As enterprise applications expand across public clouds, private data centers, and microservices, east-west traffic surges and creates blind spots. Disconnected native cloud tools and traditional firewalls cannot inspect container pod traffic or scale dynamically during spikes, leaving modern workloads vulnerable to lateral movement.
In this solution brief, discover how Palo Alto Networks software firewalls unify Layer 7 threat prevention to help security teams:
Eliminate Multicloud Complexity: Unify visibility and enforce consistent policies across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with Multicloud Security Fabric, centrally governed via Strata Cloud Manager.
Autoscale Data Center Protection: Deliver software-defined elasticity from 1 Gbps to 200 Gbps with Hyperscale Security Fabric, eliminating bottlenecks and session drops without hardware lock-in.
Protect Containers and AI Workloads: Extend runtime zero trust and Layer 7 inspection directly into Kubernetes pods and GenAI applications with Prisma AIRS.
Contain Lateral Threats: Wrap critical applications in lightweight Layer 7 microperimeters using the Traffic Redirector without disruptive network redesigns.
Palo Alto Networks software firewalls bring VM-Series, Cloud NGFW, and Prisma AIRS together under a single flexible consumption model to secure every application, wherever it runs.
