Description

Palo Alto Networks PA-3000 Series

Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Firewall PA-3060
High-Speed Internet Gateway Deployments within Large Branch Offices and Medium-Sized Enterprises

 

Palo Alto Networks PA-3060 Firewall Overview:

The Palo Alto Networks PA-3060 Firewall series is comprised of three high-performance platforms, the Palo Alto Networks PA-3060 Firewall, the PA-3050 and the PA-3020, which are targeted at high-speed Internet gateway deployments. The PA-3000 Series manages network traffic flows using dedicated processing and memory for networking, security, threat prevention and management.

The controlling element of the Palo Alto Networks PA-3060 Firewall Series is PAN-OS™, a security-specific operating system that natively classifies all traffic, inclusive of applications, threats, and content, then ties that traffic to the user, regardless of location or device type. The application, content, and user—in other words, the business elements that run your business—are then used as the basis of your security policies, resulting in an improved security posture and a reduction in incident response time.

Classify all applications, on all port, all the time with App-ID.

• Identify the application, regardless of port, encryption (SSL or SSH) or evasive technique employed.
• Use the application, not the port, as the basis for all safe enablement policy decisions: allow, deny, schedule, inspect, apply traffic shaping.
• Categorize unidentified applications for policy control, threat forensics, custom App-ID creation, or packet capture for App-ID development.

Extend safe application enablement policies to any user, at any location, with User-ID and GlobalProtect.

• Agentless integration with Active Directory, LDAP, eDirectory Citrix and Microsoft Terminal Services.
• Easily integrate firewall policies with NAC, 802.1X wireless, Proxies and NAC solutions.
• Deploy consistent policies to local and remote users running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android or iOS platforms.

Protect against all threat—both known and unknown—with Content-ID and Wildfire

• Block a range of known threats including exploits, malware, and spyware, across all ports, regardless of common threat evasion tactics employed.
• Limit unauthorized transfer of files and sensitive data, and control non-work-related web surfing.
• Identify unknown malware, analyze for more than 230 malicious behaviors, automatically create and deliver a signature in the next available update.

Safely enable applications, users, and content at throughput speeds of up to 4 Gbps using the Palo Alto Networks PA-3060 Firewall, PA-3050 or the PA-3020. All three appliances deliver predictable, multi-Gbps performance via dedicated, function-specific processing for networking, security, content inspection, and management.

Palo Alto Networks PA-3060 Firewall Features:

Palo Alto Networks PA-3060 Firewall Security Features

• Application Visibility
  Port numbers, protocols, and IP addresses are useful for network devices, but they tell you nothing about what is on your network. Detailed information about the applications, users, and content traversing your network empowers you to quickly determine any risks they pose and quickly respond. Leveraging the rich context provided by Palo Alto Networks firewalls, our visualization, analysis, and reporting tools let you quickly learn more about activity on your network and analyze incidents from a current or comparative perspective.
• User Visibility – An integral component for secure application enablement policies.
  Traditionally, security policies were applied based on IP addresses, but the increasingly dynamic nature of users and applications mean that IP addresses alone have become ineffective as a policy control element for safe application enablement. Our next-generation firewalls integrate with a wide range of enterprise directories and terminal services offerings, allowing you to:
  • See who is using the applications on your network
  • Set policy based on users
  • Perform forensic analysis and generate reports on user activities
• AntiVirus – Network-based Malware Protection.
  The broadening use of social media, messaging and other non-work related applications introduce a variety of vectors for viruses, spyware, worms and other types of malware. Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls allow you to block unwanted applications with App-ID, and then scan allowed applications for malware.
• IPS
  Today’s attacks on your network use a combination of application vectors and exploits. Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls arm you with a two-pronged approach to stopping these attacks. Unwanted applications are blocked through App-ID, and the applications you choose to allow through are scanned for vulnerability exploits by our NSS-approved IPS engine.
• Data Filtering & File Blocking
  The application function level control, file blocking by type, and data filtering features of our next-generation firewalls allow you to implement a range of policies that help balance permitting the use of personal or non-work related applications, with the business and security risks of unauthorized file and data transfer.
• Modern Malware Protection – WildFire: Protection from targeted and unknown threats.
  Modern attackers are increasingly using targeted and new unknown variants of malware to sneak past traditional security solutions. To address this, Palo Alto Networks developed WildFire, which identifies new malware in minutes. By executing suspect files in a virtual environment and observing their behavior, Palo Alto Networks identifies malware quickly and accurately, even if the malware sample has never been seen before. Once a file is deemed malicious, WildFire automatically generates protections that are delivered to all WildFire subscribers within an hour of detection. A WildFire license provides your IT team with a wealth of forensics to see exactly who was targeted, the application used in the delivery, and any URLs that were part of the attack.
• URL Filtering – Control Web Activity with URL Filtering.
  The perfect complement to the policy-based application control provided by App-ID is our on-box URL filtering database, which gives you total control over related web activity. By addressing your lack of visibility and control from both an application and web perspective, App-ID and URL Filtering together protect you from a full spectrum of legal, regulatory, productivity, and resource utilization risks.
• Mobile Security
  Mobile computing is one of the most disruptive forces in information technology. It is revolutionizing how and where employees work, as well as the tools they use to perform their jobs. Mobile devices are not just ways to access existing applications such as corporate email, but the platform for opening up entirely new ways of doing business. Make sure that you have the proper security to extend your business applications and data to smartphones, tablets and laptops. Learn how to safely enable mobile devices by using GlobalProtect from Palo Alto Networks.

Palo Alto Networks PA-3060 Firewall Networking Features

• Decryption – Identify & Control Encrypted Traffic.
  Take control of your SSL and SSH encrypted traffic and ensure it is not being used to conceal unwanted activity or dangerous content. Using policy-based decryption and inspection, you can confirm that SSL and SSH are being used for business purposes only, instead of to spread threats or unauthorized data transfer.
• IPv6 – Safely enabling applications, users and content in IPv6 environments.
  Our next-generation firewalls allow you to deploy consistent, safe application enablement policies across IPv6, IPv4 and mixed environments.
• Networking
  Our flexible networking architecture includes dynamic routing, switching, and VPN connectivity, which enables you to easily deploy Palo Alto Networks PA-3060 Firewall into nearly any networking environment.
• VPN – Standards-based VPN Connectivity.
  Secure site-to-site and remote user connectivity is a critical infrastructure component. Every Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall platform allows you to easily and securely communicate between sites using standards-based IPSec VPN connections. Remote user communications are protected through a rich set of VPN features.
• Virtualization Security
  The VM-Series supports the exact same next-generation firewall and advanced threat prevention features available in our physical form factor appliances, allowing you to safely enable applications flowing into, and across your private, public and hybrid cloud computing environments. Automation features and an API enable you to dynamically update security policies as your VM environment changes, eliminating potential security lag. The VM-Series supports the following hypervisors: VMWare ESXi and NSX, Citrix SDX, KVM (Centos/RHEL), Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services.

Palo Alto Networks PA-3060 Firewall Management Features

• Centralized Management
  The centralized management features in Panorama will minimize the administrative efforts and operational costs associated with your deployment of our next-generation firewalls in multiple locations – either internally or globally. Panorama allows your team to centrally manage all device aspects including configuration and policy deployment, visibility into applications, users and content as well as logging and reporting.
• Device Management
  Our firewall management philosophy is to make administrative tasks such as report generation, log queries, policy creation, and ACC browsing easy to execute and consistent, no matter which mechanism – web interface, Panorama, CLI or API – you use.
• Policy Control – Secure Application Enablement.
  The increased visibility into applications, users and content delivered by Palo Alto Networks simplifies figuring out which applications are traversing your network, who is using them, and the potential security risks. Armed with this data, you can apply secure enablement policies with a range of responses that are more finely tuned than the traditional ‘allow or deny’ approach.
• Redundancy
  Palo Alto Networks PA-3060 next-generation firewalls support a series of redundancy and resiliency features that ensure your firewall will continue to provide the secure application enablement you need to keep your business running.
• Virtual Systems – Scalable Firewall Services With Virtual Systems.
  Virtual systems are unique and distinct next-generation firewall instances within a single Palo Alto Networks firewall. Instead of deploying many individual firewalls, security service providers and enterprises can deploy a single pair of firewalls (high availability) and enable a series of virtual firewall instances (virtual systems). Each virtual system is an independent (virtual) firewall within your firewall that is managed separately and cannot be accessed or viewed by other users.