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Identify & Control Applications
Your network has run amok with applications you cannot see or control. Hundreds of applications are currently traversing your network and your firewall cannot see them.

Application Visibility

Streaming audio and video, file sharing, collaboration, and social networks are just a few types of applications that are capable of hopping from port to port, using encryption and non-standard ports all as a means of evading traditional firewalls. The business value these applications provide varies widely, but all of them introduce a range of risks including loss of productivity, compliance issues, threat propagation and data leakage. 

Application Control

Attempts at regaining control by bolstering the port-based firewall with IPS, URL filtering or proxies have been exercises in futility. None of these offerings are capable of seeing all the traffic on the network nor are they designed to act as the most strategic security element on the network – the firewall. Palo Alto Networks’ is restoring the firewalls’ strategic importance as the center of the security infrastructure with a family of next-generation firewalls that identify and control applications, users and content. Three unique technologies enable Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation firewall to restore visibility and control over the network: App-ID, User-ID and Content-ID.

Customers around the world are regaining visibility and control by deploying the Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall in a wide range of network locations that include the perimeter, the DMZ, internally for network segmentation and in the datacenter. Follow the links below to learn more about how Palo Alto Networks can solve the kind of problems that the lack of visibility and control can introduce.

  • P2P Control: Learn how you can stop the use of P2P file sharing applications.
  • Securely Enabling SharePoint:

    See how you can securely enable the use of Microsoft SharePoint

  • Traffic Shaping and QoS for Applications:  Learn how to extend application usage policies to include traffic shaping based on a wide range of criteria including applications and users.
  • URL Filtering:  Learn why application control and URL filtering are the perfect mix for positively control model security policies.
  • Simplify PCI Compliance: Learn how control over applications, users and content, combined with network segmentation, can reduce the complexity of PCI compliance.