Palo Alto Networks | Approach to Intrusion Prevention | White Paper 1 Palo Alto Networks Approach to Intrusion Prevention Today’s Threat Landscape Modern threat actors show no signs of slowing down, with attacks growing not only in volume but sophistication across network, cloud, and software-as-a-service environments. This year, AV-TEST has identified over 1.3 billion malware samples, already surpassing 2021 in the first quarter. 1 Palo Alto Networks threat intelligence team, Unit 42, monitored a total of 7,000 newly released vulnerabilities as well as a total of 3.8 million attack sessions between August 2021 and October 2021 alone. 2 With the uptick in the use of red team tools such as Cobalt Strike and access to adversarial “as-a-service” offerings, threat actors have great

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