ABOUT PALO ALTO NETWORKS
"DEFINING NEXT GENERATION"
Palo Alto Networks delivered the first true innovation in firewall technology in more than 20 years and now they've made it even more powerful. The PA-5000 series of Palo Alto Networks Next Generation Firewalls are carrier-class protection systems that provide complete visibility and policy control of more than 1500 applications, regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption.
While Palo Alto Networks introduced this technology to the market, changing the firewall forever, Next Generation protection is more than just application identity to Palo Alto Networks. They deliver "application enablement", making it safe to work with policy-approved applications with easy management and enterprise class performance.
There are three key design elements that endorse Palo Alto Network's approach as the right one when looking for a Next Generation Firewall:
Palo Alto Networks AP-ID
Palo Alto Networks AP-ID leverages protocol decoders and powerful application signatures to identify and categorize applications both in-line in real-time or on a span port as an analysis device.
Palo Alto Networks User-ID
Next, Palo Alto Networks identifies users on the network providing a critical identification and role map linking application access to job function. This ties individual use to policy as controlled by Active Directory so exacting application policy can easily be deployed and monitored across the network, subnet or down to the user.

Palo Alto Networks Content-ID
Palo Alto Networks' third unique component works in conjunction with AP-ID and User-ID to define specific content protection marrying application control and user-ID to protect data, stop threats and filter URLs bringing an element of Data-Loss-Prevention to further protect your important assetts.

Watch the demo's and call our engineering department to see first hand how Palo Alto Networks firewalls integrate with Active Directory to identify specific application users by name - not just IP address. See how their firewalls provide integrated threat prevention technology, enabling IT organizations to set policies to automatically scan for threats (virus, spyware, worm attacks and application vulnerabilities) within high risk applications on the network.
Palo Alto Networks provides exacting application-aware control of all traffic on your network with the management tools needed to protect the largest enterprise deployment!
White Papers
DEMOS
Next Generation Firewalls
Lee Klarich, VP of Product Management introduces Palo Alto Networks and demonstrates some of its product management capabilities that make it the most innovative firewall the industry has ever seen.
Palo Alto’s CTO interview
Palo Alto’s CTO interview - Nir Zuk describes Palo Alto’s unique technology with security analyst Richard Stiennon.
PRODUCTS
PA-5000 Series
Palo Alto Networks 5000 Series Next Generation Firewalls represent the benchmark of Network Application Control for enterprise environments. High performance single-pass technology assures protection with limited delay, jitter and latency.
- 20 Gbps firewall throughput
- 10 Gbps threat prevention throughput
- 4 Gbps IPSec VPN throughput
- 4,000,000 max sessions
- 120,000 new sessions per second
- 8,000 IPSec VPN tunnels/tunnel interfaces
- 20,000 SSL VPN Users
- 225 virtual routers
- 25/225* virtual systems (base/max*)
- 900 security zones
- 40,000 max number of policies
PA-2000 Series
Application Control for inner enclaves, enterprise edge and small enterprise networks requiring physical port flexability and uplink capacity.
- 1 Gbps firewall throughput
- 500 Mbps threat prevention throughput
- 300 Mbps IPSec VPN throughput
- 250,000 max sessions
- 15,000 new sessions per second
- 2,000 IPSec VPN tunnels/tunnel interfaces
- 1,000 SSL VPN Users
- 10 virtual routers
- 1/6* virtual systems (base/max*)
- 40 security zones
- 5,000 max number of policies
PA-200
Application Control for Small & Medium Business delivers enterprise features in a small but powerful platform.
- 100 Mbps firewall throughput
- 50 Mbps threat prevention throughput
- 50 Mbps IPSec VPN throughput
- 64,000 max sessions
- 1,000 new sessions per second
- 25 IPSec VPN tunnels/tunnel interfaces
- 25 SSL VPN Users
- 3 virtual routers
- 10 security zones
- 250 max number of policies

