In part 1 of this double-header, we look at the build and configuration tasks for the conference. — It’s been called one of the most dangerous networks in the world, and there are many good reasons why each Black Hat conference has its own IT infrastructure built from the ground up. There are training classes, where attendees learn offensive security techniques, from hacking infrastructure to attacking the Linux…

Busy modernizing your applications? One thing you can’t cut corners on is the security aspect. Today, we will discuss network security — inserting inbound, outbound, and VPC-to-VPC security for your traffic flows, to be precise, ​​without compromising DevOps speed and agility. When it comes to network security for cloud-native applications…

I cannot reach www.isitthefirewall.com…!! Must be the firewall!! Sounds familiar? We’ve all been there. If you were that lonely firewall administrator who tried to defend the good ol’ firewall, congratulations for making it this far. …

It started out as a simple idea — to improve the documentation experience for the many open-source projects at Palo Alto Networks. Up until that point (and still to this day) our open source projects were documented in the traditional fashion: the ubiquitous README.md and the occasional Read the Docs…

User-ID and External Dynamic Lists (EDL’s) are probably the most commonly used PAN-OS features to share external IP metadata with the NGFW. The Use cases for them are enormous: from blocking known DoS sources to forward traffic from specific IP addresses on low latency links. Let’s take for instance the…

In this blog I’m sharing my experience leveraging Cortex XDR API’s to tailor-fit this product into specific customer requirements. I bet that if you’re a Systems Engineer operating in EMEA you’ve argued more than once about the way products and licenses are packaged from an opportunity size point of view…

Welcome to the last part of my series on creating valuable, usable and future-proof Enterprise APIs. …

Welcome to the third part of my series on creating valuable, usable, and future-proof Enterprise APIs. Part 1 covered some background context and the importance of design, while the second post was about security and backend protection; this chapter is on optimization and scale. 3. Optimize interactions When dealing with scenarios that weren’t…

Welcome to the second part of my series on creating valuable, usable and future-proof Enterprise APIs. In the first post, I covered some background context and the importance of design; this chapter is about security and protecting your backend. 1. Secure your APIs Most of the projects I’ve been involved with revolve around Cybersecurity…