{"id":45204,"date":"2017-10-07T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=45204"},"modified":"2017-10-06T13:17:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:17:51","slug":"palo-alto-networks-news-week-october-7-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/palo-alto-networks-news-week-october-7-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto Networks News of the Week: October 7, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you miss any of this week\u2019s Palo Alto Networks action? Don\u2019t worry \u2013 we\u2019ve rounded up our top news and views right here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This week, Palo Alto Networks introduced expanded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/public-cloud-security-capabilities\/\">public cloud security capabilities with Aperture<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Unit 42 was busy with new threat research:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/unit42-freemilk-highly-targeted-spear-phishing-campaign\/\">FreeMilk: A Highly Targeted Spear Phishing Campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/threat-brief-conversation-hijacking-spear-phishing\/\">Threat Brief: Conversation Hijacking Spear Phishing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/threat-brief-understanding-kernel-apc-attacks\/\">Threat Brief: Understanding Kernel APC Attacks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Eila Shargh\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/2-minute-threat-brief-freemilk-conversation-hijacking-spear-phishing-campaign\/\">Two Minute Threat Brief<\/a> dives into spear phishing and how you can stay safe.<\/li>\n<li>We got a behind the scenes look with Palo Alto Networks engineering and the exciting world of probes in our new blog series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/engineers-work-active-monitoring-probes\/\">Engineers at Work<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Cybersecurity Canon\u2019s \u201cPeople\u2019s Choice Awards\u201d is well underway. Check out these two new Cybersecurity Canon reviews:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/cybersecurity-canon-the-cathedral-bazaar\/\">The Cybersecurity Canon: The Cathedral &amp; the Bazaar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/cybersecurity-canon-data-goliath-hidden-battles-collect-data-control-world\/\">The Cybersecurity Canon: Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Palo Alto Networks Chairman and CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/watch-mark-mclaughlin-talks-breach-prevention-at-cnbcs-cambridge-cyber-summit\/\">Mark McLaughlin talked breach prevention<\/a> at CNBC\u2019s Cambridge Cyber Summit.<\/li>\n<li>Rick Howard shared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/making-diversity-priority-practical-advice-achieving-diverse-cybersecurity-industry\/\">practical advice for making diversity a priority<\/a> in cybersecurity.<\/li>\n<li>Palo Alto Networks racecar driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/next-gen-drive-palo-alto-networks-racecar-driver-makes-history-at-watkins-glen\/\">Rob Megennis wrapped up an impressive season<\/a>. Watch his highlights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/events.paloaltonetworks.com\/\">upcoming events<\/a> around the world that you should know about. Don\u2019t forget to register for our <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/event-calendar\">events calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/272400\">Virtual Ultimate Test Drive \u2013 Migration Process<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 9, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/272401\">Virtual Ultimate Test Drive - Advanced Endpoint Protection<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 10, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/282498\">Virtual Ultimate Test Drive - Next Generation Firewall<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 10, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/269462\">Safely Enable SaaS Applications with Aperture<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 10, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.paloaltonetworks.com\/TrapsLiveDemo101117\">Live Demo: Preventing Security Breaches on the Endpoint<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 11, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/272812\">Get Hands-on with the VM-Series on Microsoft Azure<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 11, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Irvine, CA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ignite.paloaltonetworks.com\/federal\/sm\">Palo Alto Networks Federal Ignite<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 23-24, 2017<\/li>\n<li>Washington D.C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch up on the top Palo Alto Networks news of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":45207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[1440,251,4644,403,4611,191,345,1895,586],"coauthors":[1515],"class_list":["post-45204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-of-the-week","tag-aperture","tag-cybersecurity-canon","tag-engineers-at-work","tag-events-2","tag-freemilk","tag-mark-mclaughlin","tag-rick-howard","tag-rob-megennis","tag-unit-42"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Linkedin-520x320-v1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45204","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=45204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45231,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45204\/revisions\/45231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45204"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=45204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}