We have been around since the late 50s to early 60s. We were one of the original people who helped set up the ARPANET, which was a precursor to the Internet. Historically, our science has been open science. We want everyone to have it. The mindset has been that our network is flat and open to everything, and we have slowly reeled that in. Now, more of our stuff is behind firewalls. We are now going through a project where we are doing some more segmentation within the protected part. Each lab is protected from each other, or at least can be. They still talk to each other all the time, so we have rules for that. If we need to, we can shut access down right away because of the firewalls.

It helps the organization function better by virtue of cleaner and more predictive Internet access and usage being conducted by the employees and constituents of the company. It helps ensure that they have a stronger security posture. It is preventive medicine If you have DNS Security in place. You will be happy you had it. If you don't have it, you may never need it. However, if you did need it, and didn't have it, you will wish that you did. It is one of those things, like insurance.

The most significant benefit is threat protection. Anti-malware uses signatures, so dynamic analyzers like WildFire are the best way to protect the company. It is a firewall based on application control, user ID, and security policy. We can use it based on user and application ID without a stateless firewall or TCPIP ports.

Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls have security functionality like a traditional IPS system. You can configure it to download new signatures from the threat intel cloud every five minutes. We also have data filtering, disk protection, SD-1, and machine learning functions. We only have one full working path on a Palo Alto Networks solution, but it is not a classic UTM. In a traditional UTM, checks occur in a series, but everything in Palo Alto Networks is inspected in parallel. 

The solution ties into existing services. We offer network-based services and SD-WAN overlay. We use VeloCloud appliances and put the solution at the heart of that to provide Next-Gen security capability. The solution benefits our clients by reducing the number of firewalls required in their organization, which is hosted in Azure. The solution's aggregation gives us the ability to service our clients by reducing their firewall footprint. The solution also enables us to route all traffic, including internet outbound traffic from a client's side onto Palo Alto NG Firewalls across an ExpressRoute connection.

Palo Alto NG Firewalls provide a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities.

In combination with additional tools and services we offer, the solution makes a significant contribution to eliminating security holes.

The solution helps eliminate multiple network security tools and the effort required to have them work together. The solution simplified our operations. We only support and deliver Palo Alto NG firewalls as a service. We don't offer a firewall as a service on any other appliance. We chose Palo Alto because of its Next-Gen capabilities and being the market leader in terms of security appliances. 

In the event that Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls detect evolving and rapidly moving threats, we get help from the Palo Alto teams to resolve the issues. We do the level one troubleshooting and then open a tactic attempt to pass that to tech managers for resolution.

Previously, there were a couple of limited features available from GlobalProtect. However, after introducing these new features, the solution has been very helpful for us. This is very important.

We are a telecommunication service provider and we offer many IT services to our customers. The recent attack has made it very important for us to take precautions. Having a unified platform for our organization is an integral part of being able to identify and address attacks quickly.

My colleague likes to tell our clients that none of his customers who installed a Palo Alto have ever had a ransomware attack. I'm always nervous when he says that because things change so fast. However, it gives people peace of mind that they're protected at the network's edge. 

The firewall is going to do everything possible to protect resources and data. We have customers with social security numbers, HIPAA data, and other sensitive customer information. Other products don't seem to provide the same level of protection and leave customers open to malware or ransomware attacks.

Palo Alto has many features to protect against data leakage and unauthorized downloads, so it can do quite a lot to protect a network against any attack. The leadership at our client companies feel reassured that they've done what they can with the best solution out there to protect themselves.

Smart people always do stupid things, like clicking on something they shouldn't. They often realize their mistake five minutes or five seconds after doing it. We've seen what these mistakes can quickly do to an organization. Palo Alto's features help you prevent those types of things from happening. You can immediately block suspicious file downloads and push those up to Palo Alto to investigate. You can get ahead of the problem and help other folks who might not have seen that attack.

NG Firewalls provide a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities. Having all those features in one platform at the edge is essential. That's a massive component of the customers' overall security structure. It isn't everything, but it protects the edge of the network. 

It does not prevent someone from getting their company laptop infected at home and infecting the network when they come to the office the next day. That's where other pieces come into play to make an overall security structure. The firewall is designed to protect everything at the edge and has everything you need to do that. It protects you at the edges and provides reports that give people information about what's happening on the network at a given time and date. 

NG Firewalls take care of any holes in the client's network and reduces the number of security tools needed. A decade ago, deploying these types of tools required multiple devices, whether that was Barracuda email, firewall, and an intrusion detection platform. Generally, people had antivirus and anti-spyware systems running in their enterprises. All of that is now integrated into the Palo Alto Firewall platform. 

The antivirus and anti-spyware features are as good as anything out there. It's updated constantly, so any novel threats are automatically detected. On top of all these features, it provides a solid edge platform that incorporates all of the security features necessary in that edge component.

One of our key challenges was for the PCI, the new standard 3.1. There's a requirement that financial applications need to have some sort of zero trust architecture. They need to be completely segregated. We implemented zero trust using Palo Alto so that if we are within the same subnet within the network, we have protection.

The unified platform helps us eliminate security holes. We use another product from Palo Alto, called WildFire, which is basically sandboxing. We have layers of products. Because of WildFire, we're able to identify any weaknesses in the upper layers.

We give a copy of the same packet to WildFire, and this helps us identify things that were bypassed, such as malware or malicious files. It's especially helpful when we're transferring files, like on SMB, because it's integrated.

