Year: 2014

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Gartner Magic Quadrant 2013

Application Security Testing

Business Continuity Management Planning Software

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention

Data Masking Technology

E-Discovery Software

Endpoint Protection Platforms

Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software

Enterprise Information Archiving

Enterprise Network Firewalls

Identity Governance and Administration

Intrusion Prevention Systems

Managed Mobility Services

Mobile Device Management Software

Network Access Control

Secure Email Gateways

Secure Web Gateways

Security Information and Event Management

Unified Threat Management

User Authentication

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Last Updated: 26-APR-2014

Application Security Testing
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Business Continuity Management Planning Software
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Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
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Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention
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Data Masking Technology
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E-Discovery Software
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Endpoint Protection Platforms
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Enterprise Backup/Recovery Software
#Top

Enterprise Information Archiving
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Enterprise Network Firewalls
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Identity Governance and Administration
#Top

Intrusion Prevention Systems
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Managed Mobility Services
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Mobile Device Management Software
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Network Access Control
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Secure Email Gateways
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Secure Web Gateways
#Top

Security Information and Event Management
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Unified Threat Management
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User Authentication
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Information Security as a Business Enabler

The business landscape has changed beyond recognition since I started working, way back in 1969. Every business is now reliant on IT systems and the Internet in order to function. (Just see what happens if your email systems are unavailable for an hour!) New technologies and working practices are introduced at a prodigious rate, as globalisation and consumerisation drive transformation and innovation.

As a result of our dependence on IT systems and connectivity, information and cybersecurity are being pushed up the corporate agenda. This is a good thing. However, information security and its practitioners are still seen as risk-averse business inhibitors who stifle innovation, limit agility and slow efficiency with their strict controls and policies.

Meanwhile, information security teams grapple with the challenges of securing increasingly complex and ever-changing threat landscapes, while attempting to secure increasingly diverse and poorly-understood sets of technologies.

With heightened attention at the board-level, information security professionals have an opportunity to reimagine information security as an enabling function, supporting and adding value to the business as it transforms and innovates. The challenge for many security people is that their passion and enthusiasm can be difficult to communicate to the senior level. We are asked to present arguments in a language business leaders can understand—to remove technobabble from our presentations. Oftentimes we struggle to properly express our concerns and we fail to engage these audiences.

Our information security functions must evolve to become business-led. We must bring business knowledge to security teams and educate security practitioners about the implications of threats. The perception of risk within information security must be changed. Information security must get management/stakeholder buy-in and become fundamental to enterprises, rather than a mere compliance issue. And the language used in this process must improve to ensure effective communication of risk intelligence without instilling fear, uncertainty and doubt.

My keynote panel session at next week’s Infosecurity Europe will explore how information security practitioners can position security as an enabling function and truly support the business. We will consider:

  • How to integrate security into agile business practices
  • New strategies to enable security teams to understand enterprise objectives and speak the language of business
  • How security can help the business collaborate internally, with suppliers and with customers
  • How the security function can inform and contribute to business decision-making
  • What skills are required for an effective security professional and what this all means for the role of the CISO

Peter Wood
Chief executive officer, First Base Technologies, LLP
Member—ISACA London Chapter Security Advisory Group

[Source: ISACA]

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2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls

 

“Next generation” capability has been achieved by the leading products in the network firewall market, and competitors are struggling to keep the gap from widening too much. Buyers must consider their own operational realities and the burden of switching.

The enterprise network firewall market represented by this Magic Quadrant is composed primarily of purpose-built appliances for securing enterprise corporate networks. Products must be able to support single-enterprise firewall deployments and large and/or complex deployments, including branch offices, multitiered demilitarized zones (DMZs) and, increasingly, the option to include virtual versions. These products are accompanied by highly scalable management and reporting consoles, and there is a range of offerings to support the network edge, the data center, branch offices, and deployments within virtualized servers. The companies that serve this market are identifiably focused on enterprises — as demonstrated by the proportion of their sales in the enterprise; as delivered with their support, sales teams and channels; but also as demonstrated by the features dedicated to solve enterprise requirements.

As the firewall market continues to evolve, other security functions (such as network intrusion prevention systems [IPSs], application control, full stack inspection and extrafirewall intelligence sources) will also be provided within an NGFW. The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN market has largely been absorbed by the firewall market. Eventually, the NGFW will also subsume much of the stand-alone network IPS appliance market at the enterprise edge. This will not be immediate, however, and some enterprises will choose to have best-of-breed IPSs embodied in next-generation IPSs (NGIPSs). Although firewall/VPNs and IPSs (and sometimes URL filtering) are converging, other security products are not.

All-in-one or unified threat management (UTM) products are suitable for small or midsize businesses (SMBs), but not for the enterprise. The needs for branch-office firewalls are becoming specialized, and they are diverging from, rather than converging with, UTM products. As part of increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of firewalls, they will need to truly integrate more granular blocking capability as part of the base product, go beyond port/protocol identification and move toward an integrated service view of traffic, rather than merely performing “sheet metal integration” of point products within the same appliance.

