Driving better security outcomes for customers
through partner-delivered incident response services built on
Cortex XDR
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Oct. 25,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on its managed
services momentum, Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) announced
today the expansion of the NextWave Program to empower partners to
rapidly contain and remediate cyberthreats by enabling them to
deliver incident response (IR) services powered by industry-leading
Cortex XDR®.
The effects of cybersecurity incidents are far reaching in the
digital age, but navigating rapidly evolving risks can pose a
challenge for organizations. To solve this challenge, many turn to
managed security service providers (MSSPs) for help strengthening
their security outcomes. The NextWave Program now provides the
tools, training and resources to address customer demand for IR
services and aligns with the expansion of the Palo Alto Networks
Cortex® MSSP ecosystem, which grew 146% year over year.
Leveraging a partner specializing in IR services can accelerate
response and remediation across the incident lifecycle for holistic
response to an incident.
"The 2022 Unit 42 Incident Response Report found that in 44% of
cases, organizations did not have an extended detection and
response (XDR) security solution, or it was not fully deployed on
the initially impacted systems. Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR is
designed to provide more comprehensive visibility so threats are
identified early along with better context for accelerated
investigation and tighter containment," said Tom Barsi, vice president, WW Cortex Ecosystems,
Palo Alto Networks. "We are investing in our MSSP partner ecosystem
more than ever before with the expansion of the NextWave Partner
Program to encompass Threat Response. Partners that achieve this
designation are highly skilled and have met stringent requirements
with demonstrated deep experience in delivering Threat Hunting and
IR services leveraging Cortex XDR. They are able to support
customers through Incident Response, during their greatest time of
need."
The Palo Alto Networks NextWave Program for Threat Response
offers partners:
- Leading IR XDR technology built utilizing proactive and
reactive use cases to reduce time and resources spent on delivering
services, including collecting data, aggregating data, analyzing
data and remediating; a purpose-built platform and program that is
designed for true IR in addition to endpoint detection and response
(EDR).
- Expert technical and deployment support 24/7 for online
access to XDR tenants within minutes and around-the-clock technical
support.
- Expanded routes to market with more ways to offer
proactive services to clients pre- or post-IR engagement, including
advanced threat analytics, proactive assessments and attack surface
management.
NextWave Partner Quotes
Deloitte India and Palo Alto
Networks recently announced an expansion of their collaboration to
offer complete, end-to-end technology-based cyber incident response
services to businesses in India.
"We are pleased to have earned the Palo Alto Networks NextWave
designation for Threat Response to help transform the cyber
incident response space together. With cybersecurity incidents
becoming increasingly prevalent and sophisticated, along with added
regulatory pressure, we foresaw the need for a smarter, faster, and
more extensive suite of services that would provide our clients
with next-generation security technology and services. Our
partnership with Palo Alto Networks affirms that commitment to our
clients," said Aloke Kumar Dani,
partner — Risk Advisory, Deloitte India.
"Earning the Palo Alto Networks NextWave designation for Threat
Response helps further our security team's expertise in delivering
a holistic security operations platform to our customers," said
Kevin Kilgo, vice president of
Managed Services, Fulcrum. "Combining Fulcrum's managed security
services, our 24x7x365 security operations center, SIEM as a
service, and SOAR capabilities with the best-in-class power of
Cortex XDR has helped our SOC team significantly in addressing the
ever-growing burden of our customer's detection & response
operations."
"We continue to see our enterprise clients divesting internal
Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) capabilities.
Instead, they are outsourcing this work to chosen partners like
PwC," said Ross Foley, director,
Managed Cyber Defense Lead, PwC UK. "We are proud to have achieved
the Palo Alto Networks NextWave designation for Threat Response to
help clients respond to, contain, and remediate cyberthreats and
vulnerabilities so they can focus on their business. Our solutions
powered by Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR deliver trusted offerings
to clients, combining the recognized cyber expertise of both
organizations to reduce the probability of a breach as well as the
impact should an incident occur."
"We required a technology that checked the boxes for IR
capabilities while simultaneously meeting the needs and use cases
of an incident responder. The Cortex XDR platform has been built
with our biggest daily pain points in mind, and it is designed to
be deployed in fragile incident response situations," said
Imelda Flores, head of SCILabs,
Scitum TELMEX. "By receiving the Palo Alto Networks NextWave
designation for Threat Response and adopting Cortex into our
service delivery portfolio, we have multiplied our capabilities and
offerings without investing in additional resources."
Learn more about Palo Alto Networks NextWave Threat
Response.
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is the
world's cybersecurity leader. We innovate to outpace cyberthreats,
so organizations can embrace technology with confidence. We provide
next-gen cybersecurity to thousands of customers globally, across
all sectors. Our best-in-class cybersecurity platforms and services
are backed by industry-leading threat intelligence and strengthened
by state-of-the-art automation. Whether deploying our products to
enable the Zero Trust Enterprise, responding to a security
incident, or partnering to deliver better security outcomes through
a world-class partner ecosystem, we're committed to helping ensure
each day is safer than the one before. It's what makes us the
cybersecurity partner of choice.
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very best people in service of our mission, so we're also proud to
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