we value your difference.

We have established and will continue to foster environments in which our employees feel safe to be their authentic selves. We currently have 11 employee network groups (ENG's), including our two newest ENG's, Kehila (Jewish ENG) and Aloha 'Aina (Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander ENG).

Our ENGs foster a diverse, inclusive workplace aligned with our company values. More than 27% of our global workforce were members of at least one ENG in fiscal 2022. ENGs are employee initiated and driven, allowing us to amplify our I&D efforts through a grass-roots approach and passion-led commitment across the company. Our executives host quarterly listening sessions to actively understand and support ENG needs and priorities through transparent and open communication. It ensures that our diverse communities have a place to build familiarity, and bonds of representation that allows environments that encourage psychological safety.

Palo Alto Networks strives to be the best place to work, for all employees. We’ve enabled our Allyship initiative to help build and further strengthen our understanding of one another, through insightful workshops and personal storytelling. Allyship is fundamental in how we work together, and how we can each bring our best selves to work.

What Palo Alto Networks continues to do well is listen. We’ve taken swift action based on the needs of our ENGs, our employees, and our extended communities to understand what will and can make us better. Comparably recognized our CEO as #15 out of 100 large companies on the Best CEOs for Diversity list, as well as making the list for Best CEOs for Women and Best Companies for Diversity. We also listened to inputs from employees who identify as LGBTQ+, veterans and persons with disabilities and as a result of action taken have earned recognition from the Human Rights Campaign, Disability:IN and Military Friendly. We know that keeping our ears open to our communities benefits us, and allows us to make pivots where needed. We will continue listening to each other, learning from one another and making our worlds safer while removing barriers, and taking our needs as a company and as a community seriously.

We aim to be the inclusion leader in cybersecurity. We know that advancing inclusion and diversity requires commitment and action at all levels of the organization. Through FLEXLearn, we’ve enabled several learning modules to support our employees and leaders in growing their leadership skills, and leveraging our mentorship and executive sponsorship programs.

We are committed to uplifting and educating future generations that will continue to diversify the cybersecurity industry. Our pledge is to champion diversity through strategic partnerships that create pathways into technology and cybersecurity for anyone, regardless of background, so that they can explore their curiosity earlier in their education and in easily accessible ways. Through our work with cybersecurity education programs, strategic partnerships and recruiting channels focused on attracting candidates with diverse backgrounds, abilities and expertise, we are able to build an industry ecosystem that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion. We have dedicated resources to focus solely on building partnerships that best suit our corporate strategy, and align to our initiatives across the board. To date, we have maintained partnerships with NSBE, AfroTech, Techqueria, DisabilityIN, SHPE, NCWIT, VetsInTech and have gained new partnerships with Sistas in Sales which focuses on bringing diverse women into the tech and sales industry.