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• Toyota Financial Services boosts network security

  UK-based Toyota Financial Services has deployed a new network security system to protect its European financial services division.

• Bit9, FireEye, Palo Alto Networks team to hit zero-day malware

  Bit9 has teamed with FireEye and Palo Alto Networks, which each have sandboxing technologies, in order to share information related to zero-day attack code.

• Where do Cisco's network security plans go from here?

  Despite its leadership position in most enterprise security product areas, Cisco faces a number of technological and competitive challenges to stay out in front.

• 'Sandboxing' leader FireEye seen moving toward an IPO

  Though still privately held, FireEye is getting plenty of attention right now because its anti-malware sandboxing technology is something a number of other vendors want to emulate -- and FireEye's growing commercial success is inching it toward possibly going public later this year.

• Check Point, Juniper, Stonesoft shine in low-end network firewall test

  NSS Labs today released test results of performance, management and security capabilities in a dozen low-end network firewalls, with Check Point, Juniper and Stonesoft earning top technical scores.

• Palo Alto Networks founder: Our competitors are on 'death row'

  Palo Alto Networks founder and CTO Nir Zuk took to the stage to deliver the closing keynote address at the company's first-ever user conference here by trumpeting his company's success in firewall innovation and what he described as his competitors' weak attempts to follow.

• SSL decryption may be needed for security reasons, but employees are likely to 'freak out'

  There are plenty of reasons that a company might want to try and decrypt SSL sessions — to stop outbound malware botnet connections that are decrypted, or to stop a rogue insider from sending out sensitive corporate information — but be prepared to hear employees whose data traffic is decrypted complain loudly about their privacy being invaded.

• Palo Alto Networks aspires to anti-malware defense role with WildFire

  Palo Alto Networks wants its next-generation firewall to be the center of enterprise security, giving it a malware-detection and analysis capability called WildFire that's intended to inspect all traffic passing through the firewall to detect targeted attacks within 30 minutes.

• Palo Alto Networks targets VMware shops with virtualized next-gen firewalls

  Palo Alto Networks Tuesday unveiled the first virtualized version of its next-generation firewall, server-based software intended to run on the VMware platform to allow security managers to set up firewall application-layer controls in virtual machines (VM).

• Juniper vs. Palo Alto: Next-gen firewall legal brawl

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2011/enterprise6/120511-cloud-computing-juniper-253313.html">Juniper Networks</a> says that <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/112911-security-theinfopro-253538.html">Palo Alto Networks</a> is infringing on its next-generation firewall technology, which was invented by Palo Alto's founders but for which Juniper holds the patents.

• Cisco, Juniper, Check Point, Palo Alto among firms in security contest

  In the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/111611-smb-security-survey-253083.html">security</a> popularity contest of the moment, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> and Juniper are down and Palo Alto Networks and Check Point are up when it comes to network firewalls, according to one research firm.

• Cisco going to NSS Labs to sort out alleged firewall issues

  Cisco today is expected to confront more directly last week’s allegations from NSS Labs that Cisco firewalls are vulnerable to a hacker exploit known as the “TCP Split Handshake,” an attack that would fool the firewall into thinking the IP connection is a trusted one inside the network.

• Firewall security issue raised in report ignites vendors' ire

  A test by NSS Labs that found firewalls from five vendors are subject in one way or another to remote exploit by hackers has ignited furious response from vendors Fortinet and SonicWall.

• Independent lab tests find firewalls fall down on the job

  During the first quarter of this year, independent IT security testing company, NSS Labs <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/593150/firewall-audit-tools-features-and-functions">evaluated six network firewalls</a>: Check Point Power-1 11065, Cisco ASA 5585, Fortinet Fortigate 3950, Juniper SRX 5800, Palo Alto Networks PA-4020, and the Sonicwall E8500.

• New Palo Alto software enforces security policies on all corporate laptops

  Palo Alto Networks is coming out with software that extends its next-generation firewall protection to individual laptops no matter where they are when they tap into business networks.