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Not Just for CIOs – The Role of IT is Changing Too

Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks Blog – 14 May 2012: It’s a little late, but I wanted to comment on a great opinion piece by Nicholas Evans in Computerworld last week.… Read this post »

Palo Alto next-gen firewall stacks up well

Palo Alto NetworksNetwork World, 7 May 2012: Palo Alto Networks has bet everything on being a next-generation firewall. Without the next-generation hook, Palo Alto has little chance at breaking into the established world of firewalls, and they’ve done a good job at defining … Read this post »

Palo Alto Networks Video Broadcast: 60 minutes with Nir Zuk

Palo Alto NetworksComing to Grips with Consumerisation: How or why is consumerisation happening is almost irrelevant. All that really matters is how to deal with it. Today, it’s users rather than IT departments that are choosing the laptops, smart phones and tablets … Read this post »

What Do CIOs Need to Know about Network Security

Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Research Center – 19 April 2012: Many CIOs have expressed indifference to the network security discipline (in fact, to the security discipline in general), at least until there’s some sort of problem.  But why?… Read this post »

How resourceful are you – Turning a Next Gen firewall into a Next Gen Security Information collection tool?

Palo Alto NetworksWe here at Satisnet deal with a lot of SIEM vendors , the likes of Splunk, Q1 labs, Honeycomb etc. These vendors specialise in collecting data from various sources in your IT infrastructure, correlate them and convert into actionable information. … Read this post »

Getting a Handle on DDoS

Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks blog, 16 April 2012: Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks (DDoS) have become an increasingly common problems for enterprises of all sizes. DDoS campaigns are commonly used by hacktivists to embarrass or otherwise disrupt a target company … Read this post »

Honeycomb Palo Alto next generation APP!!

HoneycombHoneycomb’s “Next Generation App!” adds enormous value to your Palo Alto Firewall. As with any firewall they are not designed with the intention of storing the information for long periods of time, this is where Honeycomb’s Palo Alto LexApp becomes … Read this post »

Recycled Botnets

Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks Research Centre, 19 March 2012: Earlier in the year, Palo Alto Networks researchers used WildFire to track down a new variant of the Waledac/Kelihos botnet making the rounds through Europe. Since our initial analysis, this new botnet … Read this post »

The Future of Firewall Policies

Palo Alto NetworksHow IPv6 will change the way we configure firewall policies
Posted on Networkworld.com, 19th January 2012

The majority of today’s firewalls have only IPv4 source and destination address objects in their policies. However, many of our firewalls are IPv6-capable … Read this post »

Palo Alto Networks Finds 2011 Was The Year Enterprises Became Social

Palo Alto NetworksReadWriteWeb.com – 17 January 2012

A new report by Palo Alto Networks that analyzes data captured by their customers’ firewalls last year shows that 70 different social networks used by more than 1500 of their customers still only account for … Read this post »