Security has become a big topic in organisations large and small around New Zealand. The role of security has made a dramatic shift from being a business inhibitor to becoming an amazing business enabler – but only if it stays ahead of the curve presented by adversaries, attackers and villains.
To provide organisations with the best security capabilities to prevent successful cyber attacks, Palo Alto Networks have recently announced a number of new enhancements and capabilities to their Next-Generation Security Platform which we’d love to share with you.
Credential theft is a challenge which until now has evaded most modern security systems. If an attacker can just steal a valid user’s password through phishing for it – they don’t need to go through exploiting systems, creating malware and moving laterally. PAN-OS 8.0 can now protect you from this by preventing the submission of valid corporate credentials to these illegitimate websites right at the network layer – the next-generation firewall.
As your organisation embraces and moves applications and data to the cloud, you also need to consider security. How do you protect data the same way you would through segmentation of your own data centre? Palo Alto Networks has expanded the VM-Series of virtualised firewall appliances with several new models to become the broadest and most powerful line on the market. As well, they’ve announced several new hardware models<\/a> that meet the price\/performance needs of New Zealand businesses perfectly – yet still provide ample power to handle increasing encrypted traffic and consumption of cloud based applications.
And to keep you ahead of the curve against those increasingly sophisticated adversaries, the WildFire<\/a> zero-day threat identification service has had a number of innovations including the addition of machine learning and anti-evasion measures. The malware analysis environment has been rebuilt from the ground up to cloak virtualisation techniques and introduce bare-metal execution when needed. All this, combined with the network effect of thousands of other WildFire customers automatically contributing unknown threats, makes WildFire the most rapid and accurate source of truth available.
To find out more about how these and more powerful enhancements to the Palo Alto Networks security platform can benefit your organisation.