Reference Architectures

Learn how to leverage Palo Alto Networks® solutions to enable the best security outcomes. Reduce rollout time and avoid common integration efforts with our validated design and deployment guidance. These architectures are designed, tested, and documented to provide faster, predictable deployments.

Architecture Overviews

Learn how Palo Alto Networks solutions solve common security challenges.
Network Security
Zero Trust
Automation

Public Cloud

Use VM-Series and CN-Series Firewalls to bring in-line visibility, control, and protection to applications built in public cloud environments. These guides provide multiple design models that cover simple proofs-of-concept to scalable designs for large enterprises.

Public Cloud Security Overview
AWS
Azure
GCP
Containers
Hybrid Cloud

Secure Access Service Edge

SASE is the convergence of wide-area networking, or WAN, and network security services. These guides show how SD-WAN, Prisma Access, and Prisma SaaS bring visibility, control, and protection to users that are mobile and in the branch office.

SD-WAN
Prisma Access
Securing SaaS

Perimeter Security

Use on-premises Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls to provide visibility, control, and protection to your cloud-based applications when users access them from a campus or branch location.
Campus and Branch
Securing SaaS

Security Operations

Learn how Palo Alto Networks provides solutions for prevention, detection, investigation, and response to help security operations prevent threats and efficiently manage alerts. Also, learn how these solutions use artificial intelligence and machine learning to find important security events without generating low-value alerts that require analyst time, attention, and manual remediation.
AI and ML in the SOC Overview
Prevention, Detection, and Response for Security Operations

Private Data Center

Learn how to use PA-Series Next-Generation Firewalls and VM-Series Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls to secure applications and data in data centers.
Cisco ACI
NSX-T Data Center
VMware vSphere