By Victor Monga, CISO, Adversity Testing Foundation, Los Angeles Fuel Chapter Leader

Deploying any next-generation firewall (NGFW) in a public cloud environment is challenging, not justbecause of the firewall itself but also because of the public cloud networking services practitioners must use. The job of understanding cloud networking complexities to ensure a successfully configured and maintained firewall deployment is no small task. It’s a task that is possible — though difficult — and it comes with performance, scale, and visibility tradeoffs that must be considered closely. This blog explores Aviatrix’s intelligent orchestration and control service to simplify the deployment of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Firewalls and eliminate those tradeoffs.

The great cloud migration is well underway. According to the Gartner Predicts 2022 report series, “more than 75% of organizations use multiple public cloud services today, and have plans to expand.”

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

by Charles Buege, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee Member, Chicago Fuel Chapter Leader

Just sit right back
And you'll hear a tale.
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny ship.

Oh, wait, sorry. That’s the theme to Gilligan’s Island. Our journey isn’t nearly that dramatic or that long in duration.

Thursday, October 28, 2021

By Fuel HQ

The effects of the pandemic have put digital transformation into hyperdrive. The threat landscape is heightened, attackers have become more sophisticated and organizations are more vulnerable than ever. How can cybersecurity professionals be prepared for what lies ahead?

Ignite ’21 will answer these questions and more, gathering the cybersecurity community for three days of learning from customers, industry experts and Palo Alto Networks thought leaders.

The conference will take place virtually November 15-18. Registration is open here and is FREE to join.

Monday, October 4, 2021

By Charles Buege and Laura Penhallow, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee Members

Nagios is both a commercial and open-source system monitoring tool. In this video, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee Members Charles Buege and Laura Penhallow dive into the world of Nagios and show viewers how to get started using the tool, configure servers and set up hosts to communicate with it. Additionally, they discuss the different intricacies of the system and several advanced features.

Friday, September 3, 2021

By Samaresh Nair, Palo Alto Networks

Firewalls have evolved over the last 20 years from stateless packet-based processing to stateful firewalls that were still based on ports and protocols. Then came the next evolution of Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). NGFWs are what's known as "application aware."

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

By Charles Buege, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee Member, Chicago Chapter Leader

Sed is a *nix-based (Unix and Linux) text editing tool that allows you to rapidly change out text in a file in a single place or multiple via command-line or with a script. In this video how-to, Charles Buege, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee member and Chicago chapter leader, provides an overview of sed and shows examples of how a *nix administrator can utilize it in their daily work.

Thursday, July 29, 2021

By Fuel HQ

For IT and network security professionals, it’s crucial to have access to quick, applicable solutions in order to address threats in the ever-changing security landscape. For Palo Alto Networks users, help is just a click away in the LIVEcommunity. This peer-to-peer forum allows industry professionals to not only work together to troubleshoot threats, but also openly discuss ways to enhance an interface and navigate different products and services.

Thursday, June 10, 2021

By Fuel HQ

View part 1 of the Open Source series here.

Open source software has come a long way over the years and more cybersecurity professionals have started to adopt it into their programs. In part two of our Open Source series, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee (EAC) members share their thoughts on the software's progression over time and how industry professionals can safely control it.