Palo Alto Networks News of the Week – February 7

Did everyone have a good first week of February? Check out all of the top Palo Alto Networks news from this past week.

Unit 42 explains how best to protect your network from the I2P communication used by Dyre and CryptoWall 3.0.

Yiftach Keshet details how Palo Alto Networks Traps protects enterprises from zero-day CVE-2015-0313.

Unit 42 analyzes Filmkan, a mysterious Turkish botnet that grows through Facebook and has potentially infected over 100,000 users.

The enterprise security event of the year is happening this March 30 – April 1 in Las Vegas – will you be there? Check out the latest additions to the conference program and find out how to solve your toughest security challenges at Ignite.

In partnership with MeriTalk, we developed a “health check” for U.S. federal government agencies & surveyed 300 U.S. Federal IT managers to understand security issues that are top of mind in their data center plans. Check out the results, and remember, the threats to federal systems will only continue to grow, so don’t let security be a roadblock to your government data center modernization.

Are you a NextWave partner? Be sure to check out this VideoWave update on global channel enablement from Ron Myers, VP of Worldwide Channels.

Nir Zuk, Founder & CTO, appeared on Risky Business to chat about disrupting the endpoint security market the same way Palo Alto Networks disrupted the firewall market in our early days.

Arnaud Kopp, CTO for Southern Europe, talks cybersecurity trends and how to employ a prevention-based approach to protecting critical interests in enterprise and government at the International Forum on Cybersecurity in Lille, France.

How well do you know your zero days and APTs? Take the challenge where knowledge of the worst threats out there could win you great prizes.

Join us this February for one of our live webinars to learn about Traps, the breakthrough technology that redefines endpoint security as we know it.

Here are upcoming events around the world that you should know about:

Palo Alto Networks integrated Cyber Security approach

• When: February 10, 2015 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM WET
• Where: Naarden

Advanced Endpoint Protection, A Traps Tutorial

• When: February 11, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:00 AM PST
• Where: Online

Avoiding Doom in the Data Center

• When: February 11, 2015 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
• Where: Online

Next-Generation Firewall Performance Testing

• When: February 11, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST
• Where: Online

Palo Alto Networks: Live Demo

• When: February 11, 2015 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST
• Where: Online

Transform Network Security With the Software Defined Data Center

• When: February 11, 2015 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CET
• Where: Online

Demo - näe mitä seuraavan sukupolven tietoturva ta [Finnish]

• When: February 12, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EET
• Where: Online

Opplev styrken i Next-Generation Brannmurer [Norwegian]

• When: February 12, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CET
• Where: Online

Ultimate Test Drive – 2015 [French]

• When: February 12, 2015 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM CET
• Where: Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

2月13日(金)製品体感ｾﾐﾅｰ(大阪) [Japanese]

• When: February 13, 2015 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM GMT+9:00
• Where: 大阪市北区

Advanced Endpoint Protection - We're Changing the Game!

• When: February 17, 2015 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST
• Where: Online

2月18日(水)製品導入・運用支援ﾄﾚｰﾆﾝｸﾞ [Japanese]

• When: February 18, 2015 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM GMT+9:00
• Where: 千代田区

Advanced Endpoint Protection, A Traps Tutorial

• When: February 18, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:00 AM PST
• Where: Online

Moving Beyond Proxies

• When: February 18, 2015 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
• Where: Online

Palo Alto Networks: Live Demo

• When: February 18, 2015 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PST
• Where: Online

Threat Prevention Ultimate Test Drive

• When: February 18, 2015 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM GMT
• Where: London

Join the Revolution: Advanced Endpoint Protection [Italian]

• When: February 19, 2015 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM CET
• Where: Roma

Next-Generation Firewall Live Demo Webinar [Dutch]

• When: February 19, 2015 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CET
• Where: Online

Ultimate Test Drive – 2015 [French]

• When: February 19, 2015 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM CET
• Where: Issy-les-Moulineaux, France

You Can Have It All!

• When: February 19, 2015 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM EST
• Where: Ottawa, ON

2月20日(金)製品実感ﾄﾚｰﾆﾝｸﾞ [Japanese]

• When: February 20, 2015 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM GMT+9:00
• Where: 千代田区