Tuseday, January 9, 2018

The ability to detect an attack and respond to it quickly can be the difference between a minor incident and a breach that costs resources and reputation. The good news is that organizations are making strides in security breach detection, according to the 2017 Trustwave Global Security Report, which examines the results of thousands of investigations into security incidents. 

When looking at incidents in 2016, the median time from intrusion to detection of a compromise fell to 49 days, down from 80.5 days in 2015. As tools such as managed security service (MSS) providers and artificial intelligence are more widely developed and deployed, the median time between intrusion and detection could fall even further this year.

Here are three strategies to consider when looking to improve detection and response before threats take root and cause damage.

Tuseday, December 19, 2017

Network security is increasingly complex, and busy security teams face the challenge of needing full visibility and threat detection capabilities. Network visibility is a key step in preventing cybersecurity attacks, but the reality is that resource-constrained teams already support a wide range of security appliances to help guard their companies from a growing threat landscape. In some cases, they are managing more than any one person, or even team, can use effectively. What can cybersecurity professionals do to address this concern while maintaining efficiency and avoiding resource strain?     

Join us for a webinar to learn how to monitor and manage security policies for applications that span physical networks and hybrid cloud platforms for increased agility with maximum security and compliance – all in 5 steps:

• Gain centralized visibility across heterogeneous environments
• Define and enforce a unified zone-based policy
• Automatically discover and troubleshoot application connectivity to avoid downtime
• Automate and orchestrate policy changes
• Ensure compliance and audit readiness

Palo Alto Networks’ next generation firewalls (NGFW) enable security to be managed with extensive policy granularity. However, replacing or migrating traditional firewall policies to next-generation firewall policies is a complex task that often involves thousands of rules and definitions.

AlgoSec integrates with Palo Alto Networks NGFWs to automate App-ID and User-ID security policy change workflows, business application connectivity mapping and compliance reporting across on-premise and cloud environments.

Last month, the Palo Alto Networks threat research team, Unit 42, sat down with Fuel for a Q&A webinar on the notorious "Scarlet Mimic" campaign. This series of attacks, targeting human rights activitists, as well as orgnaizations with knowledge about these groups, proved to be a long-standing, highly-complex cyberespionage campaign.

Dig deeper with Unit 42 as they answer even more of your questions about this campaign, including how long it took to plan this kind of attack and why organizations may have been so succeptible. 

If you missed the webinar, log in and check out the recording in the resource center. Not a Fuel member? Join today for free to access this and other resources. 

As networks become increasing complex, it's critical to plan - and require - visibility. To do its job properly, each security and monitoring tool needs 100% access to the traffic flowing through the network. Without this visibility, you're blind to suspicious communications and blind to performance monitoring issues. 

Join Fuel User Group and Garland Technology for a webinar addressing how to add native network access that can be used to build, evolve, and transform your network overtime.

Not sure if it’s the right time to migrate to PAN-OS 7.0? Have questions? Our members did! Luckily, we had Palo Alto Networks experts Moshe Itah and Joerg Sieberg on hand to answer questions in an exclusive Fuel Q&A webinar.

Whether you’re considering migrating to Palo Alto Networks systems or a current customer getting ready for the jump to PAN-OS 7.0, you’ll find the information you need to help you get started during our Migration Education Week! Every day on the blog this week starting today, March 7, we’ll be offering exclusive technical advice and resources to help you jumpstart your migration.    

Fuel recently presented "Traffic Visibility & Attack Surface Reduction,” hosted by Kate Taylor of Palo Alto Networks. Here, Kate discusses how Palo Alto Networks’ implementation best practices tips and tricks for the NGFW’s App-ID, User-ID, and SSL decryption technology can help you accomplish your goals.

Fuel recently presented, “How to Expand Your Network Security Policy from Next-Gen Firewalls to Cloud Instances,” hosted by Ofer Or, vice president of products at Tufin. Here, Ofer dives deeper on some of his key takeaways and gives advice on what security professionals can do to make sure their networks are always secure.