{"id":22648,"date":"2016-12-17T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=22648"},"modified":"2016-12-16T10:49:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T18:49:15","slug":"palo-alto-networks-news-week-december-17-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/palo-alto-networks-news-week-december-17-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto Networks News of the Week \u2013 December 17, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you miss any of this week\u2019s Palo Alto Networks action? Don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ve rounded up the top news right here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our Cybersecurity Predictions series continued with sure things and long shots for cybersecurity in 2017. This week\u2019s predictions include:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/2017-cybersecurity-predictions-machine-learning-ai-driven-frameworks-shape-cloud-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">Machine Learning and AI-Driven Frameworks Shape Cloud Security<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/2017-cybersecurity-predictions-price-ransomware-continues-increase-asia-pacific\/\" target=\"_blank\">Price of Ransomware Continues to Increase in Asia-Pacific<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/2017-cybersecurity-predictions-service-providers-confront-iot-security\/\" target=\"_blank\">Service Providers Confront IoT Security<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Unit 42 explored the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/unit42-let-ride-sofacy-groups-dealerschoice-attacks-continue\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest DealersChoice attacks<\/a> attributed to the Sofacy group.<\/li>\n<li>This week we announced our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/partner-congratulations-uk-ireland-partner-award-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\">UK and Ireland partner award winners<\/a>. A big congrats to all!<\/li>\n<li>Ron Myers shared the top takeaways from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/q2-fy17-nextwave-huddle-top-5-takeaways\/\" target=\"_blank\">Q2 FY17 NextWave Huddle<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Karin Shopen elaborated on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/what-is-automated-cybersecurity\/\" target=\"_blank\">importance of automated cybersecurity<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Unit 42 researchers announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/unit42-palo-alto-networks-unit-42-vulnerability-research-december-2016-disclosures\/\" target=\"_blank\">discovery of six new vulnerabilities<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/events.paloaltonetworks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming events<\/a> around the world that you should know about. Don\u2019t forget to register for our new <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/event-calendar\" target=\"_blank\">events calendar<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/207954\" target=\"_blank\">Live Webinar: Safely Enable SaaS Applications with Aperture<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>December 20, 2016<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/219368\" target=\"_blank\">Cyber Shamoon 2: Return of the Disttrack Wiper \u2013 Live Webinar<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>December 20, 2016<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/219667\" target=\"_blank\">Ransomware Prevented<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>December 20, 2016<\/li>\n<li>Melbourne, Australia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/211661\" target=\"_blank\">NGFW: Next Generation Firewall Live Demo<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>December 21, 2016<\/li>\n<li>Online Event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you miss any of this week\u2019s Palo Alto Networks action? Don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ve rounded up the top news right here. Our Cybersecurity Predictions series continued with sure things and long shots &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":21531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[109,2805,510,1818,221,937,586],"coauthors":[1515],"class_list":["post-22648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-of-the-week","tag-cloud","tag-dealerschoice","tag-iot","tag-partners","tag-ransomware","tag-service-provider","tag-unit-42"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/blog-generic-banner-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22654,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648\/revisions\/22654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22648"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}