The unified platform helps eliminate multiple network securities, and the effort needed to get them to work with each other. It's a very good product for us because it fits well in our ecosystem. 

Our other vendor is Fortinet. Previously, we struggled with having multiple products. One of them was command-line based and the other one was web-based. The engineers would have some difficulty because not everyone is good with a command line platform. Palo Alto and Fortinet are both managed by the UI and they're very similar products. They work well with each other, so we use certain capabilities here and there.

For example, for some internet browsing, we generally have a separate solution for our proxy, but there are situations where we need to provide direct internet access to a particular server in a certain situation. The problem is when a particular product does not work with the proxy for some reason. This is where we use Palo Alto's web filtering. If we didn't have a solution that could do this, it would be difficult on our side because how can we provide direct access to the server without securities?

When browsing, the logs provide us with the required information. For example, we allow certain URLs to a particular server, and we have that data also. This goes back into our same solution. With Palo Alto, the connectors are built in.

Our Palo Alto Firewall has the zero-delay signatures feature implemented. For the IPS capability, we rely completely on Palo Alto. If we don't have this implemented and there's a new, ongoing attack, we will be exposed. We make sure there are controls on the policies we have on each layer.

Even if a patch is released for that particular issue, it would take us time to implement it. We actually rely on the network layer, which is our Palo Alto box, to prevent that in case someone tries to exploit it. In the meantime, we would patch it in the background.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls' advanced machine learning capabilities offer real-time attack prevention and are crucial in our security setup. We implemented a multi-layered security approach and are currently working towards a zero-trust model, including defense for development. According to the Gartner report, Palo Alto ranks second after Check Point, highlighting the significance of security in our environment.

We access all the firewalls via Panorama. We configured certain global user profiles to allow access to our site for remote or work-from-home situations, which we then access through GlobalProtect.

Before we started to use Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, we had a different FortiGate firewall that presented several issues such as deep security URL filtering and throughput issues. However, with Palo Alto, we were able to address these problems, particularly with the use of parallel processing. We have successfully deployed inbound and outbound SSL inspection, as well as different URL filtering, making Palo Alto a more resilient option compared to other products.

It is important the solution provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities. Compared to other products, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls' unified platform is a ten out of ten and suitable for all environments. 

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls help fill security leaks by enhancing confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls help automate multiple security tools and unify them.

The solution assisted us with managing our network operations and reducing related costs. We use various Network Management Systems to monitor our network, including Palo Alto which we monitor from its dashboard. Additionally, we use various Security Operations Center solutions, as well as SolarWinds. We also utilize different monitoring platforms to track network traffic.

The WildFire feature offers protection against Zero-Day attacks, and we find that Palo Alto is a valuable tool for mitigating such attacks using WildFire.

Palo Alto's single architecture provides parallel processing and reliability as well as superior visibility compared to other products. The reporting feature is excellent and can impress management during presentations or when accessing logs.

The biggest benefit we have seen from it is the ability to identify the traffic of our networks based on the application ID that Palo Alto can provide. Palo Alto firewalls have the most extensive App-ID library, so we are able to identify which applications are necessary for business and which ones are not. We can then block those that are not crucial for business at the firewall itself, so App-ID in the firewall was the biggest benefit to us.

Palo Alto NGFW embeds machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention, which is important and very helpful. I wouldn't be able to compare it to any other product because we have used Palo Alto for eight years, but the machine learning that they have embedded into their OS has been very helpful. Based on the learning that they have done, they have been able to analyze the traffic and coordinate traffic patterns to alert us about possible malware and even block it.

It provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities. Palo Alto NGFW has been able to give us all that we need from one particular appliance itself. If we wanted, we could have also used the DNS feature, and in that case, one device could have met all our needs.

Because it's a unified platform, management is easy. You have to learn only one particular management interface. Once our IT team gets familiar with the management interface, it's easier for them to apply security policies, monitor the traffic, and manage the plans using the same GUI. There are no learning curves for different products.

We try to keep our security fairly tight. The policies that we have created on the Palo Alto NGFW have been based on security requirements. As of now, we haven't detected anything that would point to a hole in our environment, so it is very hard to say whether Palo Alto NGFW’s unified platform helped to eliminate any security holes.

It has helped to eliminate multiple network security tools and the effort needed to get them to work together with each other. It has helped us consolidate into one vendor. Earlier, we used to have an appliance for the firewall, and then we had an appliance for VPN. We had a separate appliance for the collection and correlation of data. We have eliminated all of those. They are now in one box. The same firewall gives us security policies and lets us collect all the data about the traffic flowing in and out of the network and correlate events. It has helped us eliminate the VPN appliances that we were using in the past. It has helped us to eliminate two other vendors and bring all the services into one.

The single-pass architecture is good. Everything is analyzed just once, so it improves the performance. 

The predictive analytics and machine learning for blocking DNS-related attacks keep track of IP addresses and DNS names from other countries requesting access to our resources. The solution helps us identify any malicious activity and maintain our network safety. We first check the DNS issue and put it into the blacklist. If we get a similar DNS issue from another country in the future, we block the IP range altogether.

Apart from traditional technologies, we have been relying on signature-based identities. For example, we have been following up on what is in the data system and the firewall. These systems can only detect what has already been returned by the data system. If any security vendor does not update its databases or firewalls, or if its upgrades or firmware are not up to date, then malicious attacks can occur. The advantage of Palo Alto is its real-time analysis, as opposed to traditional methods that use signatures. Palo Alto Network NG Firewall has come up with some great behavioral analytics and the Wildfire feature, which helps organizations stay safe from false positive notifications or alerts.

The unified platform helps eliminate security gaps. We had certain servers that we hosted with open ports and we needed to ensure that these ports were closed. When we first set up the solution in the production environment for testing purposes, we detected traffic coming from ports on the server that had not been identified by our previous firewall. Palo Alto Network NG Firewalls uses all of its resources to detect security threats. The solution helps our organization close security vulnerabilities, Palo Alto Network NG Firewalls provide us with the instruments we need to complete our job. 

The unified platform helped eliminate multiple network security tools and the effort needed to get them to work together. We need to be able to detect the type of traffic being generated from which applications are on which systems and by which users. This will help us identify which IPs are making the requests. Previously we had to rely on multiple tools to collect this information. Palo Alto Network NG Firewalls also provide one graphical interface to display all the information. The solution simplified the process by dropping two to three tools and giving us a clear view of some first-hand data, especially data that has been preliminarily investigated in the case of cybercrime, which is essential.

Security is our primary concern which we build our networking concept around and networking is secondary. We have a single sign-on agent and a dedicated service to run the firewalls. Our architecture is set up in a way that, if a DDoS attack occurs, all the traffic would go down and we have to be prepared. When we consider both the network and security features, we are more inclined toward the security side. Our clients are usually understanding if the downtime is only two to ten minutes and we can recover quickly. 

There are no actual delays happening on the side of setting the solution up because we have all the resources documented on YouTube and on the website itself. We haven't experienced any delays in identifying and collecting the documents or installing the server. However, once we began the onboarding process, some technical issues arose. We forgot to include a customer's request for support from Palo Alto and as a result, the customer executed support themselves either through our website or a call, but a customer service agent acknowledged and resolved the request quickly. Because of that issue, we have been able to allocate adequate resources for implementation. We feel as if we are receiving premium service.

It has a very good security database for attack prevention. There are many security breaches, and most of the 2022 security breaches use automation. It has a really good automation engine that clearly prevents new types of attacks. We recently avoided an attack with Palo Alto.

DNS security is super good in this. Its DNS attack coverage is 40% more, and it can disrupt 80% of attacks that use DNS. Without requiring any change in your infrastructure, you can avoid the attacks. With this Palo Alto firewall, we are able to manage DNS security in a single device because it has single-pass architecture.

It provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities. It has a VPN. We don't need to go for additional security features or devices in our environment. It is an all-in-one solution. With other firewalls, such as FortiGate, you require separate licenses. For example, for high availability, you would require an additional license, which is not the case with Palo Alto. In this way, Palo Alto is completely in line with our budget requirements. We are also planning to go with the higher version of Palo Alto firewalls in our environments.

It has helped to eliminate security holes. It creates a usage pattern with its machine learning and artificial intelligence features. It uses a good amount of artificial intelligence to create a pattern. If there are any changes in the usage pattern, it notifies us, and we are able to take action.

In our environment, we are running a lot of production servers. So, we cannot compromise on security. We give more priority to security than performance in our architecture. We put 70% focus on security and 30% on performance. Palo Alto completely suits our requirements. They have three-tier security. We can see the application layer traffic, network layer traffic, and session layer traffic.

It integrates perfectly. It integrates with SIEM solutions such as Darktrace. For log analysis, we are able to completely retrieve the logs.

Having embedded machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline real-time attack prevention is something that will greatly enhance our abilities and some of the things that we're doing. We deal with it daily now, versus a time when an incident only occurred every so often. In fact, we see incidents all the time, which include things like phishing attacks. Having some of the functionality inside the firewall  

I would rate Palo Alto's machine learning capability, which secures our network against rapidly evolving threats, pretty high. We own a product that I want to get rid of by Cisco, called Stealthwatch. It generates alerts and it's really built for East-West traffic. Of the alerts that we get, 99.9% of them are already blocked by the firewall. I'm not really worried about my North-South traffic because Palo Alto is there. For what they have in the box and the different subscription models, I'm not worried because Palo Alto does such an excellent job of catching stuff.

The biggest improvement to our organization since implementing Palo Alto is that there are a lot of things I no longer have to worry about. There are a lot of things that I used to do, that I don't have to do anymore. For example, I don't have to worry about putting up a honeypot. It's superfluous now because I've got default deny and there is no sense in opening up the border to allow people to come onto my network just to go to the honeypot.

The basic IDS/IPS is taken care of, so I don't need to purchase a product like FireEye. I'm not worried about my core, critical systems.

This next-gen firewall platform has definitely helped us to eliminate security holes. Comparing it to Cisco, which is port-based, a port can be spoofed. This is something that we see every day. When going from a port-based paradigm to an application-based paradigm, there is no comparison. It is more granular, which allows me to be more specific about, for example, port 80 traffic. Port 80 has any number of applications that it can be but if I specify applications, I can pick up all of the port 80 traffic. This means that I can make sure that they cannot spoof an SSH connection as a port 80 connection.

As a growing shop, we have been trying to integrate and get something that we can use as a single pane of glass, and we're getting there. Palo Alto has helped a lot. For example, the new feature for us is the data lake, which allows us to send logs anywhere. This is something that we couldn't do before, so this solution has enabled us to do a little bit more and get rid of some tools.

I don't feel that there is much of a trade-off between security and network performance. Our layer-two network is very robust and I build around them. The architecture is based on what our networking can do, capacity-wise. We haven't had to adjust anything, even when we were running the smaller Palo Alto units, to make things function.

We are required to provide our network test results to our central bank, and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls offer a robust report for this purpose that would otherwise be a cumbersome human task.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls' embedded machine learning is very important. Every packet is inspected by the firewall, and if it is heuristic or contains a virus or some other unknown packet, it is sent to the Wildfire feature for review. If the packet is safe, it is allowed to pass through, otherwise, a signature is left to protect the organization. The updated signature is then sent to the entire network for the same packet.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls machine learning helps secure our networks against threats that are able to evolve rapidly.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls DNS security helps prevent DNS-related attacks in combination with our policies and machine learning.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls provide a unified platform that integrates with all security capabilities.

The zero-delay security feature with cloud technology is able to immediately releases the signature and update the database.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls single-pass architecture has fast processing and security because of the separate models. The networking speeds rely more on the routers, not the firewall.

Historically, DNS would have been from local providers. Now, having a centralized DNS allows us to make sure there are no issues of DNS cache poisoning and DNS exfiltration. 

The solution has definitely helped us with the security holes around visibility and uniform policy deployments across the estate. Unified, centralized configuration management definitely helps us reduce the risk by having a central place where we can create a policy, and it is deployed everywhere, without the risk of human mistakes creeping in, e.g., typo mistakes creeping into configurations.

We are using it on Azure Cloud as an internal firewall for filtering the east-west traffic. At the same time, we are using this firewall as a second-layer firewall in our perimeter for filtering the application URL and other things for the users. We are using another firewall as a perimeter for the DMZ. So, all internal applications that are connecting users are connecting through this firewall. We have other vendors as well, but the main applications are going through the Palo Alto firewall.

Its predictive analytics work very well for blocking DNS-related attacks. We are moving malicious URLs to the unknown IP in the network. They are reconfigured.

Its DNS security for protection against sneakier attack techniques, such as DNS tunneling, is good.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls machine learning secures our network against threats that evolve rapidly.

The DNS security feature is already commonly used for authentication by clients, with many threats being pushed from the inside to the outside. DNS security helps improve our network.

The DNS security feature is integral in protecting against DNS tunneling.

The solution provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls' unified platform helps us eliminate security threats. We use all the Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls' features including the UTM, WiFi, and VPN feature to protect our network. 

Both the network performance and security of the single-pass architecture are good. 

It has a solid network security with some robust tools. We can block unexpected attacks, especially zero-day attacks. Since they use the Pan-OS engine, they can collect attacks from all over the world and analyze them. They can then protect against zero-day attacks and unexpected attacks.

There are regular signature updates. You are filtering your objects from external sources. It has also helped to prevent external attacks more quickly. We have the solution enabled to prevent SQL injection attacks.

Palo Alto blocks loopholes where we cannot fix all our vulnerabilities, providing protection.

We reduced access to unwanted websites by 80%. It allows us to optimize user efficiency. For example, I have restricted the calling feature on LinkedIn, so people can still use LinkedIn, but they aren't able to dial out or receive calls.

We restricted social media sites so that only basic features can be used. The monitoring functionality allows us to see which users are using which websites,  the frequency, and the level of usage. It improves the network monitoring in our organization and gives us the required control level to restrict user access.

Palo Alto Next-Gen Firewall has Panorama, which is a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities, but I haven't worked with it yet.

The unified platform gives us more visibility and restricts unwanted guests and unwanted traffic. It gives us more insight into network traffic so that we can analyze it.

It helps eliminate multiple network security tools and the effort needed to get them to work together. Previously, I used other network monitoring tools for bandwidth monitoring. Now, the security features and wireless detection are in a single platform, so it definitely reduces the need for multiple platforms.

It has affected our network operations and network-related costs, but it's not the main benefit. The main benefit is the visibility and not having to maintain or manage multiple platforms. It's a bit costly because it has a lot of features, and each feature has a cost. It's important to do a cost-benefit analysis and know the requirements of your organization. We don't have to manage five to seven platforms and we're getting all the information in a single platform, so we can compromise a little bit on the cost side.

The most important benefit is that we can manage VPNs inside this firewall. We have integrated it with Active Directory. We provide a certificate to a user, and the user of the certificate can connect with the GlobalProtect VPN, which is a Palo Alto solution. With this solution, we can easily manage about 1,000 VPNs daily. It supports integration with Active Directory, and it is very easy for us to manage the VPNs. Before using Palo Alto Next-Generation firewalls, there was another solution, and we had a lot of issues with that.

Palo Alto NGFW provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities. Our main customer is going for PCI certification, and a part of the certification requires the use of these kinds of firewalls to protect all the information that they have.

Palo Alto NGFW’s unified platform helped to eliminate security holes and protect from various threats. 

We have firewalls that automatically update the signatures every 15 minutes. It is very important for us because if something happens, we know that the threat will be eliminated because the firewall is updated to the latest signatures.

One of the key benefits is that it enables us to secure environments that may pose more significant security challenges.

The IT operations side provides us with more freedom as we don't have to worry about it as much due to the automated alerts and detection.

It increased visibility, and we can see things that we couldn't see before and are able to decrypt as well. We can actually see what's going on in our network.

This solution helps us standardize. We have a presence in the Americas, the Pacific, and Europe and have to manage three firewalls. The previous solution made it difficult to standardize, but with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, it's a little simpler. It just makes it a pleasant experience overall.

Palo Alto NG Firewalls help you a lot to have a context of everything. With traditional firewalls or Layer 3 firewalls, we're more focused to determine the source and destination IPs on a specific port. It could be USB or something else, but with next-generation firewalls, you can have more information, such as the user who used it, as well as the application consumed by this user. That's a genuine value that these next-generation firewalls bring in understanding that a user on the network is consuming Port 443 but using Facebook. It is determined by the payload. It can examine the packet, check the payload, and identify the applications. The next-generation firewalls are also more focused on protection.

There are new features that are based on machine learning to protect your network and identify any vulnerabilities. They are pretty good too. With the normal firewalls that we have, the policies are based on ports and IP source and destination. For example, as a part of my policy, I have allowed UDP ports 145 or 345, and for authentication, I have allowed LDAP and other protocols. However, there is a possibility of a breach. Even if I have determined that the traffic is from my active directory servers to the users, when I internally open ports 145 and 345 for all the protocols and all the applications, it creates a vulnerability in my network. If I create the specific rule where I establish that my application is going to be LDAP, and these ports will only be open for LDAP, I am closing the gap. I'm making my network safer, and I'm being more specific and more granular. That's the detail we need nowadays to prevent different types of attacks. The idea is to be more specific and only give the permissions that are needed. We should try to avoid giving more privileges because that creates a vulnerability gap. The customers appreciate being specific and having very descriptive rules for their use cases and blocking other types of communications, which is not that good with normal firewalls.

Palo Alto NG Firewalls embed machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention, which is very important. Attackers are innovating every moment, and the attacks are becoming more sophisticated and unpredictable. They are not as predictable as they were in the past. Therefore, it is important to have something at the back in the form of machine learning to help you to interpret and analyze any kind of attack in real-time and protect you from a breach. Technology is very important because you can lose a lot of money or information if you don't have a good security posture and the right tools to prevent a breach or attack.

The machine learning in Palo Alto NG Firewalls is helpful for securing your networks against threats that are able to evolve and morph rapidly. They have advanced threat prevention and advanced URL filtering. WildFire is also useful. It gives you an analysis of malicious files. It detects the files in the sandbox and lets you know in minutes if a new file could be malware, which is helpful for advanced threat prevention. It can quickly give you a lot of context and protection.

DNS security is something that is the focus and a part of the threat prevention profile, and you get different types of options. They collect a lot of information from the experience of other users to determine different problems, such as a malicious page or domain, and use advanced predictive analysis and machine learning to instantly block DNS-related attacks. Their Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team helps the security teams a lot to determine and prevent threats. I haven't had any issue with DNS security. Generally, we recommend the step-by-step approach during the implementation. We recommend starting with a couple of users, analyzing the traffic, and ensuring that the signatures are accurate and policies are established. You have an option to put exceptions for DNS signatures, but in my experience, I didn't have to make many exceptions. You can definitely do it, but it is generally very accurate.

DNS Security provides protection against sneakier attack techniques like DNS tunneling. For DNS tunneling, my approach is to use an SSH proxy. There is a feature in Palo Alto to decrypt SSH traffic and block the application. For example, you see it as SSH, but after you decrypt that traffic, you can see it as SSH tunneling and you can actually block it. You can put things like a sinkhole in order to prevent this traffic.

Palo Alto NG Firewalls provide a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities, which is very important. You get a lot of information. For example, in the monitor tab, you can review whether files are transmitted or not, received or not. You can also see the logs related to a threat or a URL that is malicious or is being blocked by your profiles. You have all that information in your hand, and you can review it in a very organized way, which has been very valuable for me. It helped me a lot to understand the problems that a customer can have in the field.

Palo Alto NG Firewalls allow you to enable all logical firewalling functions on a
single platform. You can segment your network into Zones. With Zones, you can separate and allow the traffic in a more specific way. For example, you can separate your visitors or guests into different zones. It is helpful in terms of the cost. This is something that could help you to reduce the cost because you don't have to put in a lot of tools for doing the same thing, but it is something that I'm not an expert in.

A couple of years ago, we removed the explicit proxy for the servers and made the proxy transparent for the servers. We were able to make it softer for the servers' web filtering.

The key factor here is reliability. In my previous company, we had a different vendor's firewall before switching to Palo Alto network devices. 

Unfortunately, during that time, our security team was on vacation and had to be called back urgently due to a severe incident. This experience led us to switch to a more dependable, reliable, and robust system, which turned out to be the Palo Alto network device. 

Fortunately, the transition from our old system to the new one was relatively seamless, and we now have a reliable and robust security infrastructure.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls embed machine learning into the core of the firewall to provide real-time attack prevention, which is wonderful.

We check the machine learning logs to secure our networks against threats that are able to evolve more rapidly. 

I find the solution to be comfortable and easy to use. While I cannot completely authenticate my devices, I am able to distinguish between private devices and use them for authentication in some way, which is very helpful. The URL filtering feature is also helpful and I am very satisfied with the firewall delivery.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls provide a unified platform that natively integrates all our security capabilities through Cortex XDR.

I give the solution's single-pass architecture for performance and security an eight out of ten.

There have been a lot of improvements from security to service.

It is critical that Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls embeds machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention. In my environments, we have an integration with a third-party vendor. As soon as there is new information about new threats and the destination that they are trying to reach on any of our network devices, that traffic will be stopped.

With Palo Alto NG Firewalls, we can pass all compliance requirements. We trust it and we are building the security of our environment based on it. We feel that we are secure in our network.

It also provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities. It's very important because it gives us one solution that covers all aspects of security. The unified platform helps to eliminate security holes by enabling detection. It helps us to manage edge access to our network from outside sources on the internet and we can do so per application. It also provides URL filtering. The unified platform has helped to eliminate multiple network security tools and the effort needed to get them to work together with each other. In one appliance it combines URL filtering, intrusion prevention and detection, general firewall rules, and reporting. It combines all of those tools in one appliance. As a result, our network operations are better because we have a single point of view for our firewall and all related security issues. It's definitely a benefit that we don't need different appliances, different interfaces, and different configurations. Everything is managed from one place.

Suppose a packet enters our organization with a new, unknown signature. In that case, the firewall can upload it to the primary database and generate user alerts to inform users of the malicious signature, blocking it if necessary.

The solution helped us meet our security requirements.

When you apply App-ID and User-ID and Content-ID, you will protect your environment more than with any other firewall. That's because Palo Alto is a leader in App-ID. They invented it. It knows the application and who's communicating with it, and how it is used inside a network. If you use Palo Alto as your internet firewall, for example, when your employee accesses the internet, you will determine which applications he's communicating with, including which ports and the behavior of the user. That helps protect your environment.

The Palo Alto NG Firewalls unified platform has helped to eliminate security holes in our customers' environments. When you have multiple firewalls from Palo Alto to protect more than one segment, such as the LAN, WAN, internet, and data center segments, you can manage all of these from a single point with Palo Alto Panorama. It makes it easy to configure and monitor all of these segments.

The previous brand we used had a steeper learning curve for our engineers and analysts compared to Palo Alto, which is easier to use. 

We also have an excellent partner in Costa Rica who works with Palo Alto's team there, providing valuable support. Overall, our experience with Palo Alto has been very positive.

Layer 3 and Layer 4 are part of the core functionality of any firewall, but this firewall brings more information into the inspection via Layer 7. Thus, the entire threat landscape has changed for us as a company.

We can integrate all the Palo Alto firewalls to have a single insight experience across all firewalls.

On a major scale, Palo Alto NGFW can be helpful in eliminating some security tools. It doesn't eliminate all of our other security tools, but it does bring down the dependency on some tools.

Security and network performance are of equal importance to us. This solution doesn't compromise your network's performance for security, which is a good trade-off.

With single-pass architecture, there isn't a trade-off between security and network performance. The device functions well in terms of both security and network performance together.

We've seen better throughput compared to our previous firewall. End-users are happier with their connections through Palo Alto. 

When you have the advanced URL protection enabled on a Palo Alto NG Firewall, the load on the application layer is reduced. The web application firewall features are already enabled in Palo Alto and those features give you an extra layer of protection, even if you have another technology above the Palo Alto firewall. That extra layer of protection is an opportunity that we have with Palo Alto.

The single pass architecture has helped a lot in the implementation and maintenance of Palo Alto Networks. It changed the customer's opinion on UTM platforms. In the past, when customers used UTM platforms, they feared the security features would impact the performance and slow down the network, causing some instability. However, with the single pass architecture, Palo Alto has demonstrated that you can use a lot of the security features without having an impact on the security and network performance. Therefore, most of our customers will dare to use most of Palo Alto Networks' security features.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls use machine learning embedded in the core of the firewall to provide in-line, real-time attack prevention.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls use predictive analytics and machine learning to instantly block DNS-related attacks. The data for attacks or prevention is based on a segmented mask. Palo Alto Networks also keeps signatures updated on a holiday and on the Palo Alto Network and cloud. This helps to prevent signature leaks and secures dynamic web applications.

The solution is able to detect and resolve the initial tunneling attack.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls are constantly being updated with new feature packages, and the improvements are the best we have seen compared to any other product in the industry. This is due to the company's deep knowledge of technology and the field.

The solution provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities. The ability to integrate all of the capabilities is good because it is ready to use right out of the box. Additionally, it is an ECPU. The security is quite robust.

The unified platform helps to eliminate security holes in our organization by providing multiple layers of security. This is important because it can help to prevent any attack.

The unified platform helps eliminate the need for multiple network security tools and the effort required to get them working together. If we are filtering traffic using any other firewall, we will be using different processing methods. However, when we use a firewall or a third-party tool, it then has access to the restriction using the firewall. We can then use this feature to centralize and combine with this.

The zero-delay signature feature handles Wi-Fi. It analyzes each file type that is downloaded during a session and then sends the file analysis signature to the file cloud. This has made our network more secure.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls' single pass architecture provides greater security and performance because all security functions are consolidated into a single device.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls enabled us to have better visibility overall.

The solution's embedded machine learning in the core of the firewall that provides in-line real-time attack prevention is important and provides good insight for us. The machine learning actions and learning activities provide some useful information. 

The solution's machine learning for securing our networks against rapidly evolving threats is good. We utilize an IoT tool that comprehends IoT devices, such as webcams, and can therefore interpret their behavior and send information on their activity. The tool also applies appropriate firewall rules to these devices, taking into account the clearance level of each device based on its traffic.

Before implementing Palo Alto, we had to rely on a management company to handle our firewall security. However, now that we have Palo Alto, we can manage our firewall security in-house.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls unified platform helped to eliminate security holes.

The zero-delay signature feature helps keep our security updated against new attacks.

By using Prisma Access, we can easily connect to our network from different locations around the world without having to deploy multiple firewalls. This not only makes it more convenient but also saves us a lot of expenses.

Security, visibility and control, you can secure your environment from many types of attacks such as virus, malware, DoS attacks, intrusions, bad URLs, bad domains with basic DNS security which it an awesome feature.Visibility, that you will be aware of the is going on inside your network, such as malicious activities, decrypt the encrypted packets, as well as policy audit review.

This solution has really helped the technical engineers to deliver the implementation faster than the before.

Palo Alto enables telemetry and enriches their systems to protect our network against threats, which is why machine learning helps us secure our network.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls have enhanced our security by around 20 percent.

The solution provides a unified platform that natively integrates all of our security capabilities.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls help eliminate security holes by stopping all the known and unknown vulnerabilities that we are seeing in our network.

The single-path architecture has improved performance and latency.

In general, it's one of the better firewall brands out there. It definitely has the investment and the dedication of the Palo Alto team to constantly improve their product and move forward. They're not a static company, like some of the other companies out there, and that's why I like them.

From a firewall perspective, there is a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities, which is good because there is a single pane of glass. I don't have to go to every single firewall to look at certain things. I don't have to go to every single firewall to deploy rules. I can use Panorama to deploy the rules, so it's a one-stop job type of thing.

For securing data centers consistently across all workplaces, all next-gen firewalls pipe into the same Panorama centralized management solution. We can manage everything from a single pane of glass, deploy all that out, and make sure it goes through each firewall and updates correctly. That's huge. If you had to do it manually and you had thirty locations, that'd be like a day's job versus thirty minutes.

Having a centralized platform where they all feed into the Panorama solution significantly drops firewall-by-firewall management. We can use the Panorama solution to communicate with all of them.

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall comes with full visibility into the network traffic. The administrator of this next-generation firewall can troubleshoot the traffic, network issues, or connectivity issues that busted through the Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall, then detect whether the problem is from the client side or the server side. This solution helps the administrator to troubleshoot and have their network up and running all of the time.

Embedded machine learning is important.

The user experience is good and the configuration is very easy.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls provide a unified platform that natively integrates security capabilities.

It provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities. This communication between security devices or security platforms is pretty important.

It helps to reduce downtime in our organization, but I don't have the metrics.

With its single pane of glass, it makes monitoring and troubleshooting a bit more homogeneous. We are not looking at multiple platforms and monitoring management tools. It is more efficient from that perspective. It is more of a common monitoring and control system for multiple aspects of what used to be different systems. It provides efficiency and time savings.

Since we've integrated it into our east-west traffic and north-south traffic, I feel that it has reduced the number of viruses or other things in our endpoints. I wish to expand it more all the way to our endpoint computers so that we have end-to-end firewall security through Palo Alto.

It provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities. This is very important to me because I'm in IT infrastructure. I take care of the entire operations network and everything that flows north and south, east and west, and inside and out of our data center. It's very important that we have Palo Alto to protect us.

It embeds machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention. When any packet comes through the network, everything is like a first pass. It goes through every single part of our network, and we don't have a delay in alerts or network security. It stops any attack on the line.

It gives visibility into different threats. There is a wide range of threats that can be identified.

We collect logs from Palo Alto into our Rapid7 SIEM solution. It's pretty well integrated. This integration is important because we don't necessarily want a solution from the same vendor. I know Palo Alto has Cortex for collection. Being open to other vendors in order to ingest the data or logs is a great thing.

Palo Alto has embedded machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention, which is important because AI is the future. All cybersecurity companies are going to start using it. It's definitely a good thing. We just need to make sure that there's still the human component because AI can still fail.

Palo Alto has a wide range of different appliances or virtual machines. It can be installed anywhere from a small branch to a data center. It helps to secure small businesses to large enterprises.

As a firewall, it effectively protects our environment from threats.

The overall security of the organization has been improved.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls saves our company time and resources, which equals money.

We are currently using Palo Alto in our national data center, which is a large Tier Three data center. As all communication is now going through APIs, it would be beneficial to improve Palo Alto by adding an API scanner in the future.

Previously, with our old firewalls, we did not have any visibility. The application layer was zero. We didn't have any visibility there. And we also didn't have any reports. Now, we have good visibility and we are able to get reports and we can monitor the network much better. That's a big change for us and a big help.

Solutions like firewalls and routers improve any company. If you don't have them, then I wouldn't be doing business with you. 

Palo Alto has embedded machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention. That's big. We're embedding that type of security and information into every part of our corporate network as well as our products.

It has helped to reduce downtime in our organization. The savings are probably in single digits.

I don't believe there is a significant difference. It is similar to any Google firewall product in that it works as long as they are reliable.

The firewalls improved our organization. Creating firewall rules is much simpler. The solution is so straightforward that customers can configure it themselves, and they rarely call us for that, which is great for us as a support company. It makes our job much easier as Palo Alto NGFWs don't require a security specialist to configure; it can be done by systems engineers or IT support staff. 

We have quite a number of security pieces that are implemented for our network, such as a DNS piece, although we're not using Palo Alto for that purpose. But with that, in line with our seam, we're able to better distinguish what normal traffic looks like versus what a potential threat would look like. That's how we're leveraging the NG Firewalls. Also, we have separated the network for our databases and we only allow specific users or specific applications to communicate with them. They're not using the traditional port base, they're using application-aware ports to make sure that the traffic that has come in is what it says it is.

Machine learning in Palo Alto's firewalls, for securing networks against threats that are able to evolve and morph rapidly, has helped us out significantly, in implementation with different security software and processes. The combination allows our security analysts to determine the type of traffic that is flowing through our network and to our devices. We're able to collect the logs that Palo Alto generates to determine if there's any type of intrusion in our network.

It has strengthened our security policies and made our environment more secure. It has provided us more security features. Due to the rules that we have created on Palo Alto Firewall, all the malicious things have been stopped from coming into our environment.

It has improved our clients' organizations because previously the clients did not have the option to fully connect. In this solution, they have the opportunity to add services to their web page and book clients.

This solution not only provides better security than flat VLAN segments but allows easy movement throughout the lifecycle of the server.

We would like to have the processing power to be enhanced with every new CPU so that we are getting more cores. Palo Alto is incorporating this. 

We are requesting now a new firewall that will come in with higher power, i.e. the 5220.

I'm writing this review because it's a great product and I think it's ranked much too low on the review ratings. One of the things I really like about it is that we have the same features and functions available on the entry-level device (PA-220), as do large corporations with much more costly appliances.

With all the bells and whistles turned on, I can block access to websites based on their location (country), content, or other criteria. The reporting is really useful and shows me the most frequently used applications, and provides me with great visibility as to what my network users are doing on the internet. With this firewall in place, I can finally enforce the variety of acceptable use policies which have existed only on paper. 

Nowadays, because of the pandemic, everyone is working from home or users are not sitting in the office to work. So, security has become a challenge. For that, we provide GlobalProtect, which is a VPN solution. This will connect to your organization's network, and then you can access anything that is required. This is the most widely used tool that we provide, and it is used worldwide. During the pandemic, it was a massive success for us.

Palo Alto NGFW provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities which is really important from the end customer point of view. If I have to set up an organization, I will go ahead and buy different devices or platforms. However, if I go ahead and buy Next-Generation Firewalls and put them on the edge of the network where I connect with ISPs, my Next-Generation Firewalls will take care of the security parameters. I don't need to worry about it that much anymore.

One of the points that helped us win the tender is that Palo Alto NG Firewalls embed machine learning in the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention. The customer's security team was asking for this feature from the firewalls because machine learning makes things much easier than manually sitting there with some kind of SIEM and searching for all kinds of attacks and critical issues. The machine learning is really helpful because it's doing the work automatically.

It allowed us to evaluate traffic in the customer environment by providing detailed reporting on the traffic and applications.

We are an implementation partner for Palo Alto. One of the companies we implemented its Next-Generation Firewalls for was previously using Barracuda. A ransomware attack happened and they lost all their backup data, and their configuration. Once we implemented Palo Alto for them, there were similar attacks but they were blocked.

Along with Prisma, it helps in preventing a lot of attacks, especially Zero-day attacks.

We have found that this solution has improved not only the level of security that is in place, but also reduced the amount of operational time needed for us to handle cloud-based security.

The solution helped us stop being policemen to our users. We don't have to run around telling people they can't do certain things. We can just not allow it and walk away from it. We're not out there seeing who is doing what, we just don't allow the what.

In addition to our environment being secure, we can monitor compliance of VPN users. Security and monitoring are the two big benefits.

It's also very critical for us that it provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities. We have multiple vendors and multiple solutions. Palo Alto has to work with them. For example, when it comes to authentication, we can integrate LDAP and RADIUS, among others. And in one of our customer's environments, we have integrated a new, passwordless authentication.

I like to install Palo Alto mainly on the data center side to have visibility and protection into the network because we can configure the SVI (layer 3) on Palo Alto instead of the core switch.

It gives us full visibility and protection for the core of the network.

The firewall is a security device. We use this solution to create policies like ISPs for a specific purpose. We only allow the policies for a particular application, so this is a way for the firewall to secure an unwanted connection.

The Global Protect Feature has allowed our organization to support our remote workforce. 

We have a lot of confidence in this solution.

Palo Alto has improved traffic visibility, and the ability to manage it. With Palo Alto, we have more flexibility and our network is more secure. With our High availability pair, we have had no downtime for several years, since it was first put it in production. We have even changed boxes for new models during this time.

This solution has helped our organization by protecting the perimeter of our network from both internal and external threats.

Functional and very futureproof but a bit hard to manage, and the worst thing is that it takes almost 20 mins to boot up, and to commit a config takes half that time.

Mostly it's improved the security side. There was no security before, and we were looking for a solution that could give us the exact capacity to do all the configurations that we need, while also providing a high level of security. 

We standardized on the product and got rid of several other types of firewalls from different vendors.

I have to support many vendors. We are a system integrator.