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.
- App-ID is an application identification technology that classifies traffic based on the application - irrespective of port, protocol, SSL encryption, or evasive tactics.
- User-ID is a technology that integrates with Microsoft Active Directory to enable the visibility and control of application by users and groups of users – not just by IP addresses.
- Content-ID is a high performance content inspection engine that prevents a wide range of threats, blocks file transfers, data leakage and controls web surfing.
All of 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.
