Palo Alto Networks has received Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization from the Department of Defense for its Prisma Access firewall as a service. The provisional IL5 allows defense organizations to use Prisma in implementing zero trust cybersecurity strategy, the company said Wednesday. Prisma Access is designed to provide next-generation firewall and domain name system security, […] More

Palo Alto Networks has unveiled new purpose-built hardware and virtual firewall appliances that work to offer threat prevention and SSL decryption functions in efforts to prevent cyber attacks across cloud, endpoint and network environments. The company said Tuesday the new appliances support the release of the updated Next-Generation Security Platform with more than 70 new security features. Palo Alto […] More

Palo Alto Networks has integrated its virtualized firewalls with the auto scaling and elastic load balancing platforms of Amazon Web Services in an effort to help joint customers secure their workloads. The companies seek to help clients automatically scale cyber breach prevention tools as their cloud-based workloads fluctuate through the use of VM-Series firewalls in conjunction with AWS Lambda, CloudFormation Templates and Amazon CloudWatch services, Palo […] More

Enterprises have adopted network firewalls as part of their security stacks in order to build a first line of defense from the perimeter, Computer World reported Mar. 5. Jaikumar Vijayan writes that instead of succumbing to newer technologies, network firewalls have evolved to offer relevant capabilities against the rapidly changing threat landscape. Phil Cummings, security […] More