BUILD YOUR SECURITY STRATEGY

Virtual CISO

Engage a proven CISO to fill a leadership gap or after a breach to coordinate your response and communicate with your customers, legal and regulators.

Expert leaders for post breach response or to improve your security program.

What's included in your service

EXPERT vCISO

Receive practical cybersecurity advice matched to your organization's unique needs.

RISK-INFORMED APPROACH

Define experience based strategy that focuses on the most important risks for your organization.

CUSTOMIZED DELIVERY

We tailor our vCISO services to your priorities, providing actionable plans for your security needs.

SHARED EXPERTISE

Gain access to Palo Alto Networks deep bench of talent across a broad range of security domains.

Our intelligence-driven response approach

With Unit 42 at your side, you'll investigate, respond to and recover from attacks while creating a feedback loop to strengthen your defenses.

Investigate the scope
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SCOPE

Align your cybersecurity aspirations and challenges.
Dynamic analysis
02

ANALYZE

Review existing documentation and conduct stakeholder interviews.
Talent engagement
03

STRATEGIZE

Partner to build a custom security roadmap to reduce your cyber risk.
Transformation services
04

TRANSFORM

Together, we’ll implement projects and strategically address cyber risks.

Turning Threat Intelligence into Cyber Resilience

Attackers move fast and adapt constantly. Unit 42 brings the experience, technology and operational depth to match that speed. From readiness through response to long-term improvement, we help you act with precision and continuously strengthen your security program.

THREAT-INFORMED

Your attack surface is expanding and harder to see. We use telemetry from 70,000+ customers and thousands of incident engagements to identify exactly where you're vulnerable. You gain the clarity to focus resources on the threats that actually matter to your bottom line.

TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN

Unit 42 combines deep platform integration with AI and automation to simplify operations, cut through noise, strengthen prevention and accelerate action so you reduce risk faster and stay ahead of evolving threats.

EXPERTISE-LED

You need experts who have seen it before. Our 24/7 global team spans response, readiness, threat intelligence and long-term transformation, delivering battle-tested expertise across every engagement and phase of your security journey.

TRANSFORMATION-FOCUSED

Every engagement turns lessons learned into lasting improvement. And, every engagement concludes with a roadmap to harden your defenses and prove your maturing resilience to the board. You emerge stronger and more defensible after every encounter.

Be prepared.
Learn more about Unit 42.

podcast 104

When Security Friction Becomes the Backdoor

In this episode of Threat Vector hear, why security that slows people down is security that gets bypassed.

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Seven Ways to Use Your Unit 42 Retainer

Respond fast to minimize the impact of an attack and get back to business sooner. Or use Retainer credits for proactive services to assess, test and improve your security program.

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Why smart people fall for phishing attacks.

Despite robust defenses at our fingertips, common phishing scams and spoofing attacks remain an ongoing issue. Unfortunately, these attacks aren’t disappearing; they’re simply evolving.

Go from reactive
to proactive

Ready to work together? We’ll help you assess and test your security controls, transform your security strategy with an intelligence-informed approach and respond to incidents in record time.

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