Palo Alto Networks added four modules to its Prisma Cloud security platform including identity-based microsegmentation from its $150 million Aporeto acquisition.

Other new Prisma Cloud features include data loss prevention, and identity and access management security.

Palo Alto Networks Inc. said today it’s adding four new cloud security modules to Prisma Cloud, a multicloud security offering that enables developers to block vulnerabilities during the application development and deployment process.

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Containers offer speed, performance, and portability, but do they actually contain? While they try their best, the shared kernel is a disturbing attack surface: a mere kernel vulnerability may allow containerized processes to escape and compromise the host. This issue prompted a new wave of sandboxing tools that use either unikernels, lightweight VMs or userspace-kernels to separate the host OS from the container's OS.

Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 threat hunting team discovered two critical Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud misconfigurations in a customer’s environment in less than a week that, if exploited by hackers, would have led to a data breach that cost the customers tens of millions of dollars.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a cloud in possession of an identity and access management (IAM) system, must be in want of security.

The cryptojacking malware variant builds on the TeamTNT group’s typical approach, with a few new — and sophisticated — extras.

A new malware variant dubbed Black-T developed by the hacker group TeamTnT targets exposed Docker daemon APIs to perform scanning and cryptojacking operations, according to researchers at Palo Alto Unit 42.

An investigation into the top 10,000 Alexa sites reveals that many of these popular were infected with cryptocurrency miners and credit card skimming scripts.

Palo Alto Networks announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure this week that will see the security vendor integrate its secure access service edge (SASE) offering with the cloud provider’s Active Directory (AD) identity and access management platform.

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Palo Alto is pulling back the curtain to reveal two new SD-WAN devices since the security supplier's $420 million CloudGenix acquisition.

The Prisma integration and root cause analysis in the Palo Alto SD-WAN could help it standout in a market packed with competitors. Palo Alto also launched two SD-WAN appliances.

Nikesh Arora, Palo Alto Networks CEO, joins ‘Closing Bell’ to discuss the success his company has seen amid the coronavirus pandemic, the decision behind acquiring Crypsis Group, and the types of hacking the company is seeing.

‘The appetite from our partner community to embed this into their portfolio has been through the roof. There’s a need for it in the market,’ says Palo Alto Networks global channel chief Karl Soderlund.

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Palo Alto upgrades the SD-WAN gear it bought via CloudGenix with machine learning and artificial intelligence to embrace cloud deployment

Palo Alto Networks’ CloudGenix SD-WAN offering gained a spate of updates including artificial intelligence operations (AIOps) capabilities, tighter integrations with its Prisma Access secure access service edge (SASE) platform, and two new SD-WAN appliances.

Palo Alto Networks today launched a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation SD-WAN, based on the platform it gained by acquiring CloudGenix earlier this year.

More and more devices are being connected to corporate networks - and in many cases, organisations don't even know they're there. But cyber criminals do.

This week’s show kicks off with Kevin and I discussing Nvidia’s $40 billion plan to buy ARM.

The strangest connected devices are showing up, and the threats they pose to security should not be overlooked.

Docker containers have been gaining popularity over the past few years as an effective way of packaging software applications.

A new Thanos ransomware strain is trying and failing to deliver the ransom note onto compromised systems by overwriting the computers' Windows master boot record (MBR).

It’s been quite a day in the tech world, with a bushel of S-1s being filed to go public.

Meanwhile, the cybersecurity firm posted better-than-expected Q4 results, thanks in part to work-from-home tailwinds.

The deal creates tremendous cross-sell potential for Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex XDR platform since clients are typically open to deploying products used during an incident response engagement on a larger scale.

Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora explained the networks company’s strategy in acquiring the incident response firm for $265 million.

It’s fair to say that the way enterprise security has been done in the past has not worked, is not working and will likely never work.