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Welcome to the Palo Alto Networks Newsletter for Federal Government Agencies! This newsletter will provide quarterly updates pertinent to IT professionals concerned with application visibility and control, threat mitigation and general security matters. To learn more about Palo Alto Networks and its line of innovative, award-winning next generation firewalls, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks to Sponsor and Present at GFIRST5
Palo Alto Networks will sponsor and exhibit at the 5th Annual GFIRST National Conference taking place in Atlanta, GA, from August 23 – 28. This year’s event will focus on the five pillars of security: threat, vulnerability, attack & detection, mitigation and reflection. Please visit us in booth #204.
Also, Palo Alto Networks’ Vice President of Product Management, Lee Klarich, will present on Friday, August 28th, at 9:30am in the Threat track. The focus of the presentation will be identifying the defending against the new generation of application threats. We hope you will join us for the presentation.
In the News: Application Control and Concerns over P2P and Social Networking
Federal Times: Navy, Marine Corps put Web 2.0 technology to work
CNN.com: Marines ban Twitter, Facebook, other sites
Washington Post: First Lady Safehouse Route, Govt. Mafia Trial Info, Leaded on P2P Networks
The New York Times: Pentagon Reviews Social Networking on Computers
ARS Technica: Congressman calls for P2P ban after sensitive data leaks
Palo Alto Networks Discovers Critical Microsoft Vulnerability
On August 11th, Palo Alto Networks announced that its Threat Research Team discovered one of the vulnerabilities rated as “critical” in Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday security bulletin. Microsoft credited Palo Alto Networks with finding a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2009-1929) in the Microsoft Terminal Services Client ActiveX Control that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a vulnerable system. This is the fourth Microsoft vulnerability discovered by the Palo Alto Networks Threat Research Team in the past six months.
Palo Alto Networks releases Next Generation Firewall for sub $5,000 small office market to join its 2GB and 10GB FW family
The Palo Alto Networks PA-500 is ideally suited for Internet gateway deployments within medium to large branch offices and medium sized organizations. The PA-500, which provides firewall throughput up to 250 Mbps, manages network traffic flows with high performance processing and dedicated memory for networking, security, threat prevention and management. A high speed backplane smoothes the pathway between processors and the separation of data and control plane ensures that management access is always available, irrespective of the traffic load.
Introducing PAN-OS 3.0: More Innovation for Application Control
Palo Alto Networks has just released a major new version of PAN-OS – the software that powers all of our next generation firewalls. PAN-OS 3.0 delivers a broad set of new capabilities, including an unprecedented level of application control in the firewall. Now, for the first time ever, you can apply powerful QoS traffic shaping capabilities to specific applications to optimize or constrain their performance on your network. In addition, PAN-OS 3.0 provides:
- SSL VPN support for remote user access control
- Ability to identify and control Citrix users on the network
- Addition of dynamic URL filtering database in the cloud
- Ability to write custom signatures for HTTP applications
- Significant increase in threat capacity
- Improvements in logging, reporting, and management
For more details on PAN-OS 3.0, download the updated Firewall Features Overview datasheet.
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Archived SANS Webcast: How a leading enterprise reduced the risk of Web 2.0 applications
Haworth Inc., a maker and designer of office furniture had a problem. While the $1.65 billion manufacturer wanted its employees to embrace social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others, the company wanted to minimize the security risks that go with them. In addition, Chad Clement, manager of information security at Haworth, realized how Web-based attacks were steadily rising – a user that visits an infected Web site could jeopardize applications and data from the PC back to the data center. Watch the webcast and find out how they solved the problem.
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