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Register Now: Spark User Summit: The Value of Strata Cloud Manager and Your Journey from Panorama

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Join us on November 19th, 2026 at 9:30 AM Pacific Time for the first of many Strata Cloud Manager sessions we have planned. This first session is going to concentrate on key benefits, licensing options , deployment and operational models, and phased migration strategies and best practices to help you plan a smooth transition. Click here to re...

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Join Us in Welcoming LIVEcommunity's 2026-2027 Cyber Elite Experts!

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Welcome back to another milestone year for our community! Every thriving cybersecurity community has its champions: the dedicated experts, problem-solvers, and mentors who consistently share their technical knowledge and elevate the conversation for everyone. Since 2020, the LIVEcommunity Cyber Elite program has been our way of celebrating the...

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DIY AI Security: A First Look at the Custom App-ID Signature Generator

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If you’ve been managing Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) for a while, you know the drill. A new, obscure, or internally built application hits the network, and the firewall classifies it as unknown-tcp or general web-browsing/ssl. To gain visibility and control over that specific traffic, you have to write a custom App-ID sig...

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Palo Alto Networks Ranks #1: Leading the 2026 URL Filtering Benchmark in Security and Efficiency Across NGFW and SSE

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Two independent 2026 validation reports by SecureIQLab confirm Palo Alto Networks leads across both Next-Generation Firewall (VM-Series) and Security Service Edge (Prisma Access) deployments on overall security efficacy, operational efficiency, and protection against sophisticated, custom-crafted web attack techniques not yet represented in publ...

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Unifying DNS Security in Prisma Browser with Advanced DNS Resolver

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Advanced DNS Resolver Is Now Generally Available in Prisma Browser This blog is co-authored by Gokul Pokuri, Senior Product Manager, and Tom Goldberg, Senior Product Manager Enterprise security models have historically depended on a critical assumption: the underlying operating system and local network path can be trusted to route foundatio...

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Watch Now: Spark User Summit - Practical Walkthrough of Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS)

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This past October 15th, 2026, we were fortune enough to hear from two amazing speakers at Palo Alto Networks. Anish Sharma, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, CDSS and Akshay Atrey, Principal Product Manager, CDSS took some time out of their day to showcase a number of tools within the CDSS umbrella. These tools included Precision AI, num...

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Crypto Agility Starts at the CA: Accelerating Certificate Authority Support in NGTS

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NGTS now connects to more certificate authorities and works more closely with each of them. By Bozhidar Shirov, Sr. Product Manager · 10-19-2026 · 5 min read Ask a PKI team how many certificate authorities their organization relies on, and the answer is rarely one. There is a public CA for internet-facing services, a private CA for internal wo...

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Global Regulatory Mandates for Web Isolation and Secure Browsing

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For executives and technology leaders, securing the enterprise perimeter against sophisticated web-based threats while maintaining workforce productivity is no longer a best-practice conversation — it is a regulatory imperative. Governments and regulatory bodies across Asia-Pacific and North America and other countries have recognized the vulner...

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Register Now: Spark User Summit - Latest Updates and Improvements to Prisma SD-WAN FedRAMP

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Join us on November 5th, 2026 at 9:30 AM Pacific Time for this great event on new capabilities and updates coming to Prisma SD-WAN in FedRAMP. In this webinar, we will explore major platform enhancements in routing, policy, security, and simplified operations designed to streamline administration, reduce complexity, and keep your federal netwo...

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Upcoming Change: Telemetry Enablement for Eligible PAN-OS NGFWs

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Overview Palo Alto Networks is enabling device telemetry on eligible PAN-OS NGFWs to help improve threat detection, enhance visibility into device health, and accelerate support case resolution. This update is rolling out in three waves. If your firewall meets the criteria below, telemetry will be enabled automatically and no further action i...

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Securing Transport: Introducing DNS over TLS (DoT) Support for Advanced DNS Security Resolver (ADNSR)

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This blog was written by Harsh Shah, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer As enterprise networks expand across complex hybrid environments, securing Domain Name System (DNS) traffic has become a critical priority. For network operators and security teams, relying on traditional, unencrypted DNS protocols creates significant privacy and data manipu...

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Finding What You Need, Faster: Meet the New AI-Powered Search and Copilot Navigation in Strata Cloud Manager!

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This blog was written by Zamin Ali Salman, Sr. Product Manager If you manage network security day in and day out, you know that efficiency isn't just a convenience—it's a requirement. When you need to troubleshoot a policy, configure a new gateway, or find specific technical guidance, you don't have time to navigate through multiple menus or s...

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Register Now: Spark User Summit - Introducing Advanced IP Defense

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Join us on October 29, 2026 at 9:30 AM Pacific Time for an introduction and demonstration of one of the newest CDSS products, Advanced IP Defense. In this product-focused session, we introduce Advanced IP Defense, a new inline threat protection service within the Palo Alto Networks Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS) suite. Through live S...

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Spark User Summit: Prisma SD-WAN and Post-Quantum Cryptography

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On September 30th and October 1st, 2026, Fuel hosted two instances of the same event about the importance of the early adoption of post-quantum cryptography using Prisma SD-WAN and how easy it is. Our speaker Priyanka Gauravdeep and moderator Ashish Shah gave us a great overview of why you should be implementing this today instead of waiting f...

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OpenCode: Managing Token Usage, Costs, and Access Control with Prisma AIRS AI Gateway

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OpenCode is an open-source, terminal-first AI coding agent. OpenCode supports agent-based interactions, long-running tasks, and complex instructions that can span large context windows.Its model-agnostic design makes it easy to experiment. Local model support also allows OpenCode to run in air-gapped environments where sending data to external A...

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