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.

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

By Fuel HQ

On December 13^th, SolarWinds announced that hackers had inserted malware into a service that provides software updates for its Orion platform. Palo Alto Networks has quickly responded with a number of resources to help navigate SolarStorm attack, the name they assigned to the recent campaign of attacks connected to a suspected nation state actor behind the SolarWinds SUNBURST malware.

Below is a roundup of resources that the Fuel community can access online.    

Monday, December 21, 2020

By Annabel Steele, Fuel HQ

Jason Blanchard’s path to the information security (InfoSec) field began in an unlikely spot: Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Stationed there as a combat cameraman, Blanchard’s job was to create content and videos for the military. Fort Knox is where tank operators are trained, so Blanchard was not lacking for interesting footage. When the time came to make the next step in his career, Blanchard left the military and went to film school at Full Sail University in Florida. With six years of filmmaking experience under his belt when he arrived, Blanchard quickly earned a new title: teacher.