{"id":50688,"date":"2017-11-18T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=50688"},"modified":"2018-02-08T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T04:50:07","slug":"palo-alto-networks-news-of-the-week-november-18-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/palo-alto-networks-news-of-the-week-november-18-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto Networks News of the Week: November 18, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you miss any of this week\u2019s Palo Alto Networks action? Don\u2019t worry \u2013 we\u2019ve rounded up our top news and views right here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unit 42 shared new research:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/unit42-muddying-the-water-targeted-attacks-in-the-middle-east\/\">Muddying the Water: Targeted Attacks in the Middle East<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>We kicked off our 2018 Cybersecurity Predictions and Recommendations series with these two posts for the financial services and healthcare industries:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/2018-predictions-recommendations-cyber-hygiene-financial-institutions-found-non-compliant-swift-mandatory-security-controls\/\">2018 Predictions &amp; Recommendations: Cyber Hygiene for Financial Institutions Found Non-Compliant with SWIFT Mandatory Security Controls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/2018-predictions-recommendations-advances-machine-learning-will-improve-patient-care-cybersecurity\/\">2018 Predictions &amp; Recommendations: Advances in Machine Learning Will Improve Both Patient Care and Cybersecurity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Our engineers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/engineers-at-work-enhancing-aperture-elasticsearch-mongodb\/\">shared how they used Elasticsearch and MongoDB to enhance Palo Alto Networks Aperture<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/threat-brief-ransomware-hurts-much-hard-stop\/\">threat brief discussed why ransomware hurts so much and is so hard to stop<\/a> and how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/traps-prevents-ransomware-attacks\/\">Traps advanced endpoint protection from Palo Alto Networks<\/a> can help.<\/li>\n<li>Mansur Hasib reviewed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/cybersecurity-canon-blockchain-revolution-technology-behind-bitcoin-changing-money-business-world\/\">Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World<\/a>\u201d for the Cybersecurity Canon.<\/li>\n<li>We explored the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/cso-cybersecurity-human-factors-cybersecurity-human-issue-rather-technical-problem\/\">human factors behind cybersecurity and how, at its core, cybersecurity can be seen as a human issue<\/a> rather than a technical problem.<\/li>\n<li>We examined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/cso-japans-new-cybersecurity-strategies-right-priorities-mind\/\">Japan\u2019s new cybersecurity priorities<\/a> and how they are structured for success.<\/li>\n<li>Palo Alto Networks employees came together to send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/bridging-miles-1000-special-ops-teddy-bears-en-route-u-s-military-active-duty-families\/\">special-ops teddy bears to U.S. military active duty families<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>David Mundhenk and Ben Rothke examined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/guest-post-multifactor-authentication-pci-way\/\">the importance of doing multifactor authentication the PCI way<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/events.paloaltonetworks.com\/\">upcoming events<\/a> around the world that you should know about. Don\u2019t forget to register for our <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/event-calendar\">events calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/287082\">Virtual Ultimate Test Drive - Next Generation Firewall<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>November 20, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/287084\">Virtual Ultimate Test Drive - Advanced Endpoint Protection<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>November 21, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/293005\">Palo Alto Networks VM series on Azure Partner Hands on Session<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>November 22, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Calgary, Canada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/287133\">Virtual Ultimate Test Drive - Migration Process<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>November 22, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.paloaltonetworks.com\/ForresterTEI113017\">Proving the business value of Traps: Forrester webinar<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>November 30, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking to meet up with other Palo Alto Networks users? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fuelusergroup.org\/page\/spark-events\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Fuel, the Palo Alto Networks User Group<\/a>, for opportunities to attend hands-on workshops, events and more!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sit back, relax and enjoy the top Palo Alto Networks news of the week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":44589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[4920,200,251,4644,4923,473,4857,2284,586,1911],"coauthors":[1515],"class_list":["post-50688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-of-the-week","tag-2018-cybersecurity-predictions","tag-apac","tag-cybersecurity-canon","tag-engineers-at-work","tag-events","tag-japan","tag-muddywater","tag-swift","tag-unit-42","tag-veterans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Linkedin-520x320-v1-2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50688","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50700,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50688\/revisions\/50700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50688"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}