Palo Alto Networks Chief Security Officer for Middle East and Africa Haider Pasha speaks to TECHx about IoT security

Palo Alto Networks has added machine learning (ML) and analytics features to CloudGenix SD-WAN to simplify network operations and improve capacity planning. For instance, the system automatically identifies common root cause events when there are multiple event alarms.

47% of Middle East IT decision makers said that at their organisation, IoT devices are segmented on a separate network from the one used for primary devices and key business applications.

The addition of the Cortex XSOAR Marketplace enhances customers’ ability to discover, share and make greater use of automation across their organization. The marketplace allows them to tap into an extensive community of industry experts.

While analyzing an attack against a Middle Eastern telecommunications organization, we discovered a variant of an OilRig-associated tool we call RDAT using a novel email-based command and control (C2) channel that relied on a technique known as steganography to hide commands and data within bitmap images attached to emails.