- Offers Preventative Approach to Stop Cyber Threats
at the Endpoint
SANTA CLARA, California,
Sept. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo
Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the leader in enterprise security,
today announced the availability of Traps, a revolutionary and
unique Advanced Endpoint Protection offering designed to prevent
sophisticated cyber attacks on endpoints, sparing IT security teams
from cumbersome remediation, patching, and often futile recovery
scrambles.
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Despite major advances in network security, endpoints remain
vulnerable to many advanced attacks, especially as increasingly
mobile workforces move outside protected enterprise networks.
Legacy endpoint security products require prior knowledge of a
threat in order to prevent it, or worse, use an approach that only
identifies a new threat after it has compromised the endpoint.
This reactive model results in a never-ending chase after the
thousands of new malware attacks that emerge each day, as well as
the expanding number of software vulnerabilities that can be used
to exploit an endpoint. These approaches offer little hope or
possibility of recovering data that has already been hijacked by an
attacker. Putting an end to the reactive run around, Traps
proactively prevents attacks on the endpoint, including unknown
malware and zero-day exploits, before they do any damage.
QUOTES
- "The key differentiator with Traps is its ability to automate
the process of protecting the endpoint. Most of the products in the
industry today largely deal with informing us that there's a
problem and little more; that leaves us to manually deal with the
effort of remediating the endpoint, takes time and leaves us
vulnerable. With Traps, that is done automatically and it is done
nearly instantaneously, which is a major win."
-- Golan Ben-Oni, CSO and SVP Network Architecture, IDT
- "The proven effectiveness of the Traps endpoint capability over
other heuristic and signature-based approaches, together with Palo
Alto Networks WildFire and next-generation firewall, makes the
secure enablement of our entire business possible."
-- Dr. Andres Rohr of RWE Supply
& Trading
- "With the introduction of Traps, we are redefining the endpoint
security market much like we did the network security market with
our next-generation firewall. Traps and our platform as a whole are
designed to revolutionize enterprise security by putting prevention
front and center, closing the door on cyber threats before they can
get in and cause damage."
-- Lee Klarich, senior vice
president of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks
Since the acquisition of Cyvera and the technology behind Traps,
Palo Alto Networks has expanded global support and services
operations to meet enterprise customer needs, and completed several
key enhancements, including:
- Integration with Palo Alto Networks WildFire – Traps blocks malware by
leveraging the full knowledge of Palo Alto Networks Threat
Intelligence Cloud;
- Added exploitation and malware prevention
modules – extends Traps support to include the latest attack
techniques; and
- Enhanced forensics – provides a rich
set of reporting for better visibility and understanding of attacks
that were prevented.
Natively Integrated Platform Extends Protection
Enterprise-wide
The integration of Traps with the Palo Alto Networks Threat
Intelligence Cloud brings security of the network and endpoint
together under a single common architecture, known as the Palo Alto
Networks enterprise security platform, and delivers unparalleled
enterprise-wide security and automated threat prevention
capabilities, reducing risk across an organization at every stage
in the attack kill chain. It also eliminates management complexity
and myopic point product-related security silos that can leave
gaping holes in an organization's security posture.
Availability
Traps Advanced Endpoint Protection, offered as a subscription
service, is available now from authorized Palo Alto Networks
channel partners. The offering is inclusive of all functionality
including exploit prevention, malware prevention through WildFire
integration, forensics, and premium support.
To learn more about Traps Advanced Endpoint Protection from
Palo Alto Networks, visit:
- The Traps microsite: http://go.paloaltonetworks.com/traps
- The Palo Alto Networks blog:
http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2014/09/traps-advanced-endpoint-protection
About Palo Alto Networks
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protecting thousands of enterprise, government, and service
provider networks from cyber threats. Unlike fragmented legacy
products, our security platform safely enables business operations
and delivers protection based on what matters most in today's
dynamic computing environments: applications, users, and content.
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