Despite corporate and IT policies that prohibit use of certain applications, many high risk applications are still being used “under the radar” by Internet-savvy employees that know how to circumvent IT security controls. Traditional firewalls and related security devices are ineffective in addressing this problem.

Join Chris Cram, Principal Consultant with Scalar, for this session where we will define what next-generation firewalls really are, and how you can use them today to protect your network and stop threats throughout the complete attack lifecycle. Chris will lay out practical best-practices for preventing common classes of threats and provide a hands-on demonstration of the Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall in action.

TGIF@ScalarLabs is an interactive monthly session for a technical audience.

By attending you will learn about how the combination of technologies can make your life easier:

• snapshot and replication tools can increase your productivity and empower end users
• virtualization will enable you to better serve your user and business stakeholders
• squeeze the most performance out of the WAN bandwidth you already have
• getting more storage bang for your buck
• using 10GB and converged networks to reduce your cabling headache
• getting the most out of the network you are stuck with
• why using multiple tools for backup recovery archiving and dedupe isn't the only option
• figuring out where your security issues are.

As a systems, networking or storage professional, you are obligated to meet rapidly increasing capacity and reliability requirements, while minimizing complexity, and simplifying management. And you must do so in a business environment where shrinking IT budgets are forcing you to do more with less.

By attending these sessions you will see how your peers are solving their toughest issues while saving time and money.