Anyone who’s been following the security pundits and keeping an eye on the threat landscape can tell you that 2016 is being hailed as the year of ransomware. Sensationalist click-bait headlines aside, experts agree that ransomware is more than just the latest vulnerability that happened to make the headlines, and any business that relies on computers (are there any left that don’t?) can’t afford to ignore this. If you must TLDR, at least skim the minimum info below.

As you may know from past posts (read here), Focus has partnered up with Palo Alto Networks. Palo Alto Networks is a next-generation security company, leading a new era in cyber security by safely enabling all applications and preventing advanced threats from achieving their objectives for tens of thousands of organizations around the world. Palo Alto is one of the fastest growing security companies in the market because of their deep expertise, commitment to innovation, and game-changing security platform focused on bringing an end to the era of breaches by uniquely integrating their Next-Generation Firewall, Advanced Endpoint Protection, and Threat Intelligence Cloud.

What is a NextGen Firewall

In today’s ever changing landscape of Malware and network threats, visibility and control of protocols and applications, is a key element in providing a robust and manageable security posture for any organization. Cisco FirePOWER and AMP technology enables visibility and context based security across the whole network. Advanced Malware Protection or AMP for short, couples with big data analytics with a single pane of glass for management, discovering threats and keeping track of files as they are downloaded from the net or discovered on endpoints.