Overview:
Palo Alto Networks PA-5400 Series ML-Powered NGFWs—comprising the PA-5430, PA-5420, and PA-5410—are ideal for high-speed data center, internet gateway, and service provider deployments. The PA-5400 Series appliances secure all traffic, including encrypted traffic. The world’s first ML-Powered Next-Generation Firewall (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-5400 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 time. The PA-5410, PA-5420, and PA-5430 firewalls provide flexibility in performance and redundancy to adapt to your deployment requirements. These models can use either AC or DC power. Dedicated computing and hardware resources ensure predictable performance in networking, security, signature matching, and management functions.
Highlights
- World’s first ML-Powered NGFW.
- 10-time Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls.
- Leader in the Forrester Wave: Enterprise Firewalls, Q3 2020.
- Highest Security Effectiveness score in the 2019 NSS Labs NGFW Test Report, with 100% of evasions blocked.
- Delivers 5G-native security built to safeguard service provider and enterprise 5G transformation and multi-access edge computing (MEC).
- Extends visibility and security to all devices, including unmanaged IoT devices, without the need to deploy additional sensors.
- Supports high availability with active/ active and active/passive modes.
- Delivers predictable performance with security services.
- Supports centralized administration with Panorama network security management.
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.
Detects and Prevents Advanced Threats with Cloud-Delivered Security Services
Today’s sophisticated cyberattacks can spawn 45,000 variants in 30 minutes using multiple threat vectors and advanced techniques to deliver malicious payloads. Traditional siloed security causes challenges for organizations by introducing security gaps, increasing overhead for security teams, and hindering business productivity with inconsistent access and visibility. Seamlessly integrated with our industry-leading NGFWs, our Cloud-Delivered Security Services use the network effect of 80,000 customers to instantly coordinate intelligence and protect against all threats across all vectors. Eliminate coverage gaps across your locations and take advantage of best‑in-class security delivered consistently in a platform to stay safe from even the most advanced and evasive threats.
Services Include:
- Threat Prevention — Disrupts threats at every stage of the attack lifecycle, with the industry’s leading intrusion prevention system (IPS) with the highest security efficacy.
- Advanced Threat Prevention — Extends the industry’s best-in-class IPS to block up to 50% more previously unknown evasive command-and-control traffic inline with unique deep learning and machine learning models.
- WildFire malware prevention service — Ensures files are safe by automatically detecting and preventing unknown malware with industry-leading cloud-based analysis.
- Advanced URL Filtering — Enables the safe use of the internet by preventing access to known and new malicious websites before your users can visit them.
- DNS Security — Disrupts attacks that use DNS for command and control and data theft without requiring any changes to your infrastructure.
- IoT Security — Provides the industry’s most comprehensive IoT security solution, delivering ML-powered visibility, prevention, and enforcement in a single platform.
- Enterprise DLP — Minimizes data breach risks by identifying sensitive data consistently throughout the entire enterprise and preventing unsafe transfers and corporate policy violations.
- SaaS Security — Next-Generation cloud access security broker (CASB) sees and secures all SaaS applications automatically, ensuring you stay ahead of the app explosion.
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)
- 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 pro- prietary 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 exfil- tration 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.
Offers Centralized Management and Visibility
- Benefits from centralized management, configuration, and visibility for multiple distributed Palo Alto Networks NGFWs (irrespective of location or scale) through Panorama network security management in one unified user interface.
- Streamlines configuration sharing through Panorama with templates and device groups and scales log collection as logging needs increase.
- Enables users, through the Application Command Center (ACC), to obtain deep visibility and comprehensive insights into network traffic and threats.
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 industry-leading 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 TLS/SSL-encrypted traffic, both inbound and outbound, including for traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and HTTP/2.
- Offers rich visibility into TLS traffic, such as amount of encrypted traffic, TLS/SSL 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 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).
Maximize Your Security Investment and Prevent Business Disruption with AIOps
- AIOps for NGFW delivers continuous best practice recommendations customized to your unique deployment to strengthen your security posture and get the most out of your security investment.
- Intelligently predicts firewall health, performance and capacity problems based on ML powered by advanced telemetry data. It also provides actionable insights to resolve the predicted disruptions
Delivers a unique approach to packet processing with Single-Pass Architecture
- Performs networking, policy lookup, application and de- coding, and signature matching—for all threats and con- tent—in a single pass. This significantly reduces the amount of processing overhead required to perform multi- ple functions in one security device.
- Avoids introducing latency by scanning traffic for all signa- tures in a single pass, using stream-based, uniform signa- ture matching.
- Enables consistent and predictable performance when security subscriptions are enabled. (In Table 1, “Threat Prevention throughput” is measured with multiple sub- scriptions enabled.)
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 lever- age 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 wait- ing 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, Linux desktops, lap- tops; Citrix and Microsoft VDI and Terminal Servers).
- Prevents corporate credentials from leaking to third-party websites and prevents reuse of stolen credentials by enabling multi-factor 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 quickly move towards a Zero Trust security posture with Cloud Identity Engine—an entirely new cloud-based architecture for identity-based security.
