{"id":7961,"date":"2015-01-24T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=7961"},"modified":"2015-12-11T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T18:19:20","slug":"palo-alto-networks-news-week-january-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/palo-alto-networks-news-week-january-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto Networks News of the Week \u2013 January 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out the top Palo Alto Networks news<\/a> from this past week.<\/p>\n

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How well do you know your Zero Days and APTs? Take the challenge<\/a> where knowledge of the worst threats out there could win you great prizes.<\/p>\n

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Unit 42 investigates<\/a> an antivirus app in the Google Play store, which our WildFire analysis cloud captured and identified as \u201cScareware,\u201d that displayed fake virus detection results to scare users into purchasing a premium service and was downloaded over a million times.<\/p>\n

Register for Ignite<\/a> and save $400 when you add the CNSE exam by January 31.<\/p>\n

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In an effort to continue to drive the performance testing conversation toward the use of application-centric metrics, Palo Alto Networks partnered with Ixia and David Newman of Network Test to develop the first ever public-facing performance test that uses applications commonly found on your network. Learn more and see the results here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out this whitepaper<\/a> to read about the shortcomings of proxies and find out how a next-generation security platform can provide faster, simpler and more comprehensive security.<\/p>\n

Need to set up a VM-Series NSX edition firewall? Use the checklist in the VM-Series Deployment Guide<\/a> for step-by-step instructions.<\/p>\n

Researchers from Unit 42 attended ShmooCon 2015 this past weekend and participated in several great presentations. Here they recap a few of their favorites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Check out highlights<\/a> of recent Palo Alto Networks coverage in China.<\/p>\n

Rick Howard explains why he thinks that the book \"Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics and Tools for the Security Practitioners<\/a>\"\u00a0by Jason Andress and Steve Winterfeld is Cybersecurity Canon-worthy, and why \"Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld<\/a>\" by Jeffrey Carr is a must-read for cybersecurity historians.<\/p>\n

Find out how to vote<\/a> on which books you want to see join Parmy Olson\u2019s We Are Anonymous in the Cybersecurity Canon. Don\u2019t see your favorite cybersecurity book on the\u00a0candidate list<\/a>? You should\u00a0submit it for consideration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are upcoming events<\/a> around the world that you should know about:<\/p>\n

Webinar Sant\u00e9<\/a> [French]<\/p>\n