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If you've visited LIVEcommunity anytime recently, you've probably seen a pop-up asking for your feedback. We've deployed this survey since April 2020 for new and returning visitors alike as a way to gather feedback from our users.    In the past six months, we've had more than 600 responses to this survey! But no amount of feedback is too much. If you see the below pop-up, please agree to take the survey—and know that your responses greatly guides and influences how we improve user experience.    If you've visited LIVEcommunity since April 2020, you've likely seen this pop-survey.   The survey is only seven questions long and takes about one minute to complete. Every answer helps us build value to all community visitors and members.    On behalf of the LIVEcommunity team, THANK YOU! We value each and every one of you.    ... View more

We value all of our community voices and want to thank all each of our visitors who have participated in the LIVEcommunity community survey.   If you've visited LIVEcommunity anytime recently, you've probably seen a pop-up asking for your feedback. We've deployed this survey since April 2020 as a way to garner better understand and improve visitors' experience.    We want to extend a special thank you to everyone who has filled out the survey; in the past six months, we've had more than 600 responses! Your answers are cataloged, reviewed, and considered by LIVEcommunity team members with an aim for constant improvement.   If you've visited LIVEcommunity since April 2020, you've likely seen this pop-survey.   The survey has seven questions and takes about one minute to complete. If you haven't answered this short questionnaire already — or it's been awhile (the survey triggers every 90 days) — please consider filling it out next time around.   Your insight helps us serve our members the best we can! Thank you for your input and participation in our global community.    ... View more

  Welcome to our May 2022 Rewind, where we review some of LIVEcommunity’s biggest headlines from the past month!  In May, we published new technology pages, announced ZTNA 2.0, shared info about Ignite '22 🎉, and more! Read on to learn about LIVEcommunity’s May 2022 highlights.  Reimagining the Future: Ignite 2022       After a few years of Ignite taking place virtually, we are so happy to say that we will finally be able to see you all face-to-face for Ignite 2022!   Palo Alto Networks' annual security conference will be held December 12th through December 15th in Las Vegas, Nevada—and there will be no shortage of imaginative developments and fascinating, of-the-moment topics to cover. In fact, we hope this year's Ignite conference will be the best yet.   The call for papers for Ignite '22 will be open from June 14 through August 9, 2022. Palo Alto Networks is looking for speakers and presenters with highly technical backgrounds who can share their experience and expertise around groundbreaking new threat research, innovative best practices, and next-gen cybersecurity technologies.   Please be sure to stay tuned for when Call for Papers opens, and check out the Ignite ’22 call for papers FAQ if you have any questions.   Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) 2.0 is Here   The security landscape has changed drastically in the past few years and cyberattacks have become common, near daily events. Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) approaches emerged to address the challenges caused by legacy security solutions—but the first generation of these solutions) has some critical limitations.  With the new and improved ZTNA 2.0 approach, delivered from Prisma Access, Palo Alto Networks remedies the shortcomings of ZTNA 1.0 by incorporating these upgrades. LIVEcommunity Has a New Page: Best Practice Assessment Plus (BPA+)       We've just added a new page called Best Practice Assessment Plus Configuration Wizard page, which you can find under Collaboration > Tools in the navigation bar.   BPA+ is a step-by-step configuration wizard that provides an intuitive, easy-to-use interface to configure firewalls to align with best practices. This tool takes the results of the BPA and expedites the remediation process by outputting commands that can be easily pasted into any instance of PAN-OS and committed.   On the Best Practice Assessment Plus page, you’ll find videos—including an overview of the product—as well informative blogs, frequently asked questions, release notes, and datasheets.    Okyo Garde Enterprise Edition is Now Available   A new product from Palo Alto Networks, Okyo Garde Enterprise Edition, extends secure access service edge (SASE) to employees' home network. Okyo Garde Enterprise Edition was designed with a Zero Trust model to safely and privately secure all devices in the home to provide the same peace of mind while working from home as you would in the office. Check out LIVEcommunity’s new product page for Okyo Garde Enterprise Edition now!   New Digital Learnings Added in Beacon       Interested in Palo Alto Networks’ training? From Cloud NGFW for AWS to Prisma Cloud, check out the new digital learnings that were added to Beacon, our education platform, this past month.  Tips & Tricks: Leveraging Host Information Profile (HIP)   Solutions guru @kiwi recently updated one of LIVEcommunity's most-read Tips & Tricks blogs about how to leverage Host Information Profile (HIP)! If you want to learn more about the ins and outs of Host Information Profiles, how it functions in GlobalProtect, and how to access this technology, be sure to check out his blog. New How-to Videos for Cloud NGFW for AWS!     We're thrilled to have these new videos on LIVEcommunity’s Cloud NGFW for AWS Help Center. Cloud NGFW for AWS is a Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) service from Palo Alto Networks that simplifies and strengthens the security of deployments in AWS. Visit the Cloud NGFW for AWS video board to see all the new how-to tutorials we have. Palo Alto SaaS Security and Its Benefits as a Next-Gen CASB Service   This blog on CASB solution is written by one of our LIVEcommunity’s Cyber Elite experts, @nikoolayy1. Read this article to learn why Nikolay’s years of experience with different CASB/SaaS solutions has led him to favor Palo Alto Networks products above others.    May 2022 LIVEcommunity Member Spotlight: @BPry For the May 2022 Member Spotlight, we’d like to applaud @BPry for his participation and engagement in the LIVEcommunity. Since joining the community in 2016, he has written 5197 posts, received 1680 likes, and authored 782 solutions. Thank you @BPry for your participation and contribution to LIVEcommunity!    You're now fully briefed on LIVEcommunity's May 2022 highlights! If this was helpful, be sure to give this blog a thumbs up. See you next month!   ... View more

