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In this edition of the Firewall 2.0 newsletter:
Gartner: There is a Need for Next-Generation Firewalls in the Market
According to Gartner, the firewall market is evolving as the industry responds to increasingly sophisticated attacks and targeted threats. Traditional stateful inspection firewalls are no longer effective in protecting the enterprise. Gartner believes it's time to re-evaluate your security infrastructure and consider next-generation firewalls. Download a copy of the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls to read Gartner's recommendations.
Want to hear directly from Greg Young, Gartner analyst and the author of the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls? Watch this video where Greg Young discusses the need for next-generation firewalls in the market.
Watch Our Customers Describe Their Experience with Palo Alto Networks
Are you considering becoming a Palo Alto Networks customer? See what some of our current customers have to say about our products, support, innovation and their overall experience with Palo Alto Networks.
Last Chance to Win Enterprise 2.0 Party Sweepstakes: Enter by May 31!
There’s an Enterprise 2.0 party going on at your company right now! Employees are using apps like SharePoint, Facebook, YouTube, and Skype to get their jobs done and collaborate for business. While these applications are capable of delivering significant business value, they can also introduce substantial risks to any organization, including data leakage, identify theft, malware and other threats. What should IT professionals responsible for ensuring network security do to control these applications? Download the white paper, “To Block Or Not. Is that the Question?” and enter for a chance to win the Enterprise 2.0 Party Sweepstakes. Have a chance to win one of three Grand Prizes: a Palo Alto Networks PA-500 Enterprise Firewall and company party to go along with it! Join the Party.
Palo Alto Networks’ App-ID Passes 1,000 Applications
Palo Alto Network’s App-ID now identifies and controls over 1,000 applications – all inside the firewall (as opposed to an IPS add-on). There are other elements to consider as well: quality, accuracy, and richness of the identification. A simple IPS signature that identifies a single version of a single client is not comparable to a more sophisticated, firewall-based technology like Palo Alto Networks App-ID. App-ID, for a given application, may consist of multiple signatures and heuristics. For example, Palo Alto Networks has one BitTorrent App-ID, which identifies all BitTorrent traffic, regardless of client or client version. Other vendors have a signature listed for each version of each BitTorrent-compatible client – which looks good on paper, but ultimately doesn’t matter.
What does matter is that by using a next-generation firewalls’ positive security model, organizations can enforce a policy that only enables certain applications, regardless of port, protocol, or SSL encryption. For enabled applications, organizations can then add additional security steps – like scanning for threats or confidential data. For information on all of the applications App-ID identifies, please visit Applipedia.
Palo Alto Networks Resolves New Facebook Social Plug-ins Privacy Concerns
Palo Alto Networks released new functionality that enables enterprises to control Facebook Social Plug-ins, empowering users to continue to embrace Facebook while mitigating any privacy concerns. Facebook users in enterprises are susceptible to having their confidential data shared with third parties because of recent changes at Facebook, which cause behavioral data from its users to be made available unless a user explicitly opts out. Palo Alto Networks’ new App-ID™ allows IT security teams to protect their Facebook users against the undesired data sharing while transparently preserving Facebook functionality and not breaking the functionality of other websites that rely on the Facebook Social Plug-ins. More…
Palo Alto Networks Welcomes Michael E. Lehman as CFO
On April 21st, Palo Alto Networks announced that Michael E. Lehman has been appointed chief financial officer. Lehman brings more than 35 years of senior-level financial management experience with technology companies, including CFO roles at Sun Microsystems. Read the press release.
Spring 2010 Application Usability and Risk Report is Here
The Application Usage and Risk Report (5th Edition, Spring 2010) from Palo Alto Networks summarizes traffic patterns on nearly 350 networks worldwide to reveal that the application usage is remarkably consistent. Neither geographic location or vertical industry had a significant impact on usage patterns. The data confirms that globally, the barriers to accessing an application are minimal, enabling rapid worldwide adoption, regardless of where the application was developed. Download the full report.
Live and On-Demand Webcasts
Register for an upcoming live webcast:
Or view one of new our on-demand webcasts:
- Federal Computer Week Webcast: Evolving Network Security for Today’s Network Usage and Threats
Palo Alto Networks’ VP of Product Management, Lee Klarich, leads an educational discussion of the evolution of the application and threat landscape, provides insight into why traditional firewalls are not suited to control these new applications and threats and provides advice on what organizations can do about this problem going forward. Watch now.
- SANS WhatWorks Webcast: Farm Credit Financial Partners discusses their threat prevention strategy.
Frustrated with a lack of integration with his end of life intrusion prevention system, the Information Security Director at Farm Credit Financial Partners began a search for a new solution. His choice of Palo Alto Networks offered the added benefit of a next generation firewall, as well as significant cost savings in people, software, maintenance and hardware. This on-demand webcast provides an in-depth discussion of Farm Credit’s research and evaluation of their new intrusion prevention system. Watch now.
- IANS Webcast: The (Im)perfect Perimeter: The Current State of IDS, IPS, Firewalls
With the constant influx of consumer technology and web-based applications into the enterprise, the perimeter no longer exists in its hardened fashion. Join IANS for a discussion about the current state of leading technologies and players in this variable market. This virtual discussion is ideal for risk, compliance, and security managers, as well as anyone looking for new approaches to intrusion detection systems (IDS), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and firewalls. Watch now.
Want a Quick Introduction to Palo Alto Networks?
No problem. We have three very simple, very effective ways to learn more about us.
- If you’re in a hurry, and just want to understand why our next generation firewalls are the most innovative security solutions in the industry, then check out our 3-minute flash video. Just click here and turn up your volume!
- If you want to go beyond the introduction and learn more about specific features and functions – and see a live demo of the firewall – then join us for one of our weekly 30-minute webinars. The demonstration is followed by a Q&A session to answer any specific questions you have. To join us at your convenience, please register here.
- Not available to join the weekly live webinar? We have an on-demand product overview that highlights the application visibility and policy control elements of our product.
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks 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.
For more information, visit us at www.paloaltonetworks.com.
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