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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 Microsoft 365 Copilot - 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 Microsoft 365 Copilot — 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.

  • The state of hybrid Active Directory cyber resilience

    A report based on a recent survey of 430 Quest customers and Active Directory (AD) users to discover where organizations struggle with AD security today.

  • Top 10 Active Directory Security Reports and Alerts You Need

    This white paper reveals the top 10 reports and alerts you need to ensure the stability and security of your Active Directory environment, and explains how to get them easily with Change Auditor.

  • Five Ways to Improve Auditing of Your Hybrid Active Directory

    Properly auditing a hybrid Active Directory (AD) environment is not a simple task. You need to be able to quickly spot threats, track changes to configurations and roles, keep a close eye on the activity of users, store your audit data for years, and much more. If all you have are native tools, it’s a nearly impossible job. But Quest offers a comprehensive solution that makes it easy: On Demand Audit Hybrid Suite for Office 365. This white paper illustrates the power of this innovative solution by walking through exactly how it helps you solve five of the toughest auditing challenges in any hybrid AD environment.

  • A “Boom” Model for Cyber Resilience

    Every organization is at risk of a boom — an incident involving IT resources that could lead to security breaches or service disruptions. The example that typically leaps to mind is a deliberate attack, such as a hacker who compromises an Active Directory (AD) user account and uses various lateral movement and privilege escalation tactics to steal sensitive data, unleash malware or disrupt operations. But a boom can also result from a non-malicious event like an overworked IT admin misconfiguring an application or a careless user clicking on a phishing email, or even a power outage or equipment failure.

  • Mitigating the Top 5 Modern Active Directory Threats

    Identity is the new security perimeter — adversaries work relentlessly to compromise user accounts because they provide access to valuable data and critical systems. And one of the top targets of these attacks is Active Directory (AD). The reason is simple: AD is a primary authentication and access provider for the vast majority of organizations today, even those that have embraced cloud technologies like Entra ID and Microsoft 365.

  • Medical IoT Security Evaluation Checklist

    Our vendor-agnostic checklist helps healthcare organizations evaluate security solutions for operational and medical IoT devices. This checklist includes must-have features and capabilities that decision-makers across healthcare organizations should prioritize before selecting a solution to protect all managed and unmanaged medical and operational IoT devices in their network.

  • Closing Security Gaps for Connected Devices in Healthcare

    Medical devices have become critical to patient care—and are connected to each other, your network, the internet, and the cloud. But many have inherent vulnerabilities, creating gaps in overall security. This ebook breaks down these risks and shows how an automated Zero Trust approach to medical device security can close the gaps.

  • SecureIQLab Advanced Cloud Firewall (ACFW) v1.6 CyberRisk Comparative Report

    Read this report to learn why SecureIQLab independent testing rates Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual firewall as a top choice for enterprises seeking advanced cloud network security solutions.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Network Security Buyer’s Guide

    Read this guide to understand common network security challenges and learn how to craft a request for proposal (RFP) that ensures a successful adoption and exceptional return on your security investment.

  • 2023 Unit 42 Network Threat Trends Research Report

    In this report, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42™ research team shares current trends in malware and the evolving threat landscape. This includes an analysis of the most common types of malware and their distribution methods.

  • 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.