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Cyber Risks · Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks

Understanding Global Application Usage and Threats to Enterprises

Summary: Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks' threat intelligence team, examined application usage activity across more than 7,000 organizations over a 12-month period for its 2015 Application Usage and Threat Report, adding data from Palo Alto Networks WildFire. The report includes dossiers on well-known adversaries covering their aliases, targeted industries and regions, and specific tactics and tools, plus base recommendations for reducing the risk and attack surface tied to each finding.

Bottom line: The report's own framing is that prevention of a significant majority of attacks is possible only with shared, actionable threat intelligence feeding defenses - so the question for a security leader is whether their program consumes adversary behavior data from others or works alone against actors tracked across 7,000 organizations.

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