{"id":3171,"date":"2013-02-13T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2013-02-13T17:01:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T01:01:20","slug":"state-of-the-union-citrix-and-palo-alto-networks-roadshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/state-of-the-union-citrix-and-palo-alto-networks-roadshow\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union: Citrix and Palo Alto Networks Roadshow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend our inaugural \u2018lunch and learn\u2019 technical seminar co-hosted with our strategic partner Citrix<\/a> in the beautiful, but cloudy, Portland, Oregon.\u00a0 This seminar in Portland (along with a concurrent seminar that occurred in Salt Lake City) kicks off an entire series of seminars<\/a> (\u201cEnsure Performance and Security With an App-Enabled Cloud Network\u201d) all across North America and Latin America.\u00a0 The recent \u2018union\u2019<\/a> between Palo Alto Networks and Citrix didn\u2019t just result in a lunch at a great steak restaurant (Morton\u2019s here in Portland), but we\u2019ve been working on a joint solution to help you build a fast, secure, and reliable application-delivery cloud network, with no compromises, and we\u2019re excited to share our joint solution in a city near you.<\/p>\n

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Danelle Au, speaking to the audience gathered at Morton's in Portland, Oregon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One common question at this event was folks trying to understand the benefits of the joint partnership between Citrix and Palo Alto Networks.\u00a0 I think the video clip in Chad Kinzelberg\u2019s blog entry<\/a> offers the best response to that natural question.\u00a0 Customers win when they take the best-in-class application delivery controller (ADC) - NetScaler from Citrix - and architect that technology with our best-in-class next-generation firewall to deliver a cloud network for their applications and users.<\/p>\n

Starting in Santa Ana, CA next week, world-renowned hacker and security consultant, Kevin Mitnick, is an additional guest speaker during the seminar roadshow for 10 chosen U.S. cities<\/a>.\u00a0 He\u2019s going to effectively demonstrate why we should all shut down our Facebook accounts tonight.\u00a0 But in all seriousness, he\u2019ll discuss how a hacker could easily utilize social media content and Internet-accessible personal information to craft socially engineered attacks against individuals or targeted members of an organization.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be presenting for Palo Alto Networks in the following cities<\/a>. \u00a0I look forward to meeting with you and discussing how we can help secure your data center:<\/p>\n