Thursday, May 13, 2021

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

Elasticsearch is a very powerful distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. In this video, Charles Buege, Fuel EAC member and Chicago chapter leader, shows you how to go about setting up your own basic Elasticsearch cluster. From here, you can then expand this into your own needs, scale it out across as many nodes as you'd like and start working with this exceptionally versatile open source tool.

Monday, May 3, 2021

By Fuel HQ

Over the past few months, Fuel has been working to update the Fuel Virtual Lab, an environment where users can practice and get familiar with Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS releases. The pre-built lab environment provides access to desktop clients, Linux servers and Palo Alto Networks’ Next-Generation Firewall, and allows users to freely configure to test different features.

Thursday, April 29

By Fuel HQ

Cybersecurity never sleeps — and what’s new today could be old tomorrow. In the spirit of continuous learning, we’ve rounded up a few resources to help you stay on top of your game.

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

By Annabel Steele, Fuel HQ

Tanya Janca gazed out over the sea of expectant faces, her heart thumping so loudly she thought they could all probably hear it too. For a moment, she had one abstract, panicked thought:

Can you die of public speaking? Is that possible?!

But she took a deep breath and launched into her talk.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

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

First off, this is a non-technical article. This is a very different direction from my normal articles, but as you read, you’ll see that this is the intention. I’ve been working with computers for over 30 years. Even back in junior high school, computers always came easily to me. I’m lucky like that. I simply always just “knew” how to make a computer do whatever I wanted it to. I just seemed to inherently know how to “bend it to my will” as some of my friends would say. Needless to say, others I know aren’t as fortunate, so I have been asked many, many times over the years about the different parts of the computer, what they do, etc.

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Review by Charles Buege and Laura Penhallow, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee Members

The Fuel Board of Directors’ own George Finney is an exceptionally talented cybersecurity professional. In his more than 25 years of experience in the cybersecurity field, he has authored several books, taught cybersecurity at Southern Methodist University, has been recognized as one of the top cybersecurity leaders in 2018 by Security Magazine and is a part of the Texas CISO council.

Thursday, February 18, 2021

By Palo Alto Networks

As remote work remains the new normal, companies must continue to ensure their employees have secure access to all apps. “To achieve this, organizations have to rethink their network and security architecture and move towards a Zero Trust approach, with the best security delivered via the cloud everywhere. That is exactly what Prisma Access was built for,” Amit Singh, president of Palo Alto Networks, explains in a recent blog post from the company.

Friday, February 12, 2021

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

When it comes to automation, one of the most important tools to have is knowing how to make API calls. The PAN-OS has several different ways of doing this. In this article, I will concentrate on version 10, since it’s the latest version of the PAN-OS, and I will also be using the REST API instead of the XML API primarily, as that is my personal preference. There is one point where using the XML API is the only option and I will go into that later on.

Friday, January 29, 2021

By Annabel Steele, Fuel HQ

Everything was going well for AJ Yawn, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that he could be doing better.

Yawn has a bachelor’s degree in social science from Florida State University (where he played on the men’s basketball team) and a master’s degree in technology management from Georgetown University. He had spent five years in the U.S. Army, ascending to the rank of Captain. After leaving the Army, he was working in the cybersecurity field as an auditor, performing SOC 2 examinations and ensuring people’s cloud environments were meeting SOC 2 requirements. He was doing better than he had done in any previous position, and putting himself in a good financial situation. In spite of all that, Yawn felt like he could be doing more.

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

By Charles Buege, Fuel Editorial Advisory Committee Member

At Palo Alto Networks’ Ignite ’20 virtual conference last November, Brittany Barbehenn and Alex Hinchliffe of Unit 42 gave a fantastic summary of several items that their research team had seen thus far on the different attack vectors out there. Here, we provide a rundown of the attacks they shared to keep on your radar in the new year and beyond.