A bot is a piece of malware that infects a computer to carry out commands under the remote control of the attacker.

To deliver cloud-based services to the government, it’s important to have an understanding of government-enacted Federal IT compliance standards

To keep network and security professionals’ security acumen fresh, Palo Alto Networks and Cyber Test Systems present a professional mobile Cyber Range suite.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) 800-190 provides guidance on securing application containers and related ecosystem components. While it thoroughly describes the security risks and associated countermeasures for protecting containerized apps, it leaves organizations to fend for themselves on the tactical front. Twistlock is a purpose-built software suite for securing cloud-native workloads. From the beginning, we’ve been developing technology to address the types of risks NIST SP 800-190 describes.

Operation Lotus Blossom describes a persistent cyber espionage campaign against government and military organizations in Southeast Asia. The report exposes the targets, tools, and attack techniques, and provides full details on the Lotus Blossom campaign, including all indicators of compromise. Unit 42 discovered these attacks using the Palo Alto Networks AutoFocus^™ platform, which enables analysts to correlate the results of the hundreds of millions of reports generated by WildFire^™.

This document provides a high-level reference architecture for OT and IoT device security in Industrial Control Systems (ICS) using Palo Alto Networks’ Next-generation firewalls, the Cortex Data Lake, and IoT Security Service.