Articles for February 2009

Check Point’s Latest Innovation: A Licensing Scheme

February 25th, 2009

Check out “Check Point Revolutionizes Security with New Software Blade Architecture”. WTH? Are you kidding me? Do you think people are that dumb?

Another Sign That The Application Landscape has Changed

February 23rd, 2009

This NetworkWorld article talks about the new LotusLive suite of collaborative applications from IBM. The cool thing about this article is that it is taking LotusNotes, one of the original “enterprise applications” and making it available as a set of cloud-based applications. Even cooler is that it is IBM – known to be more conservative [...]

A WAF Does Not Make You PCI Compliant

February 17th, 2009

One of the most common questions that arises when PCI is discussed is whether or not Palo Alto Networks is a web application firewall (WAF) and can we address section 6.6 of the PCI DSS requirement. The short answer is no. The differences are pretty clear, so what is it that generates the question? It [...]

There is no such thing as a PCI Solution

February 13th, 2009

In his Dark Reading post, John Sawyer points out that PCI is not an end goal, but a process. I could not have said it any better. As part of the Palo Alto Network marketing team, I get countless requests by our sales team to describe our PCI solution story. “We need a PCI [...]

One plus One is Not Innovation

February 3rd, 2009

Check out Richard Stiennon’s blog entry on his Threat Chaos blog. I think very highly of Richard – he has never been afraid, even as a Gartner analyst, to say what he thinks even if some of Gartner’s customers did not like it.
But this time, Richard, I have to disagree with you. Putting a [...]