Health care providers are an interesting situation with regard to network security.  Like many industries, they’re dealing with rapid technological change in the face of a variety of regulations – in the U.S. health care industry it’s HIPAA and HITECH, and PCI – focused on the portability, security and privacy of PHI and the security [...]

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 [...]

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 datasheet!” [...]