Palo Alto Networks — Ethics Grade B

Palo Alto Networks receives an overall ethics grade of B (74/100) on CancelCo's corporate accountability database. Sector: Social Media. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 60
• privacy: 70
• consumer: 85
• environment: 80
• humanRights: 75

Documented incidents (3)

• Gender Pay Settlement (medium, 2018) — Agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle claims by the Department of Labor that it discriminated against female, Black, and Hispanic employees in certain engineering roles.
• PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability (medium, 2019) — Critics highlighted a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its firewall software that could have allowed state actors to bypass security measures.
• Ethics in Lobbying (low, 2022) — Increased lobbying expenditures significantly to influence national cybersecurity standards, raising concerns about regulatory capture in the tech sector.

Documented good deeds

• Cybersecurity Canon — Maintains an open-source hall of fame for cybersecurity literature to promote education and ethical hacking practices.

Ethical alternatives

• CrowdStrike Holdings — Consistent high marks for transparency and fewer Labor Department disputes.