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Moving Away from a Swiss Cheese Security Model

For the past few months, our team has been hard at work to research and build our latest Application Usage and Threat Report (see more from Matt Keil on the report here, here and here). Some of the most interesting data that we uncovered addressed the security of Internet social networking applications:

Mar 15, 2013

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Zero Trust Solution Brief

During the recent Data Center summit, two of the most common questions were how to get more information on the Forrester Research Zero Trust architecture and how to implement a Zero Trust network architecture with Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls.

Jul 18, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Policy Exception 2.0

Last week, we published our 9th Application Usage and Risk Report summarizing the application traffic patterns observed between November 2011 and April 2012 on more than 2,000 networks worldwide. The most significant and startling difference between this report and the...

Jul 03, 2012

By Matt Keil

Watch Out Corporate Networks, Here Come the Olympics!

Here in the states, the excitement around the 2012 Olympics is building rapidly as we watch the U.S. Olympic team trials for track and field, swimming and gymnastics. The competition is an amazing teaser to wh...

Jun 27, 2012

By Matt Keil

Dealing with Unknown Traffic in Your Data Center

In previous posts , we have explored various data center security best practices in protecting the data center, and of course Palo Alto Network’s fundamental approach starts off with application visibility. Ap...

May 31, 2012

By Palo Alto Networks

Threat Intelligence

DNSChanger Rogue DNS Servers Taken Down

Great info from the Palo Alto Networks Product Management Team on the latest events surrounding DNSChanger.

Feb 06, 2012

By Sal Partovi

Three Ways Social Media Can Put Enterprises at Risk

In a recent post for ReadWriteWeb (3 Ways Social Media Can Put Enterprises at Risk), I outlined a few IT security “blind spots” that many companies are currently trying to address when dealing with social media...

Feb 06, 2012

By Rene Bonvanie

I am a Social Media Fanatic...

I confess. I am a social media fanatic. I have even been called other words – ones rather unsuitable for this blog. But I love social media; I love how it gives me the ability to stay connected and keep up to date – both personally and professionally. So you can imagin...

Jan 31, 2012

By Rene Bonvanie

Workers of the World Unite (and be Social)

While our resident research analyst and long-standing author of the Palo Alto Networks Application Usage and Risk Report, Matt Keil, is out speaking at one of our European User Group Conferences this week, I wa...

Jan 26, 2012

By Matt Keil

“Active” Social Networking Up 300%; Twitter Skyrockets 700%

In last week’s blog entry, Rene’ aptly termed 2011 as the Year of Me; the year when social media and a wide range of other personal applications were used in abundance on corporate...

Jan 17, 2012

By Matt Keil

Dropbox and iCloud: David vs Goliath?

Today I saw this article in Wired on Dropbox and found it very interesting based on the classic David vs Goliath comparison, where the small, innovative solution is pitted against the larger, more established solutions and vendors (Apple and their new iCloud offering)....

Dec 22, 2011

By Matt Keil

BusinessWeek and the "Facebook Generation"

A very big day for Palo Alto Networks, indeed. The significant time Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg BusinessWeek spent with Nir, our board members, customers and analysts resulted in an article we are very excited ab...

Oct 21, 2011

By Rene Bonvanie

Another Chrome Feature; A New Hole in Your Firewall?

The recent addition of remote desktop control to Google Chrome sounds pretty cool – the casual, tech savvy user can now help their friend or family out if they are having problems with their PC. While remote ac...

Oct 12, 2011

By Matt Keil

Streaming Audio: An Enabling Tool or Productivity Drain?

There is a view in some IT circles that any non-work related application should be banned. Social networking is their poster child and the rationale is that these apps are time wasting, bandwidth hogging, threa...

Jul 18, 2011

By Matt Keil

European Workers: More Social, But Not (Necessarily) Less Productive

We recently published data that analyzed application activity in more than 1,250 organizations worldwide and confirmed what most assumed to be the case: that Facebook is indeed the...

Jun 03, 2011

By Matt Keil

Hiding in Plain Sight: 41% of the Applications; 36% of the Bandwidth

The 7th Edition of the Palo Alto Networks Application Usage and Risk Report provides insight into application activity that is based on 1,253 application assessments that show what...

May 12, 2011

By Matt Keil

What's APPening with FASP

A big shortcoming of traditional file transfer protocols such as FTP or HTTP has been the impact on throughput that results from TCP’s aggressive congestion control mechanism; especially when transferring large data files over wide area networks. Aspera's FASP is an app...

Dec 10, 2010

By Palo Alto Networks

Which is Riskier: Consumer Devices or the Applications In Use?

A somewhat rhetorical question really. Much like which came first, the chicken or the egg. In his ThreatPost article, George Hulme highlights the challenges and risks associated wi...

Dec 03, 2010

By Matt Keil

OMG! Facebook Users are Voyeurs!

The latest Application Usage and Risk Report shows that when at work, Facebook users exhibit passive, voyeuristic usage patterns as opposed to a more active game playing or posting usage pattern. This activity pattern indicates that the “productivity loss associated wit...

Oct 28, 2010

By Matt Keil

Browser-based Filesharing: Next-Generation P2P?

Since we began tracking the use of browser-based file sharing applications in the March 2008, they have evolved to the point where there are now several distinct use cases. As described in the latest Applicatio...

Oct 21, 2010

By Matt Keil

App-ID and the Rule of All

Recently, the discussion surrounding application visibility and control provided by next-generation firewalls has become deafening. Now, every stateful inspection based firewall vendor is calling themselves a next-generation firewall that can identify and control applic...

Sep 21, 2010

By Matt Keil

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