Jesse Ralston

Jesse Ralston joined Palo Alto Networks in 2008 as a software engineer in the Platform team. Since then, he has held various leadership roles managing the Platform and Data Plane teams and now is SVP of Cloud Delivered Security Services, leading the engineering teams building and running the Threat Prevention, IoT, WildFire, SaaS, DLP, DNS, and PAN-DB services. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Jesse was a software engineer performing platform development at Cisco Systems. Jesse holds a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Stopping threats in today’s threat landscape

Many adversaries take advantage of new vulnerabilities and convert them into weaponized attacks, while extreme adversaries focus on supply chain and targeted attacks.

Jesse Ralston

June 18, 2021

Many adversaries now take advantage of new vulnerabilities and convert them into weaponized attacks very easily and very quickly, while the extreme adversaries are now focusing on supply chain and targeted attacks. This combination makes for a very challenging environment for any modern enterprise.

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Stopping threats in today’s threat landscape

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