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App-ID

Communities Are the Lifeblood of Technology

Communities help us draw upon the collective insight to help build a greater awareness and understanding of just about any topic you can think of, including technology. According to the social media publication, Socialnomics, 78 percent of consumers trust peer recommendations, whereas only 14 percent trust advertisements. Communities where peer recommendations are easily shared are quite powerful....

Firewall

Jun 03, 2015

By Scott Ciccone

Palo Alto Networks

Products and Services

Partners

Cybersecurity, Malware

URL Filtering – Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks

Most companies have it deployed somewhere in their networks. It is most often thought of as a productivity tool to stop employees from wasting time with social media, shopping, porn, gambling, or many other sit...

Apr 28, 2015

By Joerg Sieber

Cybersecurity, Firewall

Modernizing Your Firewall Infrastructure Just Got Easier

On the heels of a very successful Ignite 2015 conference in Las Vegas, it’s clear that we have a rapidly growing opportunity across the security industry. That is, how to migrate to a modernized, Next-Generat...

Apr 15, 2015

By Scott Ciccone

Announcement, Cybersecurity, Firewall

Introducing Palo Alto Networks Migration Tool 3.0

With the increasing frequency of high profile security breaches, it’s clear that legacy security solutions are no longer capable of sufficiently protecting your business from aggressive cyber attacks. So if you...

Mar 20, 2015

By Scott Ciccone

Cybersecurity

March Madness Isn’t Just for Sports Fans

It happens every year: Millions across the country watch the NCAA Basketball tournament, fill out brackets, get into heated discussions. “March Madness” certainly earns its name!

Mar 18, 2015

By Joerg Sieber

Cybersecurity, Malware

Channeling World Cup Passion Into Smart Security

No sporting event elicits more passion and excitement than the World Cup, which tops even the Olympics in how it captures international interest and stirs up emotions among fans throughout the globe.

Jun 11, 2014

By Matt Keil

Cybersecurity, SCADA & ICS, Vertical

IEC 62443: The New Gold Standard for Network Segmentation in ICS and SCADA ...

In the past two months, I’ve attended various conferences, including the Smart Grid and SCADA Cybersecurity event in London, where experts discussed t...

Apr 16, 2014

By Palo Alto Networks

Application Advisory/Analysis, Application usage & risk report, Firewall

It’s That Time Again: New App-IDs for March Madness

Have you filled out your bracket yet? It’s once again that time of year when NCAA college basketball takes over the United States and the less sane among us worry about which Cinde...

Mar 19, 2014

By Matt Keil

Application Advisory/Analysis, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity

Lessons Learned from Baidu Collection of Japanese Information

In my previous blog entry on the Baidu practice of collecting information on Japanese users, I discussed the security risks associated with using Baid...

Feb 13, 2014

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, Firewall, SCADA & ICS

SCADA and your Data Center

Over the last few months, discussions on cyberweapons targeting critical infrastructure have increased. Most of the discussions have centered around attacks to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) such as SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acq...

Jun 19, 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

Uncategorized

Dropbox and iCloud: David vs Goliath?

Today I saw this article in Wired on Dropbox and found it very interesting based on the classic David vs Goliath comparison, where the small, innovative solution is pitted against the larger, more established solutions and vendors (Apple and their new iCloud offering)....

Dec 22, 2011

By Matt Keil

Uncategorized

What's APPening with FASP

A big shortcoming of traditional file transfer protocols such as FTP or HTTP has been the impact on throughput that results from TCP’s aggressive congestion control mechanism; especially when transferring large data files over wide area networks. Aspera's FASP is an app...

Dec 10, 2010

By Palo Alto Networks

Firewall

App-ID and the Rule of All

Recently, the discussion surrounding application visibility and control provided by next-generation firewalls has become deafening. Now, every stateful inspection based firewall vendor is calling themselves a next-generation firewall that can identify and control applic...

Sep 21, 2010

By Matt Keil

Uncategorized

What's APPening with Apple FaceTime

As the Antenna-gate controversy raged and finally subsided, the team here was busy enhancing our App-ID technology to identify Apple’s new video calling feature – FaceTime. It is essentially the audio-video chat functionality of Apple's iChat for desktops, but tied to t...

Aug 05, 2010

By Palo Alto Networks