Palo Alto Networks PA-5445
Compact, high-performing security for data centers and campus locations

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; 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 (SSL/TLS). In addition, it automatically discovers and controls new applications to keep pace with the SaaS explosion with 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 the application (e.g., files and data patterns) to block malicious files and thwart data 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.

Enforces Security for Users at Any Location, on Any Device, While Adapting Policy Based on User Activity

• Enables visibility, security policies, reporting, and forensics based on users and groups—not just IP addresses.
• Easily integrates with a wide range of repositories to leverage user information: wireless LAN controllers, VPNs, directory servers, SIEMs, proxies, and more.
• Allows you to define Dynamic User Groups (DUGs) on the firewall to take time-bound security actions without waiting for changes to be applied to user directories.
• Applies consistent policies irrespective of users’ locations (office, home, travel, etc.) and devices (iOS and Android mobile devices; macOS, Windows, and Linux desktops and laptops; Citrix and Microsoft VDI; and terminal servers).
• Prevents corporate credentials from leaking to third-party websites and prevents reuse of stolen credentials by enabling multifactor authentication (MFA) at the network layer for any application without any application changes.
• Provides dynamic security actions based on user behavior to restrict suspicious or malicious users.
• Consistently authenticates and authorizes your users, regardless of location and where user identity stores live, to move quickly toward a Zero Trust security posture with Cloud Identity Engine—an entirely new cloud-based architecture for identity-based security.

Enables SD-WAN Functionality

• Allows you to easily adopt SD-WAN by simply enabling it on your existing firewalls.
• Enables you to safely implement SD-WAN, which is natively integrated with our industryleading security.
• Delivers an exceptional end-user experience by minimizing latency, jitter, and packet loss.

Prevents malicious activity concealed in encrypted traffic

• Inspects and applies policy to SSL/TLS-encrypted traffic, both inbound and outbound, including for traffic that uses TLSv1.3 and HTTP/2.
• Offers rich visibility into TLS traffic, such as amount of encrypted traffic, SSL/TLS versions, cipher suites, and more, without decrypting.
• Enables control over use of legacy TLS protocols, insecure ciphers, and misconfigured certificates to mitigate risks.
• Facilitates easy deployment of decryption and lets you use built-in logs to troubleshoot issues, such as applications with pinned certificates.
• Lets you enable or disable decryption flexibly based on URL category, source and destination zone, address, user, user group, device, and port, for privacy and regulatory compliance purposes.
• Allows you to create a copy of decrypted traffic from the firewall (i.e., decryption mirroring) and send it to traffic collection tools for forensics, historical purposes, or data loss prevention (DLP).
• Allows you to intelligently forward all traffic (decrypted TLS, undecrypted TLS, and non-TLS) to third-party security tools with network packet broker and optimize your network performance and reduce operating expenses.

Offers AI-Powered Unified Management and Operations with Strata Cloud Manager

Prevent network disruptions: Forecast deployment health and proactively identify capacity bottlenecks up to seven days in advance with predictive analytics to proactively prevent operational disruptions.

Strengthen security in real time: AI-powered analysis of policies and real-time compliance checks against industry and Palo Alto Networks best practices.

Enable simple and consistent network security management and ops: Manage configuration and security policies across all form factors, including SASE, hardware and software firewalls, and all security services to ensure consistency and reduce operational overhead.

Native Web Proxy Support for the Next-Generation Firewall

• Ability to consolidate firewall and proxy into a single platform while managing capabilities through a centralized management platform to build policies.
• Ability to support explicit proxy through PAC files and also transparent proxy.
• Explicit proxy can help with no-default route architectures with on-premises proxy deployments.
• Explicit proxy supports authentication with Kerberos and SAML.
• Transparent proxy setup is simplified without the need for WCCP or authentication.

Delivers a Unique Approach to Packet Processing with Single-Pass Architecture

• Performs networking, policy lookup, application and decoding, and signature matching—for all threats and content—in a single pass. This significantly reduces the amount of processing overhead required to perform multiple functions in one security device.
• Avoids introducing latency by scanning traffic for all signatures in a single pass, using stream-based, uniform signature matching.
• Enables consistent and predictable performance when security subscriptions are enabled. (In table 1, “Threat Prevention throughput” is measured with multiple subscriptions enabled.)