Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 12, 2024

I recently had the honor of testifying before the House Committee on Homeland Security to share the Palo Alto Networks perspective on the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. Adversarial use of AI can allow faster lateral movement within networks and more rapid weaponization of reconnaissance data. None of this should be a surprise.

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Tenable

APRIL 12, 2024

Midnight Blizzard’s successful compromise of Microsoft corporate email accounts and the exfiltration of correspondence between agencies and Microsoft presents a grave and unacceptable risk to agencies,” reads the directive. Specifically, 63% of respondents said AI can potentially boost their organizations’ cybersecurity processes.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 7, 2024

Understanding which vectors result in the most successful attacks can help you reduce the likelihood an attacker succeeds at compromising your organization. While you need to identify the most likely threats to your organization, you also need to identify how threat actors exploit common attack vectors.

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The Parallax

MARCH 20, 2018

T o create layers of obfuscation that hide an attack’s origins, Grange says, Inception Framework then reroutes its malicious messages at least three times through the hijacked routers before ultimately sending them to their targets, or allowing the hidden malware to communicate with its control server.

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CIO

MAY 24, 2023

Along with the promise is the peril of AI being used to cause harm by launching more efficient malware, creating sophisticated deepfakes, or by unintentionally disclosing code or trade secrets. Sastry will answer audience questions about AI and the future of security in a discussion following her presentation.

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Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 6, 2023

In this third episode of " This Is How We Do It, " we delve into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) with Billy Hewlett, leader of the AI research team here at Palo Alto Networks and grandson of Bill Hewlett from the Hewlett Packard Corporation. Billy explains further: “You can look at the URL of the webpage.

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The simplest accurate description is "any weakness in your network that can be exploited." A vulnerability could also be a host on the network that lacks modern protections like next-generation firewalls or anti-malware features. computers, mobile devices or operational technology such as network switches and control systems).

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Lacework

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Once the scanning process uncovers possible targets, the next phase is exploitation, where the threat actors deploy various forms of malware. Kubernetes: A dual-threat As Kubernetes orchestrates container management, it presents a dual-threat landscape: the control plane and the containers themselves. Malware (e.g.,

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Infinidat

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The answer is none, but most of the time enterprise organizations don’t even know that a cybercriminal has infiltrated their data center, network, storage, and servers, compromising their data infrastructure. What enterprise wants to have its data held for ransom because of a ransomware attack? Unawareness is not bliss.

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Palo Alto Networks

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

{{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider “AI’s Impact in Cybersecurity” is a blog series based on interviews with a variety of experts at Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42, with roles in AI research, product management, consulting, engineering and more. Learn more about how AI is improving SecOps.

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Prisma Clud

AUGUST 2, 2023

At Palo Alto Networks, we innovate to outpace cyberthreats so you can prevent, detect and respond to any threat, anytime, anywhere. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is a Gold Sponsor. In this talk, I’ll demonstrate how a worm can crawl through actions and projects, infecting them with malware. Fight Unfairly.

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 22, 2020

It is not simple to prevent intruders from penetrating an organization. I t takes a collaborative approach across cybersecurity vendors, managed security service providers (MSSP) and organizations to take up the global cyber threat challenge. Today’s global cyber threat challenge is no different. Cyber Threats Are a Global Challenge .

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 4, 2023

Healthcare organizations have been embracing digital transformation to provide higher levels of care and near universal access to underserved populations. Each new connected clinic or user presents a potential way for a malicious actor to gain access to critical resources. This is all possible in an integrated, expandable solution.

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Lacework

MARCH 6, 2024

Living Off the Land (LOTL) attacks have emerged as an advanced attack vector that all organizations need to understand and defend against. Unlike traditional malware, LOTL techniques exploit trusted system tools already present in the environment, making detection incredibly difficult.

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 20, 2020

Once attackers get access to a virtual private network (VPN), they can often penetrate the rest of the network like a hot knife through butter. Not so much the case anymore – VPNs are often encouraged for all users as a more secure connection than home or public networks. Lack of visibility into remote user activity.

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Tenable

MARCH 19, 2024

Clusters often run the most critical workloads to a company’s business and may also have access to the organization's most sensitive resources including confidential company and customer data. The capability enables organizations to deploy workloads to Kubernetes clusters with greater confidence.

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Prisma Clud

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Learn how a novel attack vector in GitHub Actions allows attackers to distribute malware across repositories using a technique that exploits the actions dependency tree and puts countless open-source projects and internal repositories at risk. But how can the attackers extend their reach and infect more repositories?

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MagmaLabs

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Cyber hygiene is a set of practices and techniques that individuals and businesses perform regularly to ensure the safety and health of users, data, devices, and networks. As a result, your data gets secured and protected from malware, other attacks, or security breaches. All You Need To Know About Cyber Hygiene.

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Altexsoft

JUNE 2, 2020

Organizations are struggling to manage and prioritize the large number of new vulnerabilities they come upon on a daily basis. This can help protect organizations even before vulnerabilities are officially reported and patched. Network security. The list below explains the good aspects of AI impact. Vulnerability management.

