In this edition of the Firewall 2.0 newsletter:
Palo Alto Networks Selected As Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year
Frost and Sullivan has recently awarded Palo Alto Networks "2010 Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award" for its accomplishments in the firewall market. "Palo Alto Networks' family of next-generation firewalls has helped propel the company's growth since its founding in 2005 and the company has some of the leading and most influential industry leaders at the helm," said Chris Rodriguez, research analyst for Frost & Sullivan. "As a result, Palo Alto Networks has boasted extremely high annual growth rates, highlighted by the company recently celebrating its 1,500th enterprise customer. Palo Alto Networks is fully anticipated to continue its meteoric rise in the firewall market."
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Palo Alto Networks Introduces GlobalProtect for Remote Enterprise Security
Palo Alto Networks announces GlobalProtect™, a solution that helps enterprises secure remote endpoints with faster performance and easier management. Utilizing a unique approach, the solution extends the same visibility and control of applications, users, and content that Palo Alto Networks customers typically enjoy inside the enterprise network to endpoints outside the network.
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Top 10 Social Networking Threats According to Network World
Top 10 social network threats/risks that enterprises must consider when developing policies:
- Phishing Bait: Remember FBAction? The e-mail that lured you to sign into Facebook, hoping you don't pick up on the fbaction.net URL in the browser?
- Shortened Links: People use URL shortening services (e.g., bit.ly and tinyurl) to fit long URLs into tight spaces.
- Impersonation: The social network accounts of several prominent individuals with thousands of followers have been hacked (most recently, a handful of British politicians).
Read about all 10 threats here.
Join the TechDebate on Network World to further discuss this topic.
Partner Spotlight: Cadre Information Security
In this edition of the newsletter, we would like to highlight Cadre Information Security for their dedication to and support of Palo Alto Networks. Cadre Information Security has been a reseller of Palo Alto Networks since 2007, the same year we began shipping our next-generation firewalls. Since then, Cadre has been a successful and committed partner providing an excellent service to our customers. Most recent success was Cadre's participation in "60 Minutes with Security Visionary Nir Zuk" event. We would like to thank Cadre for inviting the most people to this event! If you missed this live event, it is now available on-demand.
For more information on Cadre Information Security, please visit their website.
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Missed Your Chance to Spend "60 Minutes with Security Visionary Nir Zuk"?
No problem – the live video interview with Nir Zuk, Founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks, has been recorded and is now available on-demand. In this video, Nir Zuk is interviewed by security analyst Mark Bouchard, CISSP, to provide viewers with his opinion on the direction of the network security market. Nir Zuk has been delivering innovation to the information security industry for the last 20+ years. He was one of the developers of stateful inspection firewall technology, worked on the world's first intrusion prevention and detection appliance and is now pioneering next-generation firewalls. Watch Nir speak about the state of the information security industry and answer some of the toughest questions from the audience.
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NBC Press Here: "Social Networking at Work" CEO Roundtable
Watch the recent episode of NBC's Press Here featuring Lane Bess, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, in a CEO roundtable discussion of today's social networking trends in the workplace. The roundtable participants answer questions such as:
- Should your employees be allowed to use Facebook at work? Should they be encouraged to?
- Do companies need to be more clear to employees about their social networking policy?
- What are the threats associated with allowing your employees to use social networking in the workplace? How can they be mitigated?
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Continued Leadership in Enterprise 2.0 Enablement: "Read-Only" Facebook
Companies can now implement "read-only" Facebook policies in the workplace with next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks, the network security company. New, finer-grained control over who uses the popular social networking application and for what purposes means companies can enable Facebook for employees that need it for their jobs, while limiting its functionality for other workers who use it primarily for personal reasons.
