{"id":26208,"date":"2017-04-07T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=26208"},"modified":"2017-04-07T08:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T15:29:19","slug":"partner-channel-scoop-april-7-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/partner-channel-scoop-april-7-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel Scoop \u2013 April 7, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sit back and relax while we bring you this week\u2019s channel scoop.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NextWave eWelcome Kit: <\/strong>New to the NextWave Channel Partner Program? Be sure to check out the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/partners\/nextwave-partner-portal\/partner-program\">eWelcome Kit<\/a>, which has everything from public relations guidelines and templates for announcing your partnership to an infographic on how to navigate the Partner Portal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CYBERFORCE Ultimate Innovator: <\/strong>this new program is exclusively for our CYBERFORCE members and will recognize the most innovative deployment\/use of Palo Alto Networks technology on a quarterly basis. You can learn more, including how to submit on our dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/partners\/nextwave-partner-portal\/help-me-learn\/cyberforce\">CYBERFORCE Partner Portal page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SANS Best of 2016 Winner: <\/strong>our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/palo-alto-networks-next-generation-firewall-wins-sans-best-2016-award\/\">Next-Generation Firewall was<\/a> recognized for providing increases in both the effectiveness and efficiency of cybersecurity programs. The best part is SANS winners are not based on a judging panel, but instead by actual users (security operations professionals and security managers).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Beat AV (Anti-Virus) Vendors: <\/strong>on April 12 at 8AM PST \/3:00 PM BST, we will host our next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/partners\/nextwave-partner-portal\/help-me-learn\/insight-webinars\">Traps Competitive Insights webinar<\/a> for partners. Register today to learn how to compete and win with Traps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Traps Use Cases: <\/strong>According to our annual partner satisfaction survey you want and need access to more case studies and uses cases. For Traps we have uses cases for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/content\/dam\/pan\/en_US\/assets\/pdf\/white-papers\/government-endpoint-use-case.pdf\">Government<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/content\/dam\/pan\/en_US\/partners\/nextwave\/traps-finance-sales-sheet.pdf\">Financial Services<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/content\/dam\/pan\/en_US\/partners\/nextwave\/traps-healthcare-sales-sheet.pdf\">Healthcare<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*To access content on the Partner Portal you must be a Palo Alto Networks NextWave channel partner and have a valid user name and password. Email <a href=\"mailto:NextWave@paloaltonetworks.com\">NextWave@paloaltonetworks.com<\/a> to request Partner Portal access.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.paloaltonetworks.com\/ignite2017\"><div style=\"max-width:100%\" data-width=\"820\"><span class=\"ar-custom\" style=\"padding-bottom:41.46%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignnone wp-image-25356 size-full lozad\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ignite17-social-cover-img-facebook-820x340.png\" alt=\"ignite17-social-cover-img-facebook-820x340\" width=\"820\" height=\"340\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ignite \u201917 Security Conference: Vancouver, BC June 12\u201315, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ignite \u201917 Security Conference is a live, four-day conference designed for today\u2019s security professionals. Hear from innovators and experts, gain real-world skills through hands-on sessions and interactive workshops, and find out how breach prevention is changing the security industry. Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltonetworksignite.com\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Ignite website<\/a> for more information on tracks, workshops and marquee sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sit back and relax while we bring you this week\u2019s channel scoop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":23303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514,78],"tags":[3354,355,3489,778],"coauthors":[1373],"class_list":["post-26208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-scoop","category-partners","tag-cyberforce","tag-nextwave","tag-sans","tag-traps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/small-channel-scoop-banner-498x269.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26217,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26208\/revisions\/26217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26208"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=26208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}