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Security Effectiveness

Palo Alto Networks advanced endpoint protect Traps achieved the rating of “Recommend” in the 2018 NSS Labs Advanced Endpoint Protection (AEP) Test. This test aims to determine how effectively the AEP product can protect against a threat, regardless of the infection vector or method of obfuscation. The AEP test evaluated several vendors ability to detect, prevent, continuously monitor and take action against malware, exploits, evasions and blended threats.

By combining multiple methods of prevention, Traps stands apart in its ability to protect endpoints. Traps blocks security breaches and successful ransomware attacks that leverage malware and exploits, known or unknown, before they can compromise an endpoint. The NSS AEP test validates Palo Alto Network’s prevention first philosophy.

 

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Applying Prevention Capabilities to Defeat Cyberattackers

We continue to learn more about measuring prevention readiness and making threat prevention an organic part of IT architecture. As an element of this, we are building confidence that our mission at Palo Alto Networks® – to protect our digital way of life – is achievable.



When we speak with IT and security leaders, we consistently observe a couple of things:
1. They lack confidence that they know what is happening in their enterprises.
2. They look to the cybersecurity community – which includes us – to help them create modern architecture strategies based on prevention. The legacy best-of-breed approach and auditing relationship between IT and security professionals fails to protect organizations from successful attacks.

Given the challenges in information security today, both observations make sense. Collectively, we have a significant amount of
intelligence about the attackers we face, including:
• Their techniques
• Their attack vectors
• Their tools
• Indicators of compromise

 

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A Deeper Look at Growing Threats to Mobile Networks and Subscribers

As the digital experience increasingly moves to mobile devices, so do the cyber activities of malicious actors. Android-based malware threats continue to grow while Android-based devices escalate in quantity, IoT adoption expands, and mobile traffic grows exponentially. Infected devices are not only a threat to subscribers — they can be recruited into botnets to attack mobile network  infrastructure and damage service availability. Evidence of these threats can be found in service provider networks.

Operators are faced with the difficult challenge of separating out the hidden quantities of malicious traffic from massive volumes of mobile data that they transport to determine which threats can be ignored and which compel action. Given the rapidly evolving threat landscape and operator cost pressures to increase revenue and migrate to next-generation networks, this is an enormous challenge indeed.

Will the threat landscape for mobile networks and devices reach the attack volume witnessed with Windows® devices and enterprise networks? We believe the answer is “yes,” and this report provides compelling evidence that the trend is well underway, drawing from multiple research and analysis sources.

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