Palo Alto Networks’ Michael Khoury joins In The Channel to walk through the ground-up redesign of the NextWave partner program – from the elimination of discount caps to the new platform adoption incentives and the CyberArk identity opportunity.
February 27, 2019Mark CoxComments Off on Palo Alto Networks unveils ‘super-EDR’ capability with Cortex platform and key Cortex XDR application
Cortex is the next-generation of Palo Alto Networks’ Application Framework, with the ability to create a much deeper data lake and analyze it more effectively. The newly announced Traps 6.0 endpoint solution contributes to this, as it now gathers data like an EDR solution for the first time.
February 15, 2019Mark CoxComments Off on New DNS security service a major highlight of PAN-OS 9.0 release
Another key software addition is a new Policy Optimizer, that uses network intelligence to find and remove legacy firewall rules that create security issues.
February 6, 2019Mark CoxComments Off on Palo Alto Networks emphasizes new services opportunities in major partner program overhaul
This is the first major ‘tweak’ of Palo Alto Networks’ partner program since its inception, and the changes are extremely significant, and multi-faceted.
January 21, 2019Mark CoxComments Off on Security in Canada going through interesting times: Palo Alto Networks Canada country manager Rob Lunney
Palo Alto Networks’ Canadian country manager talks about the challenges his company faces, how it has adapted its strategies to meet them, and what the channel needs to do to keep pace.
December 19, 2018Mark CoxComments Off on Palo Alto Networks expands Google partnership to leverage Google Cloud AI capabilities
As part of the enhanced relationship with Google, Palo Alto Networks will now run their Application Framework and GlobalProtect cloud service in the Google Cloud, as they believe its analytics capabilities are the best fit for these applications.
Aruba extends their software-defined architecture to the branch, with the new Cloud Managed 7000 Series Branch Gateways, as well as new Aruba Central abilities to manage them.
March 21, 2018Mark CoxComments Off on Palo Alto Networks brings cloud management option, new UI to Traps endpoint protection
Traps has also been better integrated with the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework, something that is likely to please channel partners. So will the increased channel enablement around this Traps release.