Palo Alto Networks has unveiled new features of its cloud security platform during the company’s Epic Cloud Security Event held Tuesday. The Next-Generation Security Platform will work to expand cloud workload protections to Google‘s cloud platform and offer added security for Amazon Web Services‘ and Microsoft‘s respective cloud environments, Palo Alto Networks said …

Okta will integrate its cloud-based user identity management platform with a Palo Alto Networks security tool with the goal to bolster network, cloud and endpoint security. The Okta Identity Cloud integration with Palo Alto’s Next-Generation Security Platform is designed to enable automated monitoring, analysis and response in efforts to strengthen cybersecurity, Okta announced Wednesday. “The security …

Palo Alto Networks has begun to offer its virtualized firewall on Microsoft‘s Azure Government Cloud platform in a move to help public sector customers protect their applications and data in the cloud. Microsoft said Monday that Palo Alto Networks’ VM-Series firewall works to analyze all traffic in a single pass to determine application identity, …

Palo Alto Networks has unveiled new purpose-built hardware and virtual firewall appliances that work to offer threat prevention and SSL decryption functions in efforts to prevent cyber attacks across cloud, endpoint and network environments. The company said Tuesday the new appliances support the release of the updated Next-Generation Security Platform with more than 70 …

Pamela Warren, director of government and industry solutions at Palo Alto Networks, has said government agencies should adopt automation in an effort to protect networks from emerging cyber threats and predict cyber attackers’ actions. Warren wrote in a FedTech Magazine article published Tuesday that a recent Commission on Enhancing National …

Palo Alto Networks has integrated its virtualized firewalls with the auto scaling and elastic load balancing platforms of Amazon Web Services in an effort to help joint customers secure their workloads. The companies seek to help clients automatically scale cyber breach prevention tools as their cloud-based workloads fluctuate through the use of VM-Series firewalls in conjunction with AWS Lambda, …

Carahsoft will act as a federal government market distributor of Palo Alto Networks‘ information technology security platform that works to prevent threats and implement protective measures throughout an attack lifecycle. Palo Alto Networks built its Next-Generation Security Platform is designed to utilize network, cloud and endpoint security to offer full visibility and control …

A threat intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks has found that a cyber espionage group has launched a new spear phishing attack against the U.S. government. The company said Tuesday its Unit 42 discovered that the Sofacy threat group, also called APT28, used a compromised email account linked to a foreign …

Palo Alto Networks will help the California Department of General Services build a consolidated security infrastructure for government applications and information technology systems using the Palo Alto Networks Security Platform. The company said Wednesday the new security infrastructure will include industrial control systems, distribution systems for legislative information, office applications and environments, and …

VMware and Palo Alto Networks are co-developing a network security tool to monitor intra-server traffic between virtual machines, the Virtualization Review reported Monday. Christa Ayer writes the new cloud tool will be designed to help manage east-west traffic of software-defined data centers. The companies aim to VMware’s NSX virtualized network …

  Chuck Robel, former chairman of the board of McAfee Inc., has been appointed to the Palo Alto Networks board of directors, the network security company announced today. Robel is an industry veteran with nearly 40 years of experience in the areas of finance, corporate governance and technology strategy to …

A cloud computing product designed by Palo Alto Networks has secured an “In Process” designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

Palo Alto Networks has recognized Carahsoft Technology in validation of the latter’s efforts as a public sector distribution partner.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 10, 2020 — HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ), Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK), Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and Dataiku became the newest members of Leidos' (NYSE: LDOS) alliance partner network to help drive innovation for government and commercial customers, ExecutiveGov reported July 27.

The Cyber Threat Alliance has partnered with the Center for Internet Security to launch joint efforts focused on threat intelligence and leverage the latter's Department of Homeland Security-funded cybersecurity facilities.