Learn how Cloud NGFW integration with AWS Firewall Manager enables simple and consistent firewall policy management across multiple AWS accounts and VPCs.     ... View more

This video shows how easy it is to use Cloud NGFW to secure your AWS deployments and prevent attackers from exploiting the Log4j vulnerability.     ... View more

Solutions guru @kiwi recently updated one of LIVEcommunity's most-read Tips & Tricks blogs about how to leverage Host Information Profile (HIP).   If you want to learn more about the ins and outs of Host Information Profiles, how it functions in GlobalProtect, and how to access this technology, be sure to check out "Leveraging Host Information Profile (HIP)."   Thanks for reading! ... View more

  Mark your calendars for Ignite 2022   Ignite ’22 will be held in Las Vegas from December 12-15, 2022   Call for papers! Break out your big ideas. The call for presentations opens in spring 2022. Stay tuned via the official page for Palo Alto Networks Ignite.   ... View more

Incident Report for Content Publishing is Failing: Palo Alto Networks Cloud Services — If you are unable to retrieve new updates for devices, please stay up-to-date on the issue and its resolution via the status page. ... View more

  Palo Alto Networks was named a North America Channel Partner of the Year at Intel Vision 2022! Read the full announcement here.   ... View more

These are the new cybersecurity courses and trainings added to Beacon, Palo Alto Networks learning platform, in April 2022.   Did you know that Beacon, Palo Alto Networks’ online hub for educational resources, regularly publishes new trainings and courses?   Each month, new technical assets are published to Beacon, adding to its library of educational content to help our customers confidently install, deploy, and optimize Palo Alto Networks products. Learn more via LIVEcommunity's Education Services page.   Here are all the digital learnings that were published in Beacon in April 2022:   Cloud NGFW for AWS Published April 11, 2022; Length: 1 hour and 40 minutes   The Palo Alto Networks' Cloud NGFW for AWS course provides an overview of Cloud NGFW and concepts related to the Cloud NGFW deployment and configuration in AWS. This course also describes the options for deploying a Cloud NGFW for AWS and how a Cloud NGFW secures inbound, outbound, and east-west traffic within AWS, and how to implement rulestacks and rules. It provides learners with a basic overview of Cloud NGFW used to provide on-demand cloud computing and shows learners how to configure and deploy a Cloud NGFW for AWS.   PSE Strata: PAN-OS 10.2 Published April 14, 2022; Length: 25 minutes   This course describes the key innovations and their benefits included in the PAN-OS 10.2 release and it also describes the updates related to management, decryption, and Panorama.   Prisma Cloud Image Analysis Sandbox Four total courses published in April; lengths vary   These four digital learning courses will teach you how Cloud Workload Protection in Prisma Cloud delivers flexible protection to secure cloud VMs, containers, and serverless functions.     ... View more