Palo Alto Networks' Approach to Application Visibility and Application Control

By "fixing the firewall," Palo Alto Networks’ enterprise firewalls solve a variety of customer problems – while often simplifying enterprise security infrastructures. With the ability to control applications, users, and content at the enterprise firewall, customers realize improvements in security, performance, and cost. With Palo Alto Networks award-winning enterprise firewall technologies, organizations regain the application visibility and application control often sought, but rarely achieved with complex, expensive, traditional security infrastructures, ultimately preventing threats.

• Identify and Control Applications: Regain control over the applications on your network – good, bad, and evasive – with user-based policies.
• Prevent Threats: Stop bad applications. Scan allowed applications for all types of threats. Do it at multi-Gbps speeds.
• Simplify Security Infrastructure: Fix the firewall, regain network visibility and control, and save money. 

Application Control

Application control is as critical as identifying the applications. Attempts at regaining application control by bolstering the port-based firewall with intrusion prevention systems (IPS), URL filtering or proxies have been exercises in futility. None of these offerings are capable of seeing all the traffic on the network nor are they designed to act as the most strategic security element on the network – the firewall. Palo Alto Networks’ is restoring the firewalls’ strategic importance as the center of the security infrastructure with a family of next-generation firewalls that identify and control applications, users and content. Visibility and application control over the network is enabled by three unique technologies used in Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation firewall: App-ID, User-ID and Content-ID.

Customers around the world are regaining visibility and application control by deploying the Palo Alto Network’s next-generation firewalls in a wide range of network locations that include the perimeter, the DMZ, internally for network segmentation and in the datacenter. Follow the links below to learn more about how Palo Alto Networks can solve the kind of problems that the lack of visibility and application control can introduce.

• P2P Control: Learn how you can stop the use of P2P file sharing applications.
• Securely Enabling SharePoint:

See how you can securely enable the use of Microsoft SharePoint

• Traffic Shaping and QoS for Applications: Learn how to extend application usage policies to include traffic shaping based on a wide range of criteria including applications and users.
• URL Filtering: Learn why application control and URL filtering are the perfect mix for positively control model security policies.
• Simplify PCI Compliance: Learn how control over applications, users and content, combined with network segmentation, can reduce the complexity of PCI compliance. 

For more information contact sales@lan3.co.uk or click here to visit the Palo Alto website.