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threat prevention

What Are Unknown Cyber Threats? (And Are They Really Unknown?)

Most traditional security products are built to act based on known threats. The moment they see something that is known to be malicious, they block it. To get past security products that successfully block known threats, attackers are forced to create something that is previously unknown. How do they do it, and what can we do to prevent both known and unknown threats?

Security Platform

Dec 01, 2016

By Karin Shopen

Palo Alto Networks

Products and Services

Partners

Customer Spotlight, Real Estate, Retail, Security Platform

Customer Spotlight: Delta Holding Prevents Ransomware by Upgrading Security...

Delta Holding is a Belgrade-based organization made up of three distinct companies running autonomously while under central direction from the holding...

Oct 20, 2016

By Leiann Bonnet

Events, News of the Week

Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – August 13, 2016

Looking to catch up on the top Palo Alto Networks news from the past week? We’ve rounded it up here for you.

Aug 13, 2016

By Anna Lough

Events, Government

Palo Alto Networks Federal Forum Brings Together Top Government Leaders for...

Nearly 400 people attended Palo Alto Networks Federal Forum last Thursday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., just a stone’s throw from the iconic dome of the U.S. Capitol. The eve...

Jul 19, 2016

By Jennifer Martinez and Sean Morgan

Announcement, Cybersecurity, Threat Advisories - Advisories, Threat Prevention, Unit 42

Palo Alto Networks Addresses Bash Vulnerability Shellshock: Mitigation for ...

Around 6:00 am PST on September 24, the details of a vulnerability in the widely used Bourne Again Shell (Bash) were disclosed by multiple Linux vendo...

Sep 25, 2014

By Ryan Olson

Cybersecurity

Best Practices for Defending Against APTs

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) have changed the world of enterprise security and how networks and organizations are attacked. In a new Palo Alto Networks eBook, Cybersecurity for Dummies, we explore:

Apr 30, 2014

By Chad Berndtson

News of the Week, Predictions

Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – December 6, 2013

Here’s a recap of the top Palo Alto Networks news and happenings from this past week. Come back and visit us every Friday to learn all the latest! (more…)

Dec 06, 2013

By Chad Berndtson

Malware, Reports, Threat Prevention

Modern Malware Review: FTP Surprises

Last week, we announced our first Modern Malware Review, where Wade Williamson and other Palo Alto Networks experts had the opportunity to analyze 3 months of data from WildFire, including data from more than 1,000 real networks and more th...

Apr 03, 2013

By Rene Bonvanie

Threat Advisory/Analysis, Threat Prevention

Introducing the Modern Malware Review

One of the core concepts behind WildFire is the ability to provide better protections against malware through the sharing of data across many networks. In most cases, this sharing is done automatically – new malware (or a new malware varian...

Mar 25, 2013

By Palo Alto Networks

Threat Advisory/Analysis, Threat Prevention

Monitoring the Unknown

The recent New York Times attack, just like many of the other high-profile attacks over the past couple of years, demonstrated the evolution towards multi-vector, sophisticated attacks. If you haven’t enabled WildFire on your Palo Alto Netw...

Feb 14, 2013

By Palo Alto Networks

Threat Advisories - Advisories, Threat Advisory/Analysis

Emergency Threat Content Release

Today Palo Alto Networks has released an emergency content release (version 349) that addresses critical new vulnerabilities in Java JRE as well as Adobe Reader. Exploits of the Java vulnerabilities have been observed in the wild in exploit...

Jan 11, 2013

By Palo Alto Networks

Uncategorized

Keeping Up With Threats in the Virtualized Data Center

Its no secret that modern data centers are in the midst of an ongoing period of very dynamic evolution that has fundamentally changed the speed and efficiency of enterprise computing. As security professionals...

Nov 08, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Threat Prevention

Modern Malware and the Balance Between IDS and IPS

Information security is a job that requires the ability to recognize change and adapt, whether that be adapting to changing threats, regulatory and business requirements or advances in information technology it...

Sep 24, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Data Center, Uncategorized

Zero Trust Solution Brief

During the recent Data Center summit, two of the most common questions were how to get more information on the Forrester Research Zero Trust architecture and how to implement a Zero Trust network architecture with Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls.

Jul 18, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Data Center

Dealing with Unknown Traffic in Your Data Center

In previous posts , we have explored various data center security best practices in protecting the data center, and of course Palo Alto Network’s fundamental approach starts off with application visibility. Ap...

May 31, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Data Center

Recap from the Data Center Summit

We finally wrapped up our worldwide 10-city data center summit tour last week. I personally logged more than 40,000 miles, advanced my ability to work in a cramped airline seat, and sampled local cuisine from Singapore Chilli Crab to Australian King Prawns. But the high...

May 24, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Data Center

Data Center Summit - Learnings from the Road

Data Center Learnings from the RoadI just got back from our London Data Center Summit. We’ve had multiple data center events now in the U.S. and kicked off the international leg in London last week. At these da...

Mar 28, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Threat Advisory/Analysis

Recycled Botnets

Earlier in the year, Palo Alto Networks researchers used WildFire to track down a new variant of the Waledac/Kelihos botnet making the rounds through Europe. You can read the original post here. Since our initial analysis, this new botnet has continued to expand and evolve, and the team has continue...

Mar 19, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Threat Advisory/Analysis

Waledac Returns…and It's Serving More Than Spam

WildFire has recently detected a new variant of the Waledac botnet, along with a few new modifications. As a reminder, Waledac was a fairly large spamming botnet that was taken down in 2010 when Microsoft was a...

Feb 14, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Threat Advisory/Analysis

DNSChanger Rogue DNS Servers Taken Down

Great info from the Palo Alto Networks Product Management Team on the latest events surrounding DNSChanger.

Feb 06, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Uncategorized

Findings from WildFire

It has been a busy and exciting week at Palo Alto Networks where we have announced a brand new platform – the PA-200 a branch office appliance for the distributed enterprise , a new software update – PAN-OS 4.1 with more than 50 new features , and WildFire™, a completel...

Nov 08, 2011

By Palo Alto Networks

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