April 2024 Rewind: LIVEcommunity Highlights

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Welcome to our April 2024 Rewind, where we review some of LIVEcommunity’s biggest headlines from the past month!

 

In April, we featured a ton of articles and blogs on: our recent member spotlight, the release of Threat Vector podcast episodes - catch up now!, how to register for the upcoming Precision AI™ and upcoming InterSECt 2024 events, the latest Product-centric blogs, new PANCast episodes and a lot more! Read on to see the community's April 2024 highlights. 

 

Community Highlights

 

Recent Member Spotlight

Read highlights of our most engaged contributors with our monthly LIVEcommunity Member Spotlight!

 

 

Other Interesting Highlights

 

Precision AI™: Unveiling the Future of AI & Cybersecurity - Register Now!

Join us as we dive into cutting-edge technologies and unveil the latest advancements in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Discover how AI is changing the face of cyberthreats and is revolutionizing the way we safeguard our digital landscapes. Engage with industry leaders, experts and visionaries as we explore the transformative potential of AI-driven security solutions. Don't miss your chance to be part of this groundbreaking event on the future of cybersecurity. Read more to learn about this virtual event…

 

The Next Chapter of SASE Begins: Register Today for InterSECt 2024!

Join us at InterSECt 2024, a 2-hour virtual experience, where industry leaders, tech visionaries and cybersecurity professionals gather at the intersection of security and innovation. You’ll learn how the latest advancements in SASE are leveraging the power of AI to deliver industry-leading security, while meeting complex user and operational needs to drive meaningful results.

 

Product Insights

 

Playbook of the Week: Streamlining Suspicious Data Upload Alert Investigations 

Data exfiltration involves covertly transferring sensitive data outside a network, posing serious risks like privacy breaches. Investigating such breaches is challenging and time-consuming. Introducing Cortex XDR - Large Upload playbook—a solution to streamline the investigation of large upload alerts, enhancing efficiency in addressing data exfiltration threats.. Learn more in our blog…

 

Playbook of the Week: Prisma Cloud Compute - Compliance Alert v2

Maintaining compliance with regulations and security standards is paramount for organizations in today's dynamic and ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape. However, simply receiving alerts about compliance issues is often not enough to effectively mitigate risks. To address this challenge, we are thrilled to introduce an enhanced use case for handling compliance alerts from Prisma Cloud Compute in Cortex XSOAR. Read more in our blog…

 

On Credible and Cyber-Contextual Labeling 

Machine learning (ML) powered methods are rapidly taking over the cybersecurity medium, performing a variety of complex tasks, including detection, prevention, and prioritization. Albeit not required by all methods, accurate labels of the training data at hand are generally necessitated to allow appropriate control over the underlying models’ characteristics and infusion of cybersecurity context. Nevertheless, the generation of credible labels in the cybersecurity domain embodies a great challenge that has yet to be properly addressed. Learn more in our blog…

 

XSOAR 8 On-Premises Now Available!

We are pleased to announce the support for on-premises deployments for XSOAR 8. New customers of Cortex XSOAR 8 who require an on-premises deployment for policy or regulatory reasons can now take advantage of the latest features of Cortex XSOAR. Find out more in our blog…

 

Confirm Attack Surface Vulnerabilities with Cortex Xpanse Attack Surface Testing

As organizations’ attack surfaces continue to grow, we’ve seen that traditional vulnerability testing is insufficient to secure an organization’s externally-facing assets. Conventional vulnerability management (VM) tools lack a comprehensive inventory of known and unknown external assets. This means that external vulnerability testing is incomplete as well as manual and infrequent. Find out more in our blog…

 

New Advanced URL Filtering category: Marijuana

Palo Alto Networks will release a new Advanced URL Filtering category called “Marijuana”. Action may be required. The default action for this new Marijuana category is “allow.” If you currently alert on or block marijuana websites (using a combination of “Health and Medicine” and “Abused Drugs”), you will need to ensure that you set the action to “alert” or “block” as appropriate for this new Marijuana category. Find out more in our blog…

 

What’s Next in Cortex — XSIAM for Cloud and Other Innovations

Security operations teams are tasked with solving a variety of different challenges. They face the complexities of protecting growing and dynamic cloud environments; investigating and resolving security incidents quickly; proactively managing risks, preventing the next major breach; and so much more. Find out more in our blog… 

 

Detect, Log, and Block Unsanctioned Post-Quantum Ciphers (PQC) with Threat IDs on PANW Firewalls

The Quantum Threat of a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer’s (CRQC) ability to break existing encryption and break the security and privacy fabric is one of the most significant threats we’ve encountered since cryptography became widely accepted about four decades ago. As a result, the United States White House has issued a mandate for companies to prepare now (!) for a post-quantum world. Find out more in our blog… 

 

Palo Alto VM Series Active/Passive High Availability on Google Cloud

In this video you will learn how to deploy and configure Palo Alto VM Series in Active/Passive High Availability on Google Cloud Platform. This also demonstrates Session synchronization capability of VM Series firewall on GCP. Find out more by watching the video… 

 

Threat Brief: Operation MidnightEclipse, Post-Exploitation Activity Related to CVE-2024-3400 (Update...

This threat brief is frequently updated as new threat intelligence is available for us to share. The full update log is at the end of this post and offers the fullest account of all changes made. Updated April 24 to include a link to the relevant Customer Support Portal Knowledge Base article. Find out more in our blog… 

 

Leading with a Prevention-First Approach for Cloud Detection and Response

As cloud computing continues to evolve and becomes the ad-hoc standard for many of the world’s largest enterprises, we also see attack surfaces growing and the escalation of cyberthreats targeting the cloud and traditional enterprise assets. These trends have necessitated a paradigm shift toward more advanced security measures in cloud security practices. Find out more in our blog… 

 

New PANCast Episodes Are Out!

 

PANCast™ is a Palo Alto Networks podcast that provides actionable insights from cybersecurity experts to customers, helping them ensure each day is more secure than the one before it. Visit our PANCast™ homepage to learn more and watch our previous podcasts in this series.

 

 

New Threat Vector Podcast Episodes - Available Now!

 

Threat Vector is your compass in the world of cyberthreats. We unravel cyber threat intelligence secrets through engaging discussions, expert interviews, and insightful analysis. Hear our unique threat intelligence, cutting-edge techniques, and real-world case studies. We'll equip you with the knowledge and insight to proactively prepare and stay ahead in the ever-evolving threat landscape.

 

 

Catch Up on Previous Threat Vector Podcast Episodes Now

 

April ‘24 Discussion Highlight: Posts With Accepted Solutions

 

Nominated Discussions help LIVEcommunity Solutions Engineers highlight a discussion that has an Accepted Solution, and turn it into an article with additional helpful information, documentation, and clarity! Here are the Nominated Discussions we published this past month:

 

 

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