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Proposed Podcast Title: Stay One Step Ahead of Adversaries with PAN-OS 11.0 Nova    Proposed Abstract:  Cyber threats continue to increase in volume and complexity, with threat actors developing new ways to avoid detection — including highly evasive malware. To help organizations outpace these evolving threats, Palo Alto Networks announces PAN-OS® 11.0 Nova, the latest version of its Industry-leading PAN-OS software, unleashing 50+ product updates and innovations. Nova is a leap forward in network security. It stops 26% more zero-day malware than traditional sandboxes, detects 60% more injection attacks, simplifies security architecture, and helps organizations adopt cybersecurity best practices. The bottom line is that Nova helps keep organizations one step ahead of attackers. Join Palo Alto Networks experts to learn how you can stay one step ahead of zero-day threats with Nova.   - Hear about the new innovations in PAN-OS 11.0 Nova that offer security against Zero Day threats with new Advanced WildFire and enhancements in Advanced Threat Prevention, simplified and consistent security with Web Proxy and NG-CASB and strong cyber posture with enhancements in AIOps. - You'll also get a peek into our five newest fourth-generation ML-Powered NGFWs that offer over 5X performance enhancement.       ... View more

We’re proud to announce the availability of AIOps for NGFW 2.0 to help customers improve the efficiency, health, performance and maximize their security posture. This release includes new features, such as increased ability to visualize and report the interplay between users, applications and threats across their entire deployment.   Here are some key features part of the AIOps for NGFW 2.0 release:   1. With AIOps for NGFW 2.0 Free, customers can continually assess how well their NGFW configs adhere to Palo Alto Networks best practice recommendations with Proactive Best Practice Assessments. BPA contains 200 best practice checks that also align with CIS’s Critical Security Controls (CSC). With AIOps for NGFW - Premium, customers can get the assessment on the candidate config before committing a change on Panorama, so the config is always in line with best practice recommendations.      2. Maximize your security outcomes with the Adoption of Security Capabilities and Subscriptions : This feature in AIOps for NGFW - Free maximizes the ROI on your security investment by tracking the adoption lifecycle of the configured NGFW features and PAN-OS security services.      3. Avoid a business disruption due to Certificate Expiry : Several features on your firewall use certificates to authenticate the network session. Failure to detect an upcoming certificate that needs renewal puts that feature at risk, potentially causing a business interruption. AIOps for NGFW - Premium will proactively alert you to the upcoming renewal and determine what feature is at risk, helping prioritize the renewals.      4. Patch your firewalls on time and with high confidence, with precise Vulnerability detection capabilities: The improved vulnerability detection factors in the features enabled in the config to precisely identify impacted firewalls, thus reducing overall alert volume and prioritizing remediation.      5. The causality chain displays all the entities that WildFire identified in the attack. The chain also shows their relationships and details on actions and behaviors to facilitate analysis of an incident(s). They display process milestones to validate the operations and detection reasons for classifying a file.   All these features are available for you to see in the AIOps Premium version. Check out the latest AIOps for NGFW release notes now. N ot activated your free instance of AIOps for NGFW yet? Here’s how to get started with AIOps for NGFW .    Co-author:  Viswesh Ananthakrishnan (@Viswesh)    NOTABLE EVENTS AND NEWS Web Conference:   Oct 5   | ISSA webinar - Using AI Operations to Optimize Your NGFW in a Snap  Oct 20 | Learn about AIOps on What’s Brewing in Network Security Meet with us in person at these events: December 12-15 : Ignite Conference Register for an AIOps 90-Day Free Trial to unlock the Premium features today! ... View more

