Today, we are pleased to announce PAN-OS 8.1, the latest version of the software that powers our next-generation firewalls. This release enables you to easily adopt application-based security, removes barriers to securing encrypted traffic, simplifies management of large networks and helps you quickly identify advanced threats in conjunction with Magnifier for behavioral analytics.
Let’s look at some of these enhancements in detail.
Simplified App-Based Security
App-ID classifies all traffic, including SaaS, traversing your network so you can safely enable desired applications and block unwanted ones. PAN-OS 8.1 makes it easier to adopt and maintain an application-based security policy.
Streamlined SSL Decryption
Most enterprise web traffic is now encrypted, and attackers exploit this to hide threats from security devices. The new Decryption Broker feature removes all barriers to securing encrypted traffic. Our next-generation firewall now decrypts the traffic, applies security and load balances decrypted flows across multiple stacks of security devices for additional enforcement. This eliminates dedicated SSL off-loaders, reducing network complexity and making decryption simple to operate.
Performance Boost for Internet-Edge Security
Improved Efficiency and Performance for Management
Panorama 8.1 provides greater efficiency for teams that manage physical and virtual appliances running PAN-OS. Using variables in templates, you can now leverage common configuration across many devices while substituting device-specific values in place of IP addresses, IP ranges, FQDNs and more. With device health monitoring, Panorama provides a deployment-wide view into the health and status of your next-generation firewalls. Trending of critical system resources up to 90 days helps you identify gradual changes in your environment. Proactive monitoring automatically creates alerts when substantial changes occur in the utilization of critical device resources, ensuring you’re the first to know.
In addition, new M-600 and M-200 appliances deliver high-performance management.
Advanced Threat Detection and Prevention
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall provides effective protections you can use, automates tasks so you can focus on what matters and enables you to consume innovations quickly. The new capabilities in PAN-OS 8.1 allow you to accelerate the adoption of next-generation security best practices so you can prevent the most advanced threats and safely enable your business.
To learn more, visit our PAN-OS 8.1 security page.
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