Palo Alto Networks' Next-Generation Firewalls
Palo Alto Networks has built a next-generation firewall with several innovative technologies—enabling organizations to fix the firewall. These technologies bring business-relevant elements (applications, users, and content) under policy control on a high performance firewall architecture. This technology runs on a high-performance, purpose-built platform based on Palo Alto Networks' Single-Pass Parallel Processing (SP3) Architecture. Unique to the SP3 Architecture, traffic is only examined once, using hardware with dedicated processing resources for security, networking, content scanning and management to provide line-rate, low-latency performance under load.
Core Technologies
App-ID
Classify all traffic, on all ports, all the time—irrespective of protocol, encryption or evasive tactic.
User-ID
Securely enable applications on your network based on users and groups—not just IP addresses.
Content-ID
Real-time content scanning blocks threats, controls web surfing and limits data and file transfers.
Platforms
Purpose-Built Appliances
Delivered as a purpose-built appliance, every Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall utilizes dedicated, function specific processing that is tightly integrated with a single-pass software engine. This unique combination of hardware and software maximizes network throughput while minimizing latency. Each of the hardware platforms supports the same rich set of next-generation firewall features ensuring consistent operation across the entire line.