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New Research from Forrester and IANS on the Impact of Enterprise 2.0
Forrester Research recently conducted a survey of IT decision makers from large enterprises in North America and Europe to gauge their attitudes toward Enterprise 2.0 applications and understand their policies and procedures for controlling their usage. The findings from this recent survey are revealed in this on-demand webcast. Viewers will learn:
- What types of Enterprise 2.0 applications are being adopted and what security risks they pose.
- What policies organizations have in place that govern appropriate use of these applications.
- Which control mechanisms IT departments have today vs. what they need.
- How ineffective first generation security solutions are.
- What steps an organization can take for the safe enablement of Enterprise 2.0 applications.
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IANS, a leading research company focused on information security, has just published their risk assessment of adopting Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. Among their key findings are:
- Deployment of Web 2.0 technologies within enterprises for business purposes is among the most significant business and technical developments in 2010.
- Web 2.0 creates severe tensions between the business need to increase information liquidity and the need to protect and restrict the flow of private and sensitive information. Numerous risks are emerging that organizational leaders are only now beginning to understand.
- IANS research clients are initially struggling with the question of whether to block use of these technologies or not, based primarily on the culture and policies of the organization.
- Proxies, URL filtering, and content filtering create frustration and dissatisfaction for security teams due to insufficient granularity and constricted visibility. Newer breed firewalls are being rapidly adopted to maintain security and manage overall risk posture.
Download the full report.
New Solution Guides for Enterprise 2.0 Applications
Adoption of Enterprise 2.0 applications is skyrocketing, but they are often used without consent of IT departments. These applications can deliver significant business value but can also introduce substantial risks. In order to set appropriate policies around these applications you must first understand and evaluate business benefits and risks associated with each one of the applications.
Our solution notes are practical guides for how to enable productive use of Enterprise 2.0 applications. By reading them, you will learn:
- The details of how the application works and what the most common uses are
- How to apply policy control to manage usage and block threats
- Business benefits of safely enabling these applications
Learn how to control:
Meet with Palo Alto Networks at an Upcoming Industry Event
- Network World IT Roadmap Conference: July 14, Philadelphia, PA & October 19, Washington, DC
- ICCS 2010, International Conference on Cyber Security: August 2-5, New York City, NY
- Arcsight Protect '10: September 19-22, Washington, DC
- IANS New England Information Security Forum: September 28-29, Boston, MA
- Les Assises de la Sécurité Conference: October 6-9, Monaco
- Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2010: October 17-21, Orlando, FL
- It-sa Security Expo: October 19-21, Nürnberg, Germany
- SocialTech 2010: October 29, San Jose, CA
- InfoSec Netherlands: November 3-4, Utrecht, Netherlands
Want a Quick Introduction to Palo Alto Networks?
No problem. We have three very simple, very effective ways to learn more about us.
- If you're in a hurry, and just want to understand why our next generation firewalls are the most innovative security solutions in the industry, then check out our 3-minute flash video. Just click here and turn up your volume!
- If you want to go beyond the introduction and learn more about specific features and functions – and see a live demo of the firewall – then join us for one of our weekly 30-minute webinars. The demonstration is followed by a Q&A session to answer any specific questions you have. To join us at your convenience, please register here.
- Not available to join the weekly live webinar? We have an on-demand product overview that highlights the application visibility and policy control elements of our product.
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks was founded in 2005 with a mission to create a family of next generation firewalls that allow IT organizations to regain visibility and control of Internet applications and traffic on their network. The firewalls were designed to meet five important requirements:
- Visibility into all applications, regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic – or even SSL encryption
- Identification of application users by name – not just by IP address
- Granular control of application access, by user or groups of users
- Real-time threat prevention, content control, and URL filtering
- In-line throughput up to 10gbps, with no performance degradation
To address these requirements, Palo Alto Networks firewalls combine innovative new identification technologies, such as App-ID, User-ID, and Content-ID, all leveraging an underlying Single-Pass Parallel Processing Architecture (SP3), which ensures maximum throughput with minimum latency.
For more information, visit us at www.paloaltonetworks.com.
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