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Tenable

JANUARY 26, 2024

1 - Using AI securely: Global cyber agencies publish new guide Is your organization – like many others – aggressively adopting artificial intelligence to boost operational efficiency? And a global survey shows cyber pros weighing pros and cons of AI. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending January 26.

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Ivanti

AUGUST 24, 2020

Many organisations are now establishing work-from-anywhere policies and facing some questions around security best practices: How do we simply push out the latest apps to our employees’ devices while they are working from home on unsecured networks? Malicious actors are now in your home network and your kid’s mobile device is the culprit!

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Kaseya

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In our earlier post, we presented Top 5 Ways to Improve the Security of Your Business. It’s critically important for organizations to dev e lop security awareness programs that educate employees on phishing scams, ways to avoid unintentional downloads of malware, and the security policies of the company.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Security provider Blue Coat reports that the average data breach costs an organization $10,000, with some breaches being more commonly reported in the tens of millions. Install malware protection software. Mobile malware used to be uncommon, but its popularity is growing. Update apps as soon as possible.

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Infinidat

DECEMBER 5, 2023

You may be familiar with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) which was first developed and published in 2014 to help organizations worldwide easily and effectively manage cybersecurity risk. CSRC supports people and organizations in government, industry, and academia—both in the U.S. NIST’s mission is to promote U.S.

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Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 24, 2024

{{interview_audio_title}} 00:00 00:00 Volume Slider 10s 10s 10s 10s Seek Slider “AI’s Impact in Cybersecurity” is a blog series based on interviews with a variety of experts at Palo Alto Networks and Unit 42 with roles in AI research, product management, consulting, engineering and more. Learn more about AI in Cybersecurity.

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Xebia

APRIL 26, 2023

With the rise of technologies such as ChatGPT, it is essential to be aware of potential security flaws and take steps to protect yourself and your organization. The architecture consists of multiple layers of transformer blocks, with attention mechanisms and feedforward neural networks used to process the input and generate the output.

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Prisma Clud

JANUARY 13, 2023

Several factors have combined to spur this accelerating cloud migration, including substantial technology advancements, the impact of COVID on workforce deployments, and the ever-present challenges in hiring and maintaining IT and IT security teams. The post Implementing Cloud-Native Security appeared first on Palo Alto Networks Blog.

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Kaseya

APRIL 6, 2023

A complex and diverse IT environment fosters innovation and growth but also considerably expands an organization’s attack surface , attracting cybercriminals. MDR is a high-tech cybersecurity service that can radically improve an organization’s security posture by taking on advanced cyberthreats and eliminating them for good.

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Kaseya

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Not only have cyberattacks become way more sophisticated, they increased by 29% across organizations worldwide during the first half of 2021. Plus, with the rapid rise of the BYOD culture in the workplace and thousands of personal devices connecting to corporate networks, the chances of malware attacks are only getting higher.

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Trigent

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But that’s not all – an astonishing 98% of these leaders are boldly predicting a profound role for these AI models within their organizations over the next three to five years. Additionally, AI-generated threats excel in adaptability, thus presenting an alarming challenge for real-time detection and mitigation.

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Palo Alto Networks

AUGUST 20, 2020

includes advances in decryption to match the growing challenges for organizations. . While this is great news for the end user, here’s the problem: Encryption provides confidentiality and privacy , but it does not guarantee the presence of security, and it presents the perfect opportunity for malware to hide. Luckily, PAN-OS 10.0

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Ivanti

JULY 13, 2022

Traditionally, organizations imposed a heavy-hand over the types of IT resources their workers employ and how they will use them. It turns out that when users are presented with devices, applications, and services they prefer to use, they are far more productive and enthusiastic about their relationship to the organizations.

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Tenable

JUNE 1, 2020

As organizations tighten their belts amid the ongoing pandemic response, there is renewed urgency in measuring the value of every dollar invested. For critical infrastructure and manufacturing organizations, the cyber threat looms larger every year. Organizations are increasingly buying insurance policies with cybersecurity riders.

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Tenable

MAY 25, 2023

In both the joint CSA and Microsoft’s blog post, Volt Typhoon has been observed targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the United States as well as the U.S. How does Volt Typhoon gain initial access to targeted organizations? Does Volt Typhoon use any malware? island territory of Guam.

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CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2014

Major Market Demand for Advanced Threat Protection Driving Rapid Platform Adoption and Expansion of Technology Ecosystem; Company Announces Integration With Palo Alto Networks’ Wildfire Platform. To be comprehensive and present the strongest defense requires a proactive posture in addressing risks to our network.

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TechFides Blog

AUGUST 25, 2023

Worse, those bad guys are already working to subvert AI cyber defenses with their own black hat weaponized AI developed malware and methodologies. For example, an AI-powered intrusion detection system could be fooled by subtly altering malicious code or network traffic to appear benign.

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 4, 2020

Video conferencing lets us share what’s important to us in realtime and to solve problems together without having to be physically present in one location. . Here are a few that we’ve observed to date, and how organizations can take steps to address them: . The attacker is able to discover or guess the meeting ID, known as war dialing.

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