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# Palo Alto Networks News of the Week -- August 29

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[Events](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/category/events/?ts=markdown)  
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[VMworld](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/tag/vmworld/?ts=markdown)

Here's a roundup of this week's top [Palo Alto Networks news](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/category/news-of-the-week/).

Following a recent study of apps in the Google Play Store, [Unit 42 discusses several security risks caused by the bad certificate management practiced in many Android apps](http://bit.ly/1pmtpTK), from social to mobile banking.

![figure 1\_google play](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/figure-1_google-play-500x424.png)

As part of Unit 42's mission to contribute to the security community, they developed and released a version of the NetWire decryption tool that works within ChopShop. [Learn how to use the tool](http://bit.ly/1oZuDEh).

We laid the foundation for our partner pay for performance profitability approach in our latest NextWave Partner Program news. [Find out more](http://bit.ly/1olCaaz).

![NextWave logo-final](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/NextWave-logo-final.jpeg)

[Check out our paper and Rick Howard's article](http://bit.ly/1vfgBB9) to help governments develop a structured approach to their Security Operations Centers (SOC).

The summer may be drawing to a close, but you still have a few more days to [enter the August Picture It contest](http://bit.ly/1lcoHai). Submitted already? Great! Haven't submitted yet? What are you waiting for?

![Processed with Rookie](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/4.29_EMEA_Netherlands_OlafHartong_ASP4All-500x500.jpg)

Earlier this week Sharat Sinha, Vice President of APAC Sales, spoke with Channel NewsAsia in Singapore about the significance of hacktivism and continuing challenges with cybersecurity in the region. [Watch here](http://bit.ly/1tKBbq5).

![sharat\_singapore video](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sharat_singapore-video.png)

In recent months, a new narrative has taken shape on the Internet of Things. Instead of thinking about how to protect against an attack on a network connected device, what can we do about the network connected devices that are doing the attacking? [Brian Tokuyoshi discusses that question here](http://bit.ly/1u1HrsP).

You can have it all: data center security without compromise. That was a big theme at VMworld 2014 this week in San Francisco. [Check out scenes from the conference](http://bit.ly/1sCRBPx).

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Given the rate of consolidation in healthcare --- the year-to-date level of announced M\&A activity in the healthcare sector is at its highest since Thomson Reuters began tracking in 1980 --- [Isabelle Dumont shares the best security practices for healthcare providers throughout the integration process](http://bit.ly/VKHgGE).

Max Barry's Lexicon isn't a fit for Cybersecurity Canon, but Rick Howard still recommends it as a good read. [Find out why](http://bit.ly/VQLWue).

There is still time to [vote for Palo Alto Networks](http://bit.ly/1nWZew5) in the 2014 Computing Security Awards.

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