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James Holland @hollandj.uk · Aug 28

Another great Black Hat NOC, rocked by Palo Alto Networks. Thanks to the NOC Management Team for having us again and for all the support and guidance. Can't wait for the next event...

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Aug 13

Life in the Black Hat NOC, USA 2025, compressed into less than 1 minute...
#BHUSA #OpsForLife

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Jun 18

James Holland @hollandj.uk · May 19

You know love a light-hearted video, so here's my little mashup from Black Hat Asia 2025!

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Apr 14

And thanks so much to the amazing folks representing Palo Alto Networks, great job team: Rui Xiong Yew, Hao Jun Poon, Ayman Mahmoud, Nicholas Ericksen, Matthew Tennis, Derrick Chang, Uday Desai and Rabin Bhattarai.
#OpsForLife #BHASIA #BlackHat
#LifeAtPaloAltoNetworks #AllTheHashtags #JaffaCakes

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Apr 14

Many thanks also to Florence Chan, Valerie Sung, Anton Widodo and team for working with us on content! It's so great to us show the world what we're doing at Black Hat!

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Apr 14

Thank you Jessica (Bair) Oppenheimer, Ryan MacLennan, Mark Overholser, Jonathan Smith and Landon Harsh for all the cross-vendor collaboration with you and your awesome teams.

Thanks to my Palo Alto Networks partner in crime Jason Reverri for continuing to put up with me and my random ways!

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Apr 14

With almost a decade of collaboration as the Network Security Platform, we are now also the official Security Operations Platform.

Thank you Jessica Jung, Bart Stump, Neil Grifter Wyler, Steve Fink, James Pope, and Mike Spicer for your leadership and guidance, support and advice along the way.

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Apr 14

Thank you to Black Hat for once again choosing to partner with Palo Alto Networks for the NOC at the Asia 2025 conference in Singapore 🖤

It was awesome to see everyone again, build an entire security-focused infrastructure in just over a day, and follow up with a smooth operation for the week.

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Apr 10

The birth, life, and death of an ephemeral NOC/SOC for Black Hat Asia 2025!

Thanks so much to all the Black Hat leads and the other partners for the huge collaborative effort required to keep making this happen so relatively smoothly, event after event 🤘

#BHASIA #OpsForLife #PaloAltoNetworks

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Mar 24

Heading to Black Hat Asia this week, representing Palo Alto Networks in our continuing partnering with Black Hat to again deliver Security Operations and Network Security Platforms. You can read more here: www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2025/03...

#BHASIA #OpsForLife #LifeAtPaloAltoNetworks

Palo Alto Networks Helps Secure Black Hat Asia 2025

Palo Alto Networks secures Black Hat Asia 2025 with pride. Our NOC and SOC involvement ensures uninterrupted conference experience for attendees.

www.paloaltonetworks.com

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Mar 21

I predict this will keep on continuing to continue 😉

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Mar 21

Not SASE

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Mar 21

🤷‍♂️

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Feb 7

If at first you don't succeed.... 😉

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Jan 14

Same. Definitely holidays. Vehicles too.

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Jan 7

🎬 → 🏁

How it started and how it ended. Palo Alto Networks in the NOC at Black Hat Europe 2024. The story in less than 90 seconds.
#blackhat #bheu #bheu24
#opsforlife #lifeatpaloaltonetworks

(PS Sorry for calling it Black Hat London, you'd think I'd know by now...)

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James Holland on LinkedIn: #blackhat #bheu #bheu24 #opsforlife #lifeatpaloaltonetworks

🎬 → 🏁 How it started and how it ended. Palo Alto Networks in the NOC at Black Hat Europe 2024. The story in less than 90 seconds. #blackhat #bheu…

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James Holland @hollandj.uk · Jan 3

Birth, life, and teardown of an enterprise-grade NOC/SOC.

It's awesome to be a part of the multi-vendor team delivering this, and my extra fun on the side is the time lapses ;-)

#blackhat #bheu #bheu24
#paloaltonetworks #opsforlife

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James Holland @hollandj.uk · Dec 20

#OpsForLife
#BlackHatEurope
#BlackHat
#BHEU
#BHEU24
#PaloAltoNetworks
#LifeAtPaloAltoNetworks
#AllTheHastags
#Biscuits

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Dec 20

Thanks to my Palo Alto Networks partner in crime, nibb13, for continuing to put up with me and my random ways!

And of course, thanks so much to the amazing folks representing Palo Alto Networks at the event and helping us with content, great job team!

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Dec 20

Thank you to the Black Hat management and NOC Leads for your support and guidance along the way.

Thank you Cisco, Corelight and Arista for all the cross-vendor collaboration with your awesome teams.

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Dec 20

This event was especially awesome; with almost a decade of ongoing collaboration as the official Network Security Platform, we are now also the official SOC Platform with Cortex XSIAM!

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Dec 20

Thank you @blackhatevents.bsky.social for once again choosing to partner with @paloaltontwks.bsky.social for the Network Operations Centre at the Europe conference🖤

It was awesome to build a security-focused infrastructure in just over a day, and follow up with a smooth operation for the week.

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Dec 19

This time last week, with Jonathan Smith (Arista), Aditya Raghavan (Cisco), Mark Overholser (Corelight), chatting about the Black Hat NOC infrastructure, and being silly for photo opps...

James Holland @hollandj.uk · Dec 18

Partnership. Except for real, not a (sorry marketeers) press-release level depth of partnership.

It's always great that Palo Alto Networks gets to work with Black Hat's other chosen partners Cisco, Arista Networks and Corelight to deliver the event infrastructure. Real-life integrations, deployed 🤘