{"id":74654,"date":"2018-05-12T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=74654"},"modified":"2018-05-10T13:54:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:54:35","slug":"news-week-may-12-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/news-week-may-12-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"News of the Week: May 12, 2018"},"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>Unit 42 shared new research:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/unit42-silverterrier-update-increasingly-sophisticated-nigerian-cybercriminals-take-bigger-part-3b-bec-related-losses\/\">SilverTerrier Update: Increasingly Sophisticated Nigerian Cybercriminals Take Bigger Part of $3B BEC-Related Losses<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Meet up with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/tech-docs-rub-elbows-beacon-experts-ignite-18-usa\/\">Tech Docs team and other Beacon experts<\/a> at Ignite \u201918 USA.<\/li>\n<li>We shared what can be expected as NIS and GDPR become official this month. Get a closer look into what this means for cybersecurity:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/cso-heres-can-expect-nis-gdpr-arrive\/\">Here\u2019s What We Can Expect as NIS and GDPR Arrive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/gov-eus-network-information-security-nis-directive-goes-live-amidst-range-expanding-cybersecurity-efforts\/\">The EU\u2019s Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive Goes Live Amidst Range of Expanding Cybersecurity Efforts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming Events<\/strong><\/p>\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><div style=\"max-width:100%\" data-width=\"600\"><span class=\"ar-custom\" style=\"padding-bottom:52.5%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignnone wp-image-66442 lozad\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ignite18USEurope-facebook-shared.png\" alt=\"ignite18USEurope-facebook-shared\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Secure your spot at the cybersecurity conference of the year. Register now for Ignite \u201918:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ignite.paloaltonetworks.com\/usa?CampaignId=7010g000001IH8U&amp;utm_content=Ignite18USA&amp;utm_medium=SocailMedia&amp;utm_source=ResourceCenter\">Anaheim, CA: May 21-24, 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.paloaltonetworks.com\/Ignite18Europe\">Amsterdam, NL: October 8-10, 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/333365\">Live Demo: Preventing Security Breaches on the Endpoint<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 16, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/328934\">Ransomware\u2019s Next Steps<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 16, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Columbus, OH<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.paloaltonetworks.com\/ehome\/326680\">Virtual Ultimate Test Drive - Next Generation Firewall<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 17, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Ignite18Anaheim3\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Ignite \u201918 USA<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 21-24, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Anaheim, CA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carahevents.carahsoft.com\/Event\/Details\/56297-panw\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Securing the Digital Transformation of Critical Infrastructure Without Affecting Reliability<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 29, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Looking to meet up with other Palo Alto Networks users? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fuelusergroup.org\/page\/spark-events\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" >Fuel, the Palo Alto Networks User Group<\/a>, for opportunities to attend hands-on workshops, events and more!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch up on all the latest Palo Alto Networks news. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":42759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[5867,432,403,2684,1819,2681,2937,586],"coauthors":[1515],"class_list":["post-74654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-of-the-week","tag-beacon","tag-emea","tag-events-2","tag-gdpr","tag-ignite","tag-nis","tag-tech-docs","tag-unit-42"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Linkedin-520x320-v1-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74654","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=74654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74663,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74654\/revisions\/74663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74654"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=74654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}