Palo Alto Networks is no longer looking for more large mergers and acquisitions
Palo Alto Networks is not planning to make any large acquisitions after spending $3.46 billion on 12 acquisitions since 2018.
According to Chairman and CEO Nikesh Arora, the Santa Clara, California-based security vendor has had to be more careful when checking out acquisition targets since it al... Read more
Palo Alto Networks updates Prisma Cloud CSPM, adds new detection capabilities
Palo Alto Networks introduced five new capabilities to the cloud security posture management of Prisma Cloud. These updates include a visibility-as-code feature and a pair of threat detection capabilities that can protect customers against crypto-jacking and data exfiltration.
Varun Badhwar, SVP... Read more
Unit 42 from Palo Alto Networks finds the first Windows Container malware
Palo Alto Networks revealed that it discovered the first known malware targeting Windows containers.
It has been named Siloscape and uses sophisticated code obfuscation techniques to create backdoors into a Kubernetes cluster running Windows containers that can be exploited later.
Matt Chiodi... Read more
Palo Alto Networks focuses on container security
Palo Alto Networks is investing heavily to expand its portfolio. This by further developing its own products and acquiring other companies. Container security has played a prominent role in this growth strategy for a number of years now. We spoke to Director Systems Engineering Northern Europe Mike... Read more
Palo Alto Networks advances Zero Trust IT environment
Palo Alto Networks is releasing new features to make Zero Trust Network Security easier to implement. The company wants to guarantee secure access to applications and data.
Palo Alto Networks sees the importance of a Zero Trust architecture is increasing. This is partly due to the role of the hy... Read more
Palo Alto Networks Automatically protects unprotected VMs
Palo Alto Networks has announced several new features for Prisma Cloud. The most important of these is that the software can now automatically detect unprotected VMs and add security to them.
The detection of unprotected VMs works on VMs running on AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform. ... Read more
Palo Alto introduces Checkov 2.0, scans IaCs on dependency issues
Palo Alto Networks has announced version 2.0 of its Checkov software. The new version of the IaC scanner is now capable of detecting misconfigurations in systems with complex dependencies.
"This release is the most significant update to Checkov since it launched in 2019," said Matt Johnson, Brid... Read more
Palo Alto Networks to acquire Bridgecrew for $156 million
Palo Alto Networks, the network security firm, said that it is acquiring Israeli cloud security firm Bridgecrew. The deal will be made in cash and is worth $156 million. The announcement was made on Tuesday morning and marks the seventh acquisition of an Israeli company by Palo Alto Networks.
Is... Read more
New APT malware is attributed to Chinese government hackers
The so-called "BendyBear" malware uses anti-analysis techniques that make it difficult to detect.
Security researchers have warned of a new malware strain linked to cyber attacks on governments in East Asia.
According to the elite Unit42 security researchers at Palo Alto Networks, the m... Read more
Kubernetes clusters for crypto mining targeted by “Hildegard”
Kubernetes clusters used for cryptocurrency mining are being targeted in the wild by a new form of malware. Details of this were released by security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42. The malware has been named Hildegard and was first detected in January. It is believed that the TeamTN... Read more