Marketing Information: The Palo Alto Networks PA-400 Series NextGeneration Firewalls (NGFWs), comprising the PA-410, PA-415, PA-415-5G, PA-440, PA-445, PA-450, PA-455, and PA-460, bring ML-Powered NGFW capabilities to distributed enterprise branch offices, retail locations, and midsize businesses.
The world's first ML-Powered NGFW enables you to prevent unknown threats, see and secure everything-including the internet of things (IoT)-and reduce errors with automatic policy recommendations.
The controlling element of the PA-400 Series is PAN-OS®, the same software that runs all Palo Alto Networks NGFWs. PAN-OS natively classifies all traffic, inclusive of applications, threats, and content, and then ties that traffic to the user regardless of location or device type. The application, content, and user-in other words, the elements that run your business-then serve as the basis of your security policies, resulting in improved security posture and reduced incident response times.
Key Security and Connectivity Features | ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall
- Embeds machine learning (ML) in the core of the firewall to provide inline signatureless attack prevention for file-based attacks while identifying and immediately stopping never-before-seen phishing attempts
- Leverages cloud-based ML processes to push zero-delay signatures and instructions back to the NGFW.
- Uses behavioral analysis to detect IoT devices and make policy recommendations as part of a cloud-delivered and natively integrated service on the NGFW.
- Automates policy recommendations that save time and reduce the chance of human error.
Identifies and Categorizes All Applications, on All Ports, All the Time, with Full Layer 7 Inspection
- Identifies the applications traversing your network irrespective of port, protocol, evasive techniques, or encryption (TLS/SSL). In addition, it automatically discovers and controls new applications to keep pace with the SaaS explosion with a SaaS Security subscription.
- Uses the application, not the port, as the basis for all your safe enablement policy decisions: allow, deny, schedule, inspect, and apply traffic-shaping.
- Offers the ability to create custom App-ID tags for proprietary applications or request App-ID development for new applications from Palo Alto Networks.
- Identifies all payload data within an application (e.g., files and data patterns) to block malicious files and thwart exfiltration attempts.
- Creates standard and customized application usage reports, including software-as-a-service (SaaS) reports that provide insight into all sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS traffic on your network.
- Enables safe migration of legacy Layer 4 rule sets to App-ID-based rules with built-in Policy Optimizer, giving you a rule set that is more secure and easier to manage.
