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Commercial Initiatives for Partner Success – Breakaway 1=5

Our partners can now take advantage of multiple enhancements to our award-winning NextWave Partner Program that help enhance partner profitability, enable partner differentiation, expand partner opportunities, and empower success. In the first installment of our Breakaway 1=5 series, I unveiled our new program framework and expa...

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Feb 02, 2023

By Tom Evans

Palo Alto Networks

Products and Services

Partners

Announcement, Partners, Products and Services

Partner-to-Partner: Delivering Managed Services Without Overhead Cost

Due to staffing shortages, skill gaps and compliance concerns, more customers are moving to a managed services model to achieve their business needs....

Dec 28, 2022

By Tom Evans

Cybersecurity, Malware, Threat Advisory/Analysis, Unit 42

Analysis: CryptoWall 3.0, Dyre and I2P

For a moment, put yourself in the shoes of a cyber criminal. You’ve collected an array of tools (malware), built up your infrastructure (command and control (C2) servers) and you have a process to make money off your hard work. You wake up...

Feb 01, 2015

By Ryan Olson

Uncategorized

Watch Out Corporate Networks, Here Come the Olympics!

Here in the states, the excitement around the 2012 Olympics is building rapidly as we watch the U.S. Olympic team trials for track and field, swimming and gymnastics. The competition is an amazing teaser to wh...

Jun 27, 2012

By Matt Keil

Uncategorized

Browser-based Filesharing: Next-Generation P2P?

Since we began tracking the use of browser-based file sharing applications in the March 2008, they have evolved to the point where there are now several distinct use cases. As described in the latest Applicatio...

Oct 21, 2010

By Matt Keil

Uncategorized

A Subtle Shift in File Sharing Usage

Since the inaugural Application Usage and Risk Report (Spring Edition, 2008), browser-based file-sharing usage in terms of frequency has steadily increased to the point where it now exceeds that of peer-to-peer file sharing. (more…)

Dec 09, 2009

By Matt Keil

Uncategorized

Mariposa: How Exposed Are We?

The Application and Threat Research Team has done a great job of provide insight into what the Mariposa threat as well as how to quickly analyze their networks to see if Mariposa is present via the WireShark plugin. Based on the applications that Mariposa uses to spread...

Nov 01, 2009

By Matt Keil

Threat Advisories - Advisories

Marine One Blueprints found on P2P network

What's next -- the missile launch codes? While the record industry has targeted the universities and student populations in their battle against piracy, P2P use has enjoyed continued success in the business wor...

Mar 03, 2009

By Matt Keil

Firewall

Online file transfer - the next P2P?

ANALYSIS – In recent months, new online file transfer and storage applications have popped up with increasing frequency and the latest, Docstoc makes concerted efforts to simplify the upload process by installing an applet on your desktop. Docstoc differentiates...

Jun 11, 2008

By Matt Keil

Firewall

P2P Networks: A Treasure Trove of Data

ANALYSIS – Music and video are not the only things you can find on P2P networks. Sure, everyone has heard about the massive loss of employee data caused by P2P usage but what about the less publicized loss of personal documents, billing information, and corporate...

Apr 15, 2008

By Matt Keil

Firewall

A Deal With the Devil?

ANALYSIS – This article is downright humorous. Here we have two networking companies, each with security products or at a minimum, security features, who have indirectly endorsed the same application category (P2P) that has been the source of some of the largest d...

Jan 10, 2008

By Matt Keil

Firewall

LimeWire Claims: We're #1!

ANALYSIS – This article highlights the fact that even with the negative publicity, the risk of lawsuit or loss of personal information, P2P applications remain extremely popular. The application is supposedly installed on 36.4% of all PCs -approximately 1.66 mill...

Dec 26, 2007

By Matt Keil

Firewall

Comcast wants to block BitTorrent... How about you?

ANALYSIS – Comcast, the Internet Service Provider, has allegedly been throttling traffic for subscribers who are using peer-to-peer (p2p) applications such as BitTorrent. Comcast has justified this actio...

Nov 28, 2007

By Matt Keil

Firewall

Another Subtle Reminder on the Risks of P2P...

ANALYSIS – In this Wall Street Journal article, the author does a great job of highlighting the hidden risks of P2P applications. With more than 450 Million copies of P2P software deployed, 12 million of which...

Nov 12, 2007

By Matt Keil

Firewall

P2P Strikes Again!

ALERT – Peer-to-peer (P2P) software continues to cause security risks for users and corporate networks with private data being accidentally shared across file sharing networks. ABN Amro (CitiGroup-owned mortgage company) recently reported that a former employee had exposed a couple of spreadsh...

Sep 27, 2007

By Matt Keil

Firewall

Yet Another Reason To Block P2P?

ANALYSIS - This article shows how hackers can add insult to injury by releasing a Trojan that laughs at you while it erases your files. Originally developed as part of the Usenix network, P2P has become a poster child for bad network behavior - bandwidth consuming, malw...

Sep 05, 2007

By Matt Keil

Firewall

uTorrent Becomes the Official BitTorrent Client

ALERT - uTorrent, an extremely popular BitTorrent client, has been re-branded and released as the official mainline BitTorrent client, appropriately named BitTorrrent 6.0.

Aug 12, 2007

By Mike Jacobsen

Firewall

BitTorrent Releases Streaming Video Application

ALERT - This San Jose Mercury News article covers the recent BitTorrent announcement of their streaming video service, joining the ranks of Joost and Babelgum who are delivering a similar service.

Aug 07, 2007

By Matt Keil

Firewall

Skinkers Announces Live TV Broadcasting via P2P

ALERT - Skinkers, a London-based company, is using Microsoft Research's LiveStation (beta) and Silverlight technologies to stream live television content over a peer-to-peer(P2P) network, which means that users...

Jul 17, 2007

By Matt Keil

Firewall, PAL Applications - Analysis

P2P Programs Share More Than Music

ANALYSIS - Most commonly known for its place in sharing music across vast networks of connected PCs, this article does a great job of summarizing how P2P applications will integrate themselves into the existing applications and folders &nda...

Jun 21, 2007

By Matt Keil

Firewall

Employee Records Show Up In P2P Traffic

ANALYSIS - A recent Computerworld article on the appearance of employee records in P2P traffic demonstrates that the risk of P2P applications on corporate networks goes far beyond the copyright lawsuit threats...

Jun 18, 2007

By Matt Keil

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