Palo Alto Networks Files $780,000 Q3 Lobbying Report

Palo Alto Networks' third-quarter filing arrives as the federal government operates under a continuing appropriations law that funds it through Dec. 11, while the two House appropriations bills it lobbies on—H.R. 9495 and H.R. 9310—sit on the Union Calendar. The company's disclosure also touches on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027, which has passed the House, and its Senate counterpart S. 4784, which is on the Senate Legislative Calendar.

The AI bills in the filing show a cybersecurity firm engaging with emerging rules for AI agents and frontier models. H.R. 10362, the Stop Rogue AI Act introduced on Sept. 14, has Palo Alto Networks named among five supporters in the sponsors' release, while H.R. 9925, the FRONTIER Act, remains at the introduced stage after being referred to committee in July 2026. A separate executive order from June 22 directs a federal transition to post-quantum cryptography standards.

The filing also names three in-house lobbyists, all former congressional staffers, and shows that five outside firms that filed in the second quarter have no third-quarter report, leaving the third-quarter client total $200,000 below the second-quarter total of $980,000.