Palo Alto Networks AutoFocus Threat Intelligence Service Now Globally Available

Palo Alto Networks announced general availability of AutoFocus, a new threat intelligence cloud service that provides prioritized, actionable cyberthreat intelligence and gives organizations a clear advantage in the battle against cyberthreats.

 AutoFocus empowers security teams to protect their organizations from unique and targeted attacks. The service, initially made available in April 2015 as a community access offering, provides users with the shared intelligence, analytics, and context required to understand which attacks require immediate response, as well as the ability to make threat indicators actionable and prevent future attacks.

In addition to helping shape its continued development, participants in the community access program applauded the valuable benefits they found using the AutoFocus service, including:

·         Priority alerts to help identify and immediately address targeted advanced attacks;

·         Actionable context around attacks, adversaries, and campaigns to better understand how threats fit into campaigns or target specific industries; and 

·         Informed proactive security response to mitigate and prevent attacks facing their organization.

The cloud service correlates and makes data actionable from the Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence cloud, including data from the more than 7,000 subscribers to the WildFire™ service, expertise from the Unit 42 threat research team, and all other users of the AutoFocus service. Together, all organizations can be made safer by building this community of globally shared intelligence.