Sign up for Episode 5 of Nebula  Tech Deep Dive Miniseries - " What is AIOps, Optimizing Your NGFW in a Snap" on  July 7, 2022 @ 9:00 AM (PDT) | 4:00 PM (UTC)    Network security operations remain a laborious and reactive process. Investing in sophisticated and expensive security equipment only pays when that equipment is used properly. Misconfigured security devices are extremely difficult to identify, and lead to breaches while undetected traffic patterns can cause performance issues that can slow or stop network traffic which can lower productivity.   In March, we introduced the industry’s first AIOps for NGFWs that revolutionizes firewall operations with ML-powered insights for the best security posture and optimal health. The NEW  AIOps for NGFW reduces time to detect network security gaps by up to 99% and uses machine learning to predict up to 51% of disruptions to NGFWs before they impact the firewalls.    In this episode, you will hear directly from Product Manager how AIOps for NGFWs  Addresses top operational challenges such as misconfigurations and best practice compliance Helps maximize your firewall investment Reduces downtime Keeps your business operations running smoothly Product Demo  Duration - 1 hour Audience - Open to all. Content will be geared toward Network Security and Network Operations Practitioners  ... View more

How to prepare for PAN-OS end-of-life and migration.   IMPORTANT   PAN-OS 8.1 and 9.0 will end-of-life on March 1, 2022 , and  PAN-OS 10.0 will be end-of-life on July 16, 2022.      To continue to receive uninterrupted technical support, timely bug fixes and maintenance releases, and support for content signatures, please migrate to a more recent PAN-OS version. Learn about upcoming end-of-life events on our End of Life Summary . For additional visibility into what can be expected during end of life events, please reference our end-of-life policies .    Reach out to your Palo Alto Networks rep to kick-start migration conversations to move to the preferred release of PAN-OS 9.1 or PAN-OS 10.1.    Find out what’s new in PAN-OS 9.1 , PAN-OS 10.0 , and PAN-OS 10.1 . Update to new versions to take advantage of over 100+ security innovations that range from increasing security efficacy to simplifying management.    FAQ   Q: What is Palo Alto Networks End-of-Life (EOL) support policy?   Customers on End-of-Life (EOL) PAN-OS versions do not get technical support, content updates, bug fixes, maintenance releases, workarounds, and patches for critical bugs.   The support duration for our major releases (see definition below) is 24 months from the date of release, and all minor releases (see definition below) in a major release train will be supported for 42 months from the date of release. Refer to the “PAN-OS Version Support Policy” section here for more details.    Q: What do these key terms mean? Major feature release: Where each release includes three numbers (x.y.z) : The “x” represents a major feature release, which usually includes a large number of new features and/or significant software architectural changes. Major releases have y = 0.  Minor feature release: The “y” in the x.y.z nomenclature above represents a minor feature release, which usually includes a small to medium number of new features and typically minimal software architecture changes. Minor releases have y > 0.  Maintenance release: The “z” in the x.y.z nomenclature above represents a maintenance release, which only includes bug fixes. Examples:   PAN-OS release  (where x is the major feature release) Support Duration  x.0.0 Supported for 24 months.  All maintenance releases e.g., x.0.1 go end-of-life at the same time as x.0.0 release x.1.0  Supported for 42 months.  All maintenance releases e.g., x.1.1 go end-of-life at the same time as x.1.0 release x.2.0 Supported for 42 months All maintenance releases e.g., x.2.1 go end-of-life at the same time as x.2.0 release Q: How is software support impacted if a PAN-OS release has reached the end of support, but an end of sale hardware platform must run the same PAN-OS release until it reaches its end of life?  In this case, the software will continue to be supported for that specific hardware platform until the platform’s published end of life date.  As an example, PAN-OS 8.1 will get updates as we would normally do for any mature release until the PA-5000 end of life.  Additional Information: PAN-OS 10.1.3 achieves Preferred status:  PAN-OS 10.1.3 has officially received the preferred status for Firewalls and PAN-OS 10.1.3-h1 for Panorama.     What's in it for you? With PAN-OS 10.1, you can: Simplify identity and authentication for adopting Zero Trust with Cloud Identity Engine Secure your SaaS and web application access, prevent new and emerging phishing and DNS attacks, and more  Plus,  you get 70+ new features introduced in PAN-OS 10.0 like prevention from unknown file and web-based threats with real-time protections with Machine Learning, comprehensive IoT security, data loss prevention, simplified decryption including TLS 1.3 support, that you can use on your Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation firewalls   Talk to your account rep or check out this page for more information.    ... View more