There’s a great article on SearchEnterpriseWAN about a Palo Alto Networks customer.  IDT spoke to SearchEnterpriseWAN about its experiences using next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks, and discussed some of the benefits and changes their team recognized in managing security across their enterprise.  IDT describes many of the usual benefits around application visibility and control [...]

Since the inaugural Application Usage and Risk Report (Spring Edition, 2008), browser-based file-sharing usage in terms of frequency has steadily increased to the point where it now exceeds that of peer-to-peer file sharing.

There is a somewhat erroneous assumption that the web provides anonymity – in particular when someone is posting a comment on an article. And then there is the old saying that knowledge is power. The challenge some people face is what to do with it.

A recent survey suggests that more than 50% of the companies are blocking social networking. I read that and asked myself do they really believe that? I ask because our analysis of application traffic on more than 200 companies around the world proves otherwise. We found 27 different social networking applications across 95% of the [...]

The Application and Threat Research Team has done a great job of provide insight into what the Mariposa threat as well as how to quickly analyze their networks to see if Mariposa is present via the WireShark plugin. Based on the applications that Mariposa uses to spread itself exactly how exposed are we? To gain [...]

As a follow up to last week’s post regarding Mariposa infection research, Yamata Li of the Palo Alto Networks Threat Research Team has developed a Wireshark plugin that will allow you to view obfuscated pcaps of traffic from a Mariposa infected client and actually decrypt them within Wireshark. The software is available to all as [...]

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 [...]

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/

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.

When asked who’s the best illusionist of all time, you’ll likely hear anything from Harry Houdini to David Copperfield to David Blane, but they don’t have anything on your IPS vendor.
I often hear the question, how big or how good is Palo Alto Networks’ vulnerability research team? If you look at the website or collateral [...]