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From Phishing to Firewalls: Solving Security with AI

Palo Alto Networks

Billy and his team are responsible for developing machine learning models to combat malware and other cyberthreats. Today, his work focuses on applying machine learning to identify and stop malicious activities, such as malware, phishing and other cyberthreats, ensuring the safety of Palo Alto Networks customers.

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Why Proxy-Based Firewalls Are Not Enough

Palo Alto Networks

Proxy-based firewalls or web proxies have been considered an essential security component for some time now, but the question remains: Can proxies really help keep users safe? The first proxy-based firewalls achieved the basic task of controlling which websites users could access on the Internet. Implementation. Effectiveness.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

Why securing cloud workloads is an urgent matter In recent years, major cloud service providers encountered 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with them, underlining the magnitude of cloud security challenges. It’s not as simple as just extending traditional firewall capabilities to the cloud. 8 Complexity.

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We Are a Ten-Time Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls

Palo Alto Networks

1, 2021, Gartner named Palo Alto Networks a Leader for the tenth consecutive time in its Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls for 2021. Our continued innovations provide customers with critical protection from the threats of today and tomorrow, while extending security to all users and all applications throughout the enterprise.

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CVE-2020-12271: Zero-Day SQL Injection Vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall Exploited in the Wild

Tenable

Sophos pushes a hotfix to address a SQL injection vulnerability in Sophos XG Firewall that was exploited in the wild. On April 22, Sophos published a knowledge base entry on the Sophos Community regarding the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in the Sophos XG Firewall that was exploited in the wild. Background. Proof of concept.

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How to Use a Firewall for Network Traffic Analysis and Behavioral Detection

Palo Alto Networks

On March 17, we’ll host a webinar called “ Leverage Your Firewall to Expose Attackers Hiding in Your Network ” to share tips on how you can use your firewall for network traffic analysis. Organizations can take this to the next level by connecting their firewalls to other security sensors throughout their organization.

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Introducing Cloud NGFW for Azure — On-Prem to Azure, Seamlessly Secure

Palo Alto Networks

But, when it comes to keeping their cloud deployments secure, they often tell us they find it hard to combine superior security and easy management with the ability to secure applications consistently across hybrid and multicloud environments. Every day this technology blocks nearly 5 billion events, analyzes 3.5

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