Engineers fix the shortcomings of the traditional firewall

09.10.2009

They set out to design a single firewall appliance to address three business problems:

1. Identify and control applications, including enabling applications that can be productive to the business.

2. Prevent threats from harming the network.

3. Simplify the security infrastructure.

The Palo Alto firewall uses a unique single-pass process for traffic classification, user/group mapping and content scanning. Three technologies embedded into one appliance eliminate the need for bolt-on products: