Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Palo Alto Networks Launches the Industry’s Fastest Next-Generation Firewall


Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, February 11th 2014 [ME NewsWire]

Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the leader in enterprise security, today announced the industry’s most powerful next-generation firewall, the PA-7050.  With next-generation firewall functions, such as full application enablement, IPS, AV and WildFire™ active on all traffic, the PA-7050 delivers consistent performance at speeds much higher than alternative offerings.  This superior consistency in performance empowers organizations to apply next-generation firewall security throughout their networks – from the edge of the enterprise to the datacenter – and ensures security does not become a barrier to achieving high network performance.

The amount of data travelling across enterprise networks continues to grow at a rapid rate, and enterprises need to ensure that data moves as quickly as possible to maintain business productivity.  This challenge is compounded by the need to apply next-generation security throughout the network to protect against sophisticated cyber attacks.  These attacks can hide in plain sight, using common applications to penetrate exterior defenses, and once inside a network, act like day-to-day traffic while stealing targeted data via applications such as FTP, webmail or veiled within SSL.

Common port-based firewalls, plus simple signature-based protection mechanisms masked as next-generation firewalls cannot safely enable applications; they only block them, and further cannot deliver adequate performance with these security features enabled.  The result: many organizations limit application of tight security controls, leaving their organizations at risk.

Palo Alto Networks addresses this challenge head-on with the PA-7050, a powerful, yet easy-to-extend and manage next-generation firewall that is designed from the ground up to deliver performance consistency with next-generation security controls enabled.

Quote:

    “The PA-7050 allows security teams to achieve two seemingly conflicting goals.  First, it provides state-of-the-art security at the application level and applies scans for attacks, malware, and exploits.  Second, because it has a unique single-pass architecture designed to optimize performance, the PA-7050 can provide all of this security capability at speeds much greater than alternatives in the market; this ensures business processes run smoothly and securely for our customers.”

-- Ercan Aydin, Director, Emerging Markets, Palo Alto Networks

For more information on the PA-7050:

            https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B176X1Rq94eubGZOV3pxa0JmeWc/edit?usp=sharing

Images:

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https://paloaltonetworks.box.com/s/vd91mocd2gi8yf76ljl4

Contacts

Nick Leighton & Anu Bhatnagar                       

NettResults Middle East Public Relations for Palo Alto Networks                                              

+971 4 409 6719                                                                                                                     

nick.leighton@nettresults.com  & anu.bhatnagar@nettresults.com

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