Channel Scoop – August 5, 2016

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Happy New Year! Fiscal year 2017 began on August 1 and we want to help you get a jumpstart on building your pipeline. Get started by visiting our new corporate campaigns page on the Partner Portal.

• We are kicking off the New Year with some great news. Palo Alto Networks CEO Mark McLaughlin was recognized by CRN as one of the industry’s Most Influential Executives in 2016. CRN recognized Mark because:

“No CEO in the security business has done a better job of fueling subscription and services sales growth for partners.”

• Your endpoint security offering just got a boost with the announcement of Traps v3.4. Legacy antivirus endpoints have been replaced. To learn more about Traps v3.4, visit our new Help Me Sell Traps page where you will find sales, technical and marketing content created just for partners.

• Not currently a partner of Palo Alto Networks? We have several partnering paths for you to consider. To learn more, give our new NextWave Partner Ecosystem overview a read.

• Did you hear about our NextWave Channel Partner Program evolution? Learn more about our NextWave partner program and see if it is right for your company/business by checking out our new summary sheet.

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