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If you want to protect applications and workloads throughout today’s complex and interrelated environments, you need software firewalls. But, what exactly are they, and which kinds do you need for particular settings and use cases? You can better understand the extensive need and numerous use cases for virtual firewalls, container firewalls and managed cloud firewalls with our essential guide, “Software Firewalls for Dummies.”...

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Next-Generation Firewalls

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Sep 19, 2023

By Paul Carlstrom

Palo Alto Networks

Products and Services

Partners

Next-Generation Firewalls

Always Innovating: User Experience, Threat Coverage and Management

Our July 2023 edition of Always Innovating in Network Security is now here. Palo Alto Networks is always innovating to protect our customers and help them manage cyber risk. As we...

Jul 25, 2023

By Ganesh Balamitran

Next-Generation Firewalls

Palo Alto Networks and Red Hat Automate NGFW Config and Management

The varied tasks it takes to keep complex IT environments secure have moved far beyond the scope of customized, siloed processes and manual tasks. SecOps, network and DevOps teams...

Jun 27, 2023

By Lee Space

Announcement, Company & Culture, Next-Generation Firewalls, Products and Services

VM-Series Virtual Firewalls Beat Fortinet Fortigate in Miercom Testing

The lift-and-shift of applications to the cloud has accelerated the adoption of virtual firewalls over the past few years. Virtual firewalls have evol...

Mar 14, 2023

By Samaresh Nair

Products and Services

So You Want to Launch 5G — Is Your 5G Security Strategy Ready?

As enterprises rethink connectivity, they are investing in 5G networks with a focus on accelerating IoT adoption, improving productivity and increasing operational efficiencies, li...

Mar 01, 2023

By Anand Oswal

Announcement, Next-Generation Firewalls, Products and Services

Introducing New 4th Generation ML-Powered NGFWs

Cyber threats are increasing in volume and complexity, making it difficult for network defenders to protect their organizations. Threat actors are constantly evolving their tools a...

Nov 30, 2022

By Tanya Shastri

Next-Generation Firewalls, Products and Services

Palo Alto Networks Secures Nutanix Cloud Clusters for Microsoft Azure

Securing your hybrid multi-cloud environment just got easier. We are excited to announce Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Next-Generation Firewall...

Nov 21, 2022

By Mukesh Gupta

Points of View, Products and Services

Palo Alto Networks and Coordinated Enforcement for Malware

Information sharing for defense is as old as the carrier pigeon. In cybersecurity, coordinated enforcement between products has increasingly become pa...

Jun 10, 2022

By Rob Rachwald

Announcement, Next-Generation Firewalls, Points of View, Products and Services

Revolutionize Firewall Operations with Industry First AIOps for NGFW

Organizations want to get more out of their existing security investments, but they are challenged today. Network security operations largely remain m...

Mar 15, 2022

By Anand Oswal and Neha Kumar

Announcement, Next-Generation Firewalls, Products and Services

Implement NGFW Best Practices with Ease

As organizational complexity continues to increase, the attack surface that security teams must address expands parallelly. Customers struggle to configure their firewalls using ex...

Feb 18, 2022

By Vivek Sharma

Next-Generation Firewalls, Points of View, Products and Services, Zero Trust Security

Fundamentally Changing Network Security with Inline Deep Learning

When the ILOVEYOU virus hit in 2000, it was a simpler time: organizations knew when they had it and when it was gone. They also knew another attack wo...

Feb 17, 2022

By Lee Klarich

Next-Generation Firewalls, Products and Services

Get 3x Faster Security with 4th Generation Palo Alto Networks NGFWs

Now more than ever, organizations are looking for high-performance network security solutions that meet the needs of modern enterprises and match the...

Feb 09, 2022

By Anand Oswal

Hybrid Cloud Data Center, Network Perimeter, Next-Generation Firewalls, Zero Trust Security

Security without Compromise: PA-5450 (also) Beats Competition in Head-to-He...

In May 2021, we launched the PA-5450, a highly innovative, modular, and scalable ML-Powered NGFW platform designed to se...

Jan 10, 2022

By Samantha Pierre and Ganesh Balamitran

Announcement, Next-Generation Firewalls, Products and Services

Digital Tool Estimates Software Firewall Credits for Your Environment

Flexible, agile and simple, credit-based licensing is the way to go for software firewalls in virtual and container form factors. Now, with our handy...

Jan 07, 2022

By Jaimin Patel

Company & Culture, Next-Generation Firewalls, Points of View

14 Years of Innovation at Palo Alto Networks

In November 2021, for the tenth consecutive time, Palo Alto Networks was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls, positioned the highest for Abi...

Jan 05, 2022

By Lee Klarich

Data Security, IoT Security, Network Perimeter, Next-Generation Firewalls, Zero Trust Security

Addressing Apache Log4j Vulnerability with NGFW and Cloud-Delivered Securit...

Learn how our Palo Alto Networks customers can help protect against the critical Apache Log4j vulnerability with our Nex...

Dec 17, 2021

By Siddhart Shibiraj and Jason Reverri

Announcement, Points of View

The Palo Alto Networks Full-Court Defense for Apache Log4j

The recent Apache Log4j vulnerabilities are a particularly pernicious problem for two reasons. First, Apache Log4j has a very large footprint as a back-end logging library that is...

Dec 13, 2021

By Ryan Olson

Next-Generation Firewalls, Uncategorized

PAN-OS SD-WAN Simplifies Global Branch Deployments with Prisma Access Hub S...

If there’s one requirement that I hear often from customers, it’s that products must provide exceptional end user experience while being simple to ope...

Dec 09, 2021

By Nick Campagna

5G Security, Next-Generation Firewalls, Zero Trust Security

Network Security at Ignite ‘21: What to Expect

Palo Alto Networks Ignite, our company’s signature annual global event, is happening virtually November 15th to 18th. One of the six tracks that attendees can immerse themselves in is the Firewall Track, where...

Nov 11, 2021

By Ganesh Balamitran

Announcement, Next-Generation Firewalls

We Are a Ten-Time Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls

On Nov. 1, 2021, Gartner named Palo Alto Networks a Leader for the tenth consecutive time in its Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls...

Nov 08, 2021

By Anand Oswal

Network Perimeter, Next-Generation Firewalls, Zero Trust Security

Security without Compromise: PA-400 Series Beats Competition in Head-to-Hea...

In May 2021, we expanded our portfolio with the launch of the PA-400 Series ML-Powered NGFWs and extended our leadership as a nine-time Gartner Magic...

Aug 31, 2021

By Muninder Singh Sambi

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