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  • When “As Secure As Possible” Isn’t Enough: Why Now Is the Time to Move to Microsoft 365 E5

    As bad actors uplevel their approaches, Microsoft E5 is helping organizations rise to the challenge. In this comprehensive whitepaper, you’ll get thorough guidance for an upgrade to Microsoft E5 from Microsoft E3, key considerations and beyond.

  • Prepare Your Environment for Copilot for Microsoft 365 - Applying Zero Trust Principles to Your Adoption Strategy

    Get a deep dive on why Zero Trust and a Microsoft E5 upgrade are critical to a secure Copilot for Microsoft 365 deployment. In this guide, we unpack all the ways you can prepare your environment for Copilot for Microsoft 365 — using Zero Trust principles and the full value of Microsoft E5 licensing.

  • Shield of Excellence: Securing & Simplifying the Business with Microsoft E5

    The shift from Microsoft E3 to E5 is making a huge difference in security posture and peace of mind. In this infographic, you’ll explore some of the top benefits of E5, how it goes above and beyond conventional security, and why clients across industries trust Insight with their Microsoft E5 investments.

  • 2024 Ransomware Trends Report

    This year’s report surveyed 1,200 CISOs , security professionals, and backup administrators whose organizations suffered at least one ransomware attack in 2023 to assess different perspectives in the united fight against ransomware. Download this report to learn about the targets and impacts of ransomware attacks, the financial impact, cyber insurance, and the cost of team misalignment.

  • 2024 Ransomware Trends United States Executive Summary

    This year’s report surveyed 350 CISOs , security professionals, and backup administrators whose organizations suffered at least one ransomware attack in 2023 to assess different perspectives in the united fight against ransomware. Download this report to learn about the targets and impacts of ransomware attacks, the financial impact, cyber insurance, and the cost of team misalignment.

  • The role of AI in email security

    It’s AI vs AI now in the cyber threat landscape, while cybercriminals are outpacing traditional gateway defenses. Download this guide from Barracuda to get best practices for leveraging AI-powered solutions and key metrics to evaluate vendor performance.

  • Securing tomorrow: A CISO’s guide to the role of AI in cybersecurity

    Learn how AI is shaping cybersecurity threats and defenses in this new guide for CISOs. Download the report from Barracuda to explore the impact and opportunities of artificial intelligence.

  • Top Email Threats and Trends Vol.1

    Generative AI revolutionizes email attacks and defenses, the latest report from Barracuda explores the trends in email-based attacks and how organizations should defense with Gen-AI.

  • Advancing Data Protection Maturity

    In this IDC research paper, learn how to transform the necessary practice of backup and recovery into a strategic initiative to give your business a competitive advantage.

  • 10 Recovery Objectives Best Practices

    Recovery objectives are the foundational metric for building your disaster recovery strategy. Building your backup and recovery strategy based on your recovery objectives can provide you with confidence that when disaster hits, you are ready to recover with minimal data loss and impact on business processes and protect your business’s brand.

  • 2024 Data Protection Trends

    The global data protection market continues to grow, but how exactly are companies adapting for modern data protection in the face of ransomware and hybrid clouds?  In this new research report, 1,200 business and IT leaders were surveyed on their IT and data protection strategies, including their plans for 2024 and beyond.

  • Your Hybrid Infrastructure is Under Attack

    The nature of hybrid infrastructure presents a host of security challenges. Hybrid architectures require an unprecedented level of interconnectivity as, essentially, everything connects to everything else. This white paper walks you through implementing security in your hybrid infrastructure without slowing down innovation.

  • The Total Economic Impact™ of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewalls

    Securing digital transformation across environments takes VM-Series virtual firewall efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In-depth and extensive Forrester Consulting research commissioned by Palo Alto Networks has discovered a significant 115% ROI over three years with a six-month payback period for these virtualized NGFWs.

  • Five Key Challenges in Private Cloud Security

    No one would argue that security is ever easy, but private cloud security is becoming progressively more difficult due to expanding attack surfaces and more sophisticated threats. The traditional approach of relying on a security perimeter to divide the world neatly into trusted and untrusted zones simply does not fit today’s hybrid cloud architectures and cloud native development strategies.

  • Protect Kubernetes Environments with CN-Series Firewalls

    As container adoption steadily rises, organizations using traditional security methods are struggling to control their containers without slowing the speed of development. This e-book explains how CN-Series Container NGFWs provide full visibility and control in Kubernetes® environments, align cloud native security across your deployment, and unify security management in hybrid infrastructures.

  • Obtaining Best-in-Class Network Security with Cloud Ease of Use

    Get the details about how Cloud NGFW is fully managed by Palo Alto Networks and easily procured in AWS Marketplace. In this solution brief, you’ll get an understanding of network-based threats in the cloud – and see how you can meet these challenges. You’ll see the advantages of not managing any infrastructure, easy deployment, and ways to secure your AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) with Cloud NGFW.

  • Bringing Zero Trust Security to the Public Cloud

    You face many decisions about your public cloud. One of the most critical is your approach to security. See how a Zero Trust network security platform can protect you in the public cloud – all while improving ROI, productivity and user experience. Whether it’s AWS®, Microsoft Azure®, Google Cloud Platform or something else, you’ll have it covered. Download now to learn how the network security platform can protect you in the public cloud while improving processes across the board.

  • Top 10 Considerations for Your Next-Gen SD-WAN

    In this new white paper, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) takes a look at the 10 things a next-generation SD-WAN solution should consist of as organizations consider deploying long-term solutions.

  • SD-WAN: Protect Branches with Zero Trust

    Modern enterprises must stay proactive to meet customer needs and protect all data, users and apps no matter where they're located. The onslaught of new apps and the explosion of IoT devices make the attack surface challenging to manage. Traditional branches don't accommodate the type of security architecture necessary to protect employees, diverse and distributed apps, and a rapid increase in IoT devices.

  • Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN Delivers Exceptional User Experience, Holistic Network Security, And IT Operations Automation

    Palo Alto Networks commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the potential return on investment organizations may achieve by deploying Prisma®️ SD-WAN. The December 2023 Total Economic Impact™️(TEI) Spotlight of Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN offers guidance and illustrates its greatest benefits.