Feature Spotlight: Auditing & Hardening Palo Alto Networks Firewalls using Nessus

TenableTenable Nessus ProfessionalFeed customers can now audit the configuration of PAN-OS™-based Palo Alto Networks firewalls. Nessus can audit the firewall operational configurations and allow Palo Alto Networks firewall reports to be embedded into Nessus reports. Mehul Revankar, Tenable’s lead compliance … Read this post »

Adding Value to Your Palo Alto Networks Firewall Data

Palo Alto Networkshoneycomb_logoThis post walks through the steps to integrate Palo Alto Networks firewall data into Honeycomb Lexicon. Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls provide a vast wealth of protection and visibility right through the network stack. Integrating Palo Alto Networks firewall data … Read this post »

On Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls

Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks – 12 February 2013: Palo Alto Networks CMO, Rene Bonvanie discusses Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls and a thank you to their customers.… Read this post »

Do you have the power to safely enable applications for your Business and Users?

Palo Alto NetworksOne of the  tools for safe enablement of applications are Next Generation Firewalls. But not all Next Generation Firewalls are built the same. An easy test to see if your Next Generation firewall is doing what it is supposed to be … Read this post »

Students using proxies or encrypted tunnels like Tor, Freegate etc. to bypass your filtering solution? Palo Alto Networks provides an answer!

Palo Alto NetworksI had some time the other day to mess around with Tor (Not TOR, the purists on Tor’s website insist). Tor was originally designed as a third-generation implementation of the Onion routing project of the US Naval Research Laboratory.… Read this post »

Are Your Security Tools Working

Q1 LabsIf you have Next Generation Firewalls, Virus and vulnerability scanners, good access polices and keep your systems patched your network security should be great but do you know for sure?… Read this post »

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall Achieves ICSA Labs Certification for Network Firewalls

Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks Press Release – 7 August 2012: PA-500, PA-2000 Series and PA-4000 Series Firewalls Pass Thorough Evaluation. Palo Alto Networks™, the network security company, have announced its next-generation firewall PA-500, PA-2000 and PA-4000 series solutions have been … Read this post »

Why is Tufin so simple?

With the ever evolving threats facing our Networks, security needs to be tighter, smarted and more efficient than ever. That is why Tufin has made there stand at the fore-front with SecureTrack and SecureChange.… Read this post »

Protecting our future

Palo Alto NetworksStudents today aggressively embrace new technology and applications for both study and personal use, this can cause many challenges in the modern educational establishment. Streaming audio and video, instant messaging and peer-to-peer file sharing are just a few of the … Read this post »

Are Firewalls Dead? Next Generation Firewalls – Evolution of firewalls?

Palo Alto NetworksI was listening to the podcast on Networkworld.comAre Firewalls Dead? and read the associated articles and a couple of thought provoking points were discussed during the podcast but a few of the points that Roger mentions, are mostly … Read this post »

APTs Becoming Privatized; Gaining New Levels of Concealment

CRN LogoBy Ken Presti, CRN - 30 May 2012: Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are becoming more sophisticated on two levels: The first involves the technologies themselves; the second involves the “privatization” of their use by the criminal element.… Read this post »

The Firewall is Dead – Long Live the Firewall!

Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks Blog, 18 May 2012: Recently, Roger Grimes opined that the firewall was dead.  Several folks chimed in to tell him that he was wrong, and much debate has ensued, citing reports about the nature of … 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 »

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 »

Tenable Network Security Delivers New Edition of Unified Security Monitoring™ Platform

TenableTenable Press Release – 17 April 2012: SecurityCenter Version 4.4 Enhances Vulnerability Management through Performance Improvements, Enhanced Reporting and User Interfaces, Improved Integration and more. Tenable Network Security, the leader in Unified Security Monitoring (USM), has announced the availability of SecurityCenter … 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 »

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 »

Tripwire Appoints Alex Thurber to VP of Sales for the Americas and APAC

TripwireTripwire Press Release – 16 January 2012

Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of IT security and compliance solutions, has appointed Alex Thurber to the role of VP of Sales for the Americas and APAC.  In his role, he will … Read this post »

Palo Alto Networks Modern Malware for Dummies is NOW AVAILABLE!

Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks – 22 Dec 2011

Modern malware has transformed into highly sophisticated network applications and has, in the process, changed the world of enterprise security and how networks are attacked. These threats are experts at remaining hidden from … Read this post »