posted by: Alfred on October 22, 2009 10:15 AM
filed in: Uncategorized
tagged: application control, mariposa, threats
Control Applications, Control Threats.
Over the past month, we’ve been pulled in by customers to analyze various “weird” behavior on the network. One of these instances happened a few weeks ago. A large Fortune 200 customer was reviewing application usage on the network using the Palo Alto Networks devices and discovered that there were a few devices in globally disparate locations sending 7 byte UDP packets consistently to a few IP addresses. When we analyzed the traffic and IP addresses it was clear that they were clients infected with a bot. We quickly found a sample, analyzed it and released a signature to detect the command and control communication. …Continue reading
posted by: Matt on October 20, 2009 7:09 PM
filed in: Firewall
tagged: application control, Firewall
Now More Than Ever.
Now more than ever, business and security teams need to align their business priorities. Case in point, highlighted by two recent articles on social networking use in the business world. The first article, published in eWeek UK, states that most CIOs are blocking (or trying to block) social networking sites.
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/cios-frown-on-social-networking-at-work-2007 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014107o-114626b,00.htm https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/home.aspx http://www.aiim.org/ …Continue reading
Is UTM an Enterprise Product?
Recently, Greg Young of Gartner blogged about Enterprise UTM’s, comparing them to Unicorns and Pixies. I could not have agreed more with everything that Greg has wrote in his blog and would like to focus on his last bullet point. Greg discusses the “Best of breed requirements” that keep enterprises from buying UTM’s. …Continue reading
