Palo Alto Networks - a weapon in the fight against new threats
The catalog of threats that IT system administrators have to take into account has changed significantly in recent years. Attack vectors, against which up to a point could be protected using traditional firewall and anti-virus protection of workstations, have undergone a significant transformation. Criminals quite quickly learned to bypass traditional security measures and developed techniques thanks to which the hijacking and surveillance of an IT system often takes place unnoticed. APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) threats have become very real. Known and high-profile attacks of this type are sometimes detected after months, and sometimes years, when criminals have already extracted all the data from the systems.
Defending against this type of threat using traditional tools is little that ineffective, it creates a false sense of security, which allows intruders to conduct their activities with complete freedom. The lack of appropriate alerts from security systems means that everyone seems to be safe and there is no need to look at it closely. Most serious security incidents happen not in security-deficient environments, but in security-defective environments. Often, as part of handling a security incident, new tools are launched that immediately detect a whole range of threats and generate a large number of alerts, while traditional antivirus systems and firewalls present in the network do not see anything.