{"id":12223,"date":"2016-02-19T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=12223"},"modified":"2016-05-11T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:54:19","slug":"palo-alto-networks-academy-collaborates-with-vetsintech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/palo-alto-networks-academy-collaborates-with-vetsintech\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto Networks Academy Collaborates with VetsinTech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Palo Alto Networks Academy collaborated with VetsinTech<\/a> to host a product training session exclusively for veterans.<\/p>\n

Mark McLaughlin gave the welcome address and spoke about the importance of cybersecurity and how its impact and necessity is growing by leaps and bounds in both government and industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mark shared his own background as a veteran and spoke about how job skills and definition that tap into what veterans bring to the table is key when hiring veterans. He also spoke about the importance of cybersecurity education, how new positions are being created in security that reveal its necessity in today's cyberthreat-driven world (for example, the CISO's office), and the impact of\u00a0Palo Alto Networks\u00a0in the area of digital cybercrime protection.<\/p>\n

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Brett Eldridge sent in his greeting to the veterans.<\/p>\n

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The audience, comprised entirely of veterans, was eager to find out more about threat prevention, threat intelligence, and studies and forecasts in those areas.\u00a0Mark answered each question with facts and figures and shared interesting details related to how veterans can help secure our future by using their own experience and expertise in the prevention of successful cyberattacks \u2013 a key goal of Palo Alto Networks.<\/p>\n

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This training was a first of its kind in several ways:<\/p>\n