Cyber criminals constantly innovate their threat tactics to more efficiently breach organizations and make off with valuable data. As cybercrime evolves, we see increased innovation in the hacking tools and techniques used to evade known security mechanisms. In the past few years, we have seen more advanced, targeted attacks, where hackers spent ample time investigating ...

It’s important to recognize that cloud-first isn’t an initiative that has an end date. In fact, whether the organization decides to move most or all of its infrastructure to the cloud or it starts with just a few SaaS applications, cloud-first is just the beginning of an ongoing process of assessments and decisions that an ...

This white paper describes the challenges of securing your data center and cloud computing environments and how to address those challenges with next-generation firewalls.

Even with more advanced features and supposed higher throughput than ever before, firewalls are not able to keep up with modern demands or advanced threats. Users are more distributed than ever, and so is data. Threats are changing rapidly, and traditional defense mechanisms that rely on layered security do not work.

How to Prevent Security Breaches that Leverage Unknown Exploits This paper provides a list of the Top 10 Zero-Day Exploits of 2015 and offers several possible conclusions based on the types of exploits and their associated cybercrime campaigns. It also provides additional details on three particularly effective zero-day exploits in brief case studies, each of ...

A Unified Theory for Security Practitioners In this paper, we propose that the first principle for all network defenders is to prevent high-risk material impact to the organization. The three essential tasks that support the first principle are: threat prevention, threat detection, and threat eradication. These are the network defender’s first principles; the building blocks ...

Hybrid deployments are one of the most common Amazon Web Services (AWS) scenarios as they extend your on-premises data center (physical, virtualized or both). This white paper provides guidelines and recommendations addressing common questions that arise during hybrid use case deployments, specifically using the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtualized next-generation firewall.

Beyond Layered Security Approaches This white paper looks at how the foundational architecture of a next-gen firewall and security platform “matters” in enabling the business and protecting it against a wide variety of attacks, how it enables unique and specific security scenarios, and how it supports a prevention-oriented approach

Securing Windows XP with Traps Advanced Endpoint Protection Windows XP end-of-life is a critical threat exposure for XP users. Security was one of the major drivers for Microsoft’s decision to end support for this operating system. No doubt, the intention was to urge enterprises to upgrade their systems. In reality, however, Windows XP systems are ...

Advanced Endpoint Protection for Windows Server 2003 After End-of-Support Microsoft announced Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support (EOS) on July 14, 2015. Many businesses are forced by circumstance to leave these systems in service for some time. Retiring a major enterprise component has always been a challenge for IT departments. In addition to various logistical issues, an ...