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Palo Alto Networks Again Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls

Santa Clara, Calif., April 17, 2014 – Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the leader in enterprise security, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the “leaders” quadrant of the April 15, 2014 “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls.” This is the third year that Palo Alto Networks has been recognized as a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Firewalls.

According to the report, “through 2018, more than 75% of enterprises will continue to seek network security from a different vendor than their network infrastructure vendor.”  The report also states, “products must be able to support single-enterprise firewall deployments and large and/or complex deployments, including branch offices, multi-tiered demilitarized zones (DMZs) and, increasingly, the option to include virtual versions.”QUOTE
  • “We’re thrilled to once again be named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for enterprise firewalls report.  We believe this echoes the momentum we’ve been experiencing as enterprise organizations see the value of a truly next-generation security platform – one that safely enables all applications and proactively prevents cyber threats for all users on any device across any network.”

– René Bonvanie, chief marketing officer at Palo Alto Networks

Leading the Way in Next-generation Enterprise Security

Nine years ago, Palo Alto Networks changed the network security industry with the introduction of the next-generation firewall. This breakthrough architecture brought unparalleled control through the safe enablement of applications, and exceptional levels of protection by blocking all known threats operating across a multitude of different vectors.

Two years ago, we again changed the industry with the introduction of WildFire and a next-generation threat cloud that focuses on detecting and defending against the most advanced, unknown threats. Most recently, through our acquisition of Cyvera, we added unique endpoint protection to the platform.  The combination of our next-generation endpoint technology, our next-generation firewall and our next-generation threat cloud represents the most innovative, integrated, and automated enterprise security platform in the market.

With over 16,000 customers, our momentum is a testament to our innovative approach that protects organizations based on what matters most in today’s dynamic computing environments: applications, users and content – not just ports and protocols – and protecting them from the most advanced cyber threats.

To learn more about the Palo Alto Networks approach, visit: www.paloaltonetworks.com.

To access the report, visit: http://go.paloaltonetworks.com/gartner2014pr.

About Palo Alto Networks

Palo Alto Networks is leading a new era in cybersecurity by protecting thousands of enterprise, government, and service provider networks from cyber threats.  Unlike fragmented legacy products, our security platform safely enables business operations and delivers protection based on what matters most in today’s dynamic computing environments: applications, users, and content.  Find out more atwww.paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks, the Palo Alto Networks Logo and WildFire are trademarks of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other trademarks, trade names or service marks used or mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Media Contacts:

Jennifer Jasper-Smith
Head of Corporate Communications
408-638-3280
jjsmith@paloaltonetworks.com

Tim Whitman
Voce Communications
617-721-5994
twhitman@vocecomm.com

[Source: Palo Alto Networks]

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Palo Alto Networks is now member of Cloud Security Alliance

https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/membership/corporate-members/

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders.

History

The issues and opportunities of cloud computing gained considerable notice in 2008 within the information security community. At the ISSA CISO Forum in Las Vegas, in November of 2008, the concept of the Cloud Security Alliance was born. Following a presentation of emerging trends by Jim Reavis that included a call for action for securing cloud computing, Reavis and Nils Puhlmann outlined the initial mission and strategy of the CSA. A series of organizational meetings with industry leaders in early December 2008 formalized the founding of the CSA. Our outreach to the information security community to create our initial work product for the 2009 RSA Conference resulted in dozens of volunteers to research, author, edit and review our first whitepaper.

We are leading a new era in cybersecurity by protecting thousands of enterprise, government, and service provider networks from cyber threats. Because of our deep expertise, commitment to innovation and game-changing security platform, thousands of customers have chosen us and we are the fastest growing security company in the market.

Our security platform natively brings together all key network security functions, including advanced threat protection, firewall, IDS/IPS, and URL filtering. Because these functions are natively-built into the platform and share important information across the respective disciplines, we ensure better security than legacy firewalls, UTMs, or point threat detection products.

With our platform, organizations can safely enable the use of all applications, maintain complete visibility and control, confidently pursue new technology initiatives like cloud and mobility, and protect the organization from cyber attacks — known and unknown.

Company Fast Facts

  • More than 16,000 customers in over 120 countries across multiple industries
  • More than 65 of the Fortune 100 rely on us to improve their cybersecurity posture
  • Ranked an enterprise firewall market leader by Gartner in 2011 and 2012 (published Feb 2013)
  • FY’13 revenues grew 55% year over year – more than any other publicly traded competitor
    in our market
  • Added more than 1,000 customers per quarter for the last 9 consecutive quarters
  • Partnered with elite IT leaders such as VMware, Citrix, Splunk, and Symantec
  • Named “best place to work” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal
  • Over 1,375 employees worldwide
  • Global support organization with teams in the Americas, EMEA, Asia, and Japan
  • IPO July 2012; stock symbol on the NYSE: PANW

[Source: Cloud Security Alliance]

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