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Burton Catalyst Conference - July 30th, San Diego, CA
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Archived InfoSecurity Webcast: What Applications Are On YOUR Network?
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Archived SANS Webcast: Better Firewall Functionality and Cost Savings at Haworth
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Palo Alto Networks has just announced a major new release of PAN-OS – the software that powers all of our next generation firewalls. PAN-OS 3.0 delivers a broad set of new capabilities, including an unprecedented level of application control in the firewall. Now, for the first time ever, you can apply powerful QoS traffic shaping capabilities to specific applications to optimize or constrain their performance on your network. In addition, PAN-OS 3.0 provides:
- SSL VPN support for remote user access control
- Ability to identify and control Citrix users on the network
- Addition of dynamic URL filtering database in the cloud
- Ability to write custom signatures for HTTP applications
- Significant increase in threat capacity
- Improvements in logging, reporting, and management
For more details on PAN-OS 3.0, please download the new Firewall Features Overview datasheet.
Palo Alto Networks recently published the Spring 2009 edition of its bi-annual Application Usage and Risk report. This report profiles the actual network traffic captured from 60 large enterprises in the US, representing nearly one million users. In total, nearly 500 different Internet applications were identified – many of them with the ability to circumvent security controls and enter the network. Even more troublesome, a growing number of employees were using personal proxies and remote desktop applications to gain access to virtually any Internet content they wanted. It’s worth noting that nearly all enterprises profiled were using some combination of traditional firewalls, IPS, proxies, and URL filtering products – but none of them were effective in controlling these applications. To learn more, get the complete copy of this free report here or watch our webcast on this topic here.
Greg Young, Gartner Security Research Vice President, talks in-depth about the changing application and threat landscape, and its impact on corporate enterprise networks. In addition, he outlines specific requirements in next generation firewalls that are necessary for IT organizations effectively identify and control these applications and stop related threats. Of course, Gartner is vendor-neutral and does not endorse Palo Alto Networks. But the capabilities Greg Young discusses are available now in Palo Alto Networks next generation firewalls. Watch this video webcast and judge for yourself!
If you’re ready to consider a next generation firewall from Palo Alto Networks, this is the time to take action. Because now you can trade in your old port-blocking firewall and save up to $6,000 per unit, with no limit on the number of next generation firewalls you can purchase – or the amount of money you can save! This unique offer covers most competitive firewall products and various rebate levels are available for all Palo Alto Networks firewalls. To learn more, click here.
Haworth Inc., a maker and designer of office furniture had a problem. While the $1.65 billion manufacturer wanted its employees to embrace social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others, the company wanted to minimize the security risks that go with them. In addition, Chad Clement, manager of information security at Haworth, realized how Web-based attacks were steadily rising – a user that visits an infected Web site could jeopardize applications and data from the PC back to the data center. Watch the webcast and find out how they solved the problem.
RSA Conference – San Francisco
Palo Alto Networks not only demonstrated its products in its booth at the RSA Conference in mid-April, the company also staged a “mock protest” outside the convention center, proclaiming “It’s Time to Fix the Firewall.” The protest was enjoyed by spectators, but not so much by show organizers! Fortunately, our reporter was on the scene and filed this video report. On a more serious note, Richard Stiennon, analyst at IT harvest, also spoke with Palo Alto Networks founder, Nir Zuk, to learn more about this same issue.
InfoSecurity Europe – London
Following the RSA Conference, Palo Alto Networks made its debut at the UK’s largest security trade show in late April, and once again attracted hundreds of attendees with the same provocative message. And once again, a reporter was on hand to file a video report.
Catalyst Conference – San Diego
Planning to attend the Burton Group’s annual Catalyst conference? Palo Alto Networks will host a hospitality suite there the evening of Thursday, July 30. So please stop by and join us for drinks, discussion, and demos of our award-winning next generation firewalls. For more information on the event, click here.
AusCERT Australia – Sydney
Palo Alto Networks’ participated for the first time in Australia’s prestigious AusCERT conference, and was awarded with Secure Computing Magazine’s Innovation Award. It was presented for the most significant changes to the traditional practice of IT security. Find out why Palo Alto Networks won.
Integralis Security World – Stuttgart
Nir Zuk, founder and CTO of Palo Alto Networks, will be a featured speaker at the 2nd annual IT Security Users Conference and Exhibition sponsored by Integralis, one of Palo Alto Networks important channel partners. The company will also be demonstrating its next generation firewalls. Learn more about this event.
If you are not yet familiar with Palo Alto Networks, here’s a quick introduction. The company was founded in 2005 with a mission to create a family of next generation firewalls that allow IT organizations to regain visibility and control of Internet applications and traffic on their network. The firewalls were designed to meet five important requirements:
- Visibility into all applications, regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic – or even SSL encryption
- Identification of application users by name – not just by IP address
- Granular control of application access, by user or groups of users
- Real-time threat prevention, content control, and URL filtering
- In-line throughput up to 10gbps, with no performance degradation
To address these requirements, Palo Alto Networks firewalls combine innovative new identification technologies, such as App-ID, User-ID, and Content-ID, all leveraging an underlying Single-Pass Parallel Processing Architecture (SP3), which ensures maximum throughput with minimum latency. In the past year, Palo Alto Networks has won several awards, including:
Today hundreds of customers worldwide – including many of the Fortune 500 – are enjoying the benefits and cost savings of Palo Alto Networks next generation firewalls.
Join the revolution – It’s Time to Fix the Firewall! If you’re still not convinced, check out this 3-minute flash video. Just click on the red brick wall and turn up your volume.
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