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. 

We’re continuing to answer your questions from our popular PAN-OS 7.0 webinar. This week’s topic is correlation.

Question 1: Can I benefit from the correlation feature with a 3020? You mention it’s only available with certain hardware platforms. Answer: Correlation objects are implemented on 3xxx, 5xxx and 7xxx devices. If you forward the logs to Panorama, it will support correlation objects for all devices.

Our recent webinar, “A 360-Degree View into Network Security Management with Panorama,” which discussed the enhanced features of Panorama and ACC in PAN-OS 7.0, was our most popular to date and received so many questions that we couldn’t address them all during the allotted webcast time. So the Palo Alto Networks product management team provided answers to your questions on functionality, speed and more.

We will continue to answer questions from our PAN-OS 7.0 webinar every week, so stay tuned.

by Joerg Sieber

Most companies have it deployed somewhere in their networks. It is most often thought off as a productivity tool to stop employees from wasting time with social media, shopping, porn, gambling, or many other sites during working hours: URL Filtering. 

by Joerg Sieber

How do you eat an elephant?”

“One bite at a time!”

Remember the old saying? It holds true. But what if the elephant grows every time you take a bite, as is the case in today’s IT and security world?

Every time a data analyst takes a bite out of big data, more data appears, resulting in complete overload of information to the point where analysis paralysis sets in. Data from network operations, data from your firewalls, data from your mobile security solution, data from endpoints… it all keeps streaming in. Security professionals today are dealing with a world where data literally clogs up the analysis pipeline, making it useless beyond belief. According to Goldman Sachs, 90 percent of the world’s data has been created in the last two years. And the influx of data is not slowing down any time soon.