Global investment firm Francisco Partners has announced the appointment of Manny Rivelo, a more than 30-year executive in security and information technology sectors, as the new CEO of Forcepoint in a string of executive appointments after it completed the acquisition of the cybersecurity platforms developer from Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX).
Read More »Palo Alto Networks Strikes $800M Deal for Expanse; Nikesh Arora Quoted
Santa Clara, California-based Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) has agreed to acquire attack surface management company Expanse for approximately $800M as part of efforts to expand its cybersecurity offerings.
Read More »Palo Alto Networks’ Rick Howard: Agencies Should Include Legacy System Security in Cyber Strategy
Rick Howard, chief security officer at Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), said agencies can avoid complexity by leveraging the same security platform that they already have deployed to protect their perimeter, their mobile devices, and their data centers in the cloud-based services they are moving to. He refers to these environments as …
Read More »Richard Ledgett, Christopher Painter, Michael Brown Named Palo Alto Networks Advisers
Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) has added Richard Ledgett, former deputy director at the National Security Agency, and Christopher Painter, former top cybersecurity official at the State Department, to its public sector advisory council to help shape the company’s cyber strategy and offer advice on security and technological needs of …
Read More »Palo Alto Networks’ Rick Howard: Agencies Should Consider DevOps’ Role in Adaptive Cyber Strategies
Rick Howard, chief security officer at Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), has said agencies that aim to develop and implement strategies to safeguard information technology systems from cyber threats should adopt DevOps. Howard wrote that DevOps’ link to automation and cloud technology has implications for agencies’ adaptive cybersecurity strategies and …
Read More »Palo Alto Networks’ Rick Howard: ‘Automatic Orchestration’ Can Aid Agencies’ Cyber Defense Efforts
Rick Howard, chief security officer at Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), has said government agencies with several cybersecurity tools should adopt the “automatic orchestration” approach that works to consolidate and manage all those tools through a common platform. Howard wrote that such a platform works to help agencies gain visibility …
Read More »Carahsoft to Market Palo Alto Networks IT Security Tool to the Public Sector
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 18, 2016 — Carahsoft has agreed to be a federal government market distributor of Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and offer the latter’s information technology security platform to the public sector, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Palo Alto Networks’ Next Generation Security Platform is designed to leverage on cloud, network …
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