Palo Alto Networks has unveiled several new purpose-built hardware and virtualized firewalls, in addition to major enhancements to its PAN-OS security platform.
All the newly released firewalls supports the PAN-OS version 8.0 which is packed with more than 70 new features including securing cloud deployments and SaaS applications, preventing the theft and abuse of credentials, simplifying security operations, and blocking threats.
As organizations look to modernize their physical data centers, embrace hybrid cloud environments, and apply advanced security measures across their infrastructure, they require greater performance to handle the tremendous amount of traffic generated by the growing number of users, applications and devices, said the security vendor. At the same time, the introduction of new SaaS applications running at higher throughputs further increases demand for bandwidth performance to and from the network.
To address these needs and more, six new hardware firewall appliances join the existing hardware family of 16 appliances to safely enable applications and offer threat prevention in large data centers, small branches and remote locations. In addition, the new VM-Series virtualized next-generation firewall family has been optimized and expanded with three new models to support customer organizations expanding cloud and virtualization initiatives – from virtualized branch offices to data center and service provider deployments – that require high throughput and capacity.
With the new additions, the VM-Series now represents the industry's broadest line of virtualized firewall appliances, delivering groundbreaking cloud security performance of up to 16 Gbps with App-ID technology visibility and over 10 Gbps with full threat prevention enabled.
Jeff Wilson, Senior Research Director, Cybersecurity Technology, IHS Markit
The advancements announced today by Palo Alto Networks, including their new VM-series firewalls, provide customers a critical solution that is flexible enough to facilitate efficient movement between private networks and public/private clouds as new use cases are implemented.
Lee Klarich, EVP, Product Management. Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks understands the growing performance and capacity needs as customer organizations look to expand cloud use cases and implement advanced security capabilities throughout their data centers and distributed organizations.
