Santa Clara, Calif., February 12, 2015 – Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the leader in enterprise security, today announced several public sector focused activities, including the formation of the Palo Alto Networks Public Sector Advisory Council, which officially convened in 2014, and the appointment of Ryan Gillis as Vice President of Government Affairs and Policy.

Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the leader in enterprise security, today announced its participation in the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University on February 13, 2015, which will bring together government and industry leaders to help shape public and private sector efforts aimed at protecting American consumers and companies from growing cyber threats.

In the face of government regulation such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), personal health information (PHI) continues to leak into the public domain at an alarming rate, resulting in fraudulent insurance claims, identity theft and other costs to the health care industry. Research indicates PHI can easily be found on peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing networks. But why?