{"id":93971,"date":"2018-10-26T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=93971"},"modified":"2018-10-26T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T17:02:02","slug":"partner-channel-scoop-october-26-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/partner-channel-scoop-october-26-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel Scoop: October 26, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sit back, relax and enjoy this week\u2019s Channel Scoop. As the quarter comes to a close, we\u2019ll be brief with a recap of highlights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Quarterly NextWave partner webinar. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/partners\/nextwave-partner-portal\/partner-program\/events\">Register today<\/a>. Don\u2019t miss this 30-minute webinar where Karl Soderlund will highlight the industry evolution and vast services opportunities emerging for NextWave partners.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There\u2019s always an upsell opportunity<\/strong>. 50% of the Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall installed-base have not yet purchased a WildFire subscription. This leaves unprotected organizations vulnerable to attacks from unknown threats, and it creates a huge opportunity for you. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/partners\/nextwave-partner-portal\/help-me-market\/campaigns\/wildfire-upsell\">Access the campaign assets<\/a> and upsell current customers to WildFire.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fake Flash updaters push cryptocurrency miners.<\/strong> In most cases, fake Flash updates pushing malware are not very stealthy. In recent years, such imposters have often been poorly-disguised malware executables or script-based downloaders designed to install cryptocurrency miners, information stealers, or ransomware. If a victim runs such poorly-disguised malware on a vulnerable Windows host, no visible activity happens, unless the fake updater is pushing ransomware. However, a recent type of fake Flash update has implemented additional deception.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/unit42-fake-flash-updaters-push-cryptocurrency-miners\/\">Read more<\/a> from Unit 42.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Traps cloud services operations online course.<\/strong> Through this new self-paced course, learn how to configure cloud-based Traps management service and install Traps endpoint components, build policy rules and much more. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/EDU-190\">Access the course<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Magnifier self-paced course.<\/strong> Magnifier automatically detects and reports post-intrusion threats by identifying good or bad behavior from hosts and endpoints on your network. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/EDU-160\">Access the course<\/a> to learn more about the first cloud application that runs in the Palo Alto Networks Application Framework.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch up on the latest partner news in this week's Channel Scoop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":462,"featured_media":26421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4968],"class_list":["post-93971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-partners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PAN-channel-scoop-banner-498x269-v2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93971","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\/462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93973,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93971\/revisions\/93973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93971"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=93971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}