What does this roundup cover?
We read the six vendors' own pages. This post lists the dated items we found, in date order, and then the product items that carried no date in the text we read. It covers announcements from September 2025 to July 2026. It is not a full news log: vendors publish far more than the pages we read, and we list only what we can cite.
September 2025
Cato's newsroom carries an item dated 7 September 2025 summarising a Bloomberg report that Cato "has agreed to acquire AI startup Aim Security, marking the firm's first acquisition", to expand into AI security. The deal terms are not stated in the item.
Source: Cato news: Bloomberg: Cato Networks to Buy Aim Security
Cato's AI security pages, describe controls for AI users, applications and agents.
Source: Cato AI security
May 2026
Cato's July press release quotes a Gartner forecast analysis dated 15 May 2026: "By 2029, 60% of large organizations with expiring SASE contracts will consolidate to a single, AI-native SASE platform". We quote it as Cato quotes it, with Gartner's attribution; we have not read the forecast itself.
Source: Cato news: Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms
June 2026
On 1 June 2026, Cato's blog described an AI agent that drafts vulnerability protections.
Cato's blog describes an AI-agent pilot in which signature generation took as little as 45 minutes, with researcher review before deployment.
The post adds that Cato researchers are already using the workflow.
Cato's Rapid CVE Mitigation page separately publishes a Detect to Protect log, with most 2026 entries at 1 or 2 days.
Source: Cato Rapid CVE Mitigation
July 2026
Cato's press release of 31 July 2026 states it was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms for the third consecutive year, citing the report of 28 July 2026.
Source: Cato news: Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms
Zscaler and Netskope state Leader placements in the 2026 reports for SASE and SSE on their own pages, and Fortinet describes itself as a Challenger in the 2026 SASE Platforms report. Those pages did not carry a date in the text we read.
Source: Zscaler SASE
Source: Netskope: 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant reports for SASE Platforms and SSE
Source: Fortinet FortiSASE
Which items carry no date?
Several product items on the pages we read had no date in the text. Palo Alto Networks lists Prisma AIRS modules for AI agents, apps and models, including Agent Identity Security and AI Runtime Security.
Source: Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS
Zscaler's AI security page lists Endpoint AI Security among its latest announcements and an AI Gateway with MCP and A2A brokers.
Source: Zscaler AI security
Netskope's NewEdge page announces NewEdge AI Fast Path.
Source: Netskope NewEdge
Netskope lists an AI product family that includes an Agentic Broker for MCP traffic.
Source: Netskope AI products
Fortinet describes FortiAIGate for AI app and agent traffic.
Source: Fortinet FortiAIGate
Cisco describes agent security on Secure Access and lists Cisco AI Defense.
Source: Cisco Secure Access
What are the themes?
Three themes stand out. First, AI security has moved into the SASE pitch: every vendor in our set now lists controls for AI tools, and four name controls for MCP, the protocol AI agents use to reach tools. Second, agents themselves are a new class of user, with vendors describing discovery, identity and runtime controls for them. Third, consolidation: the Gartner forecast quoted by Cato points to large organizations moving to a single platform when contracts expire.
What did we not find?
We found no published SASE price list from any of the six. We found no dated product release notes on the overview pages we read; those usually sit in documentation portals we did not open. We did not read the analyst reports themselves.
How should you use a roundup like this?
Use it to set questions for vendor meetings, not to judge platforms. A new product name tells you where a vendor is investing; it does not tell you whether the feature is generally available, which regions run it, or how it is licensed. Ask for the release date, availability and licensing of anything you plan to rely on.
The short version
From September 2025 to July 2026, the dated items on these pages point to AI security, agent controls and platform consolidation. Read each item as the vendor's own statement and confirm availability before planning around it.