDR and cloud security.
Expertise
- Platform strategy
- Cybersecurity consolidation
- SASE
- XDR
- Enterprise GTM
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