Milestone is proud to announce our newest product partner: Palo Alto Networks™, designer & maker of a truly "next generation" firewall for enterprise networks.
- User-based visibility and quality-of-service policy control of applications and content running on enterprise networks.
- Based on patent-pending App-ID™ technology, Palo Alto Networks firewalls accurately identify applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption – and scan content to stop a broad range of threats and prevent data leakage at 10Gbps with no performance degradation.
Your enterprise can now embrace the world of Web 2.0 applications in a manner that is safe for the business and your users, while offering significantly lower total cost of ownership through device consolidation.
What's New About Palo Alto's Approach
Traditional “port blocking” firewalls are unable to identify or effectively control any of these Internet applications. That’s because legacy firewalls classify traffic based only on ports and protocols. For example, most web traffic would be identified as simply HTTP coming through Port 80, with no information on the specific applications associated with that port and protocol.
And this problem is not limited to Port 80. Internet applications are increasingly using encrypted SSL tunnels on Port 443, and use clever evasive tactics to disguise themselves or use port-hopping to find any entry point through the firewall. Again, legacy firewalls cannot see or control any of that traffic.
For all of these reasons, port blocking firewalls are no longer an effective security solution to manage the risks and rewards of today’s Internet applications in the enterprise. This is not surprising since firewalls have changed very little over the last 15 years.
Your IT organization may have tried to compensate for firewall deficiencies by surrounding them with proxies, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), URL filtering and other costly and complex devices -- but overall, this can be a more effective solution against today’s application and threat landscape.
It is time to fix the underlying problem. Palo Alto Networks and Milestone Systems believe it’s time to fix the firewall.
Palo Alto Networks Firewall Highlights
- The only firewall to classify traffic based on the accurate identification of the application, regardless of port, protocol, or evasive tactic.
- The only firewall to identify, control and inspect SSL encrypted traffic and applications.
- The only firewall that provides policy-based QoS traffic shaping by application and user, enabling organizations to control performance of business and personal applications on the network.
- The only firewall with real-time content scanning to protect against viruses, spyware, data leakage and application vulnerabilities based on a stream-based threat prevention engine.
- The only firewall that can scan content for social security and credit card numbers, to help prevent leakage of sensitive data and support PCI compliance.
- The only firewall to provide graphical visualization of network applications with detailed user, group and network-level data categorized by sessions, bytes, ports, threats and time.
- The only firewall with line-rate, low-latency performance for all services, even under load.
Are you ready to fix the firewall? Call Milestone for a demo of how the Palo Alto firewall works, or an evaluation of the Palo Alto equipment in your own enterprise.
Milestone Systems is an authorized integrator of Palo Alto Networks, offering thought leadership, installation, integration, training, and